Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
Hailing from an era of hockey when Wayne Gretzky was starting his sheer domination of the National Hockey League, up for grabs here is this collection of two (2) early-1980s O-Pee-Chee releases from 1981-82 and 1982-83 with both complete and consisting of 396-cards each. Starting with the 1981-82 release, appearing in an overall uniform condition range of EX to EX-MT, the set is paced by rookie cards including those of 63-Savard (VG-EX to EX - off-center and light discolouration), 107-Kurri (G to VG - off-center and a corner crease), 108-Anderson (EX - print line on reverse), 111-Coffey (EX - light corner wear and 60-40 centering), 117-Lowe (EX to EX-MT), 120-Moog (EX - light border wear), 148-Murphy (VG-EX to EX), 161-Ciccarelli (EX to EX-MT), 269-Stastny (EX to EX-MT) and 277-Hunter (VG-EX to EX - light corner wear). Also including numerous cards of Wayne Gretzky in its checklist, cardboard picturing "The Great One" includes #'s 106-Gretzky (EX to EX-MT - slight corner wear) and 125-Gretzky Super Action (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear) while the card of Ray Bourque, the set's lead off card is around VG-EX to EX and sports 90-10 centering. Of note, extra copies of Gretzky cards #106 and #125 are included and display in the neighbourhoods of G (small faint crease at the top as well as top right corner wear/damage) and G to VG (corner wear) respectively. With all three checklist cards unmarked, the other stars featured in the checklist are in a condition that is consistent with the rest of the set.
For the 1982-83 set, a high-grade offering found to be in the overall uniform condition range of EX-MT to NM for its effort, the contingent of rookie cards includes the likes of 105-Fuhr in the top end EX-MT to NM condition and 123-Francis (slight corner wear) plus 307-Mullen (tiny top left corner ding) a bit worse off at EX to EX-MT. Additionally, an additional copy of Fuhr's rookie card is also included and found to be in the scope of EX to EX-MT shape with slight corner wear. Featuring a final rookie card of Dale Hawerchuk in the vicinity of VG-EX to EX shape due to a bottom left corner ding, the star cards are lead by EX to EX-MT copies of 106-Gretzky (slight corner wear and 70-30 centering), 107-Gretzky In Action (slight top border wear) and 117-Messier (tiny ding at bottom right corner) and finished of by a VG-EX to EX range copy of card #1, the record breaker card of Gretzky that has corner and top border wear.
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