Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/25/2024
Hailing from years that saw the Ottawa Rough Riders (1968 - over Calgary) and Calgary Stampeders (1971 - over Montreal) win Grey Cups as champions of the Canadian Football League, offered here is this lot featuring a bevy of complete O-Pee-Chee CFL Mini-Poster sets (one from 1968 plus 16 extras and two sets from 1971).
Starting with the earlier 1968 O-Pee-Chee CFL Mini-Poster offerings, inserted in packs of 1968 OPC football cards, which are considered by some hobby experts as a test issue with limited distribution (southern Ontario), these little pin-up posters measure 5” by 7” and were folded twice so as to fit in the wax packs. The complete set of 16 are here which includes Ron Lancaster, Dave Raimey, George Reed, Peter Liske, Wally Gabler, Carroll Williams, Tommy Joe Coffey, Margene Adkins, Jim Young, Ken Nielsen, Terry Evanshen, Frank Cosentino, Dave Mann, Larry Fairholm, Joe Zuger, and Russ Jackson. For the extras, included are additional examples of Raimey (x2), Mann (x3 - one with a crease and pasted on an additional blank sheet and one with a small tear), Lancaster (x2), Liske (x2 - one with a crease), Fairholm (x2), Zuger, Jackson (x2 - one with a couple of small tears along the fold lines) and Reed (x2 - one with uneven toning and a small hole at the top). In terms of condition, all the ones making up the complete set remain in overall excellent condition with even moderate toning throughout along with very light edge and corner wear plus the expected fold lines while the extras are in similar condition except for exceptions listed above.
For the 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL Mini-Poster's, once again consisting of sixteen (16) different players, all of whom were Canadian Football League all-stars which were inserted one (1) per pack, the posters once again measure 5” by 7” and were folded twice so as to fit in the wax packs that they came in. Including two (2) complete sets, found within them are the likes of Tommy Joe Coffey, Herman Harrison, Bill Frank, Ellison Kelly, Charlie Bray, Bill Danychuk, Ron Lancaster, Bill Symons, Steve Smear, Angelo Mosca, Wayne Harris, Greg Findlay, John Wydareny, Garney Henley, Al Phaneuf and Ed Harrington. In terms of condition, all show the expected fold lines while varying degrees of fading are found throughout both sets as well as light and to be expected edge plus corner wear. Additionally, one of the examples picturing Charlie Bray over the front shows some minor creasing, a small tear and a pair of light tape marks on the reverse while each poster in both sets shows varying minor pin/staple hole(s) that are worthy of mention for accuracy.
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