Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2015
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2015
Happy Day and Charlie Conacher are among the members of the Stanley Cup champion 1931-32 Toronto Maple Leafs whose signatures are to be found in this fascinating 1930s autograph booklet. “Toronto Maple Leafs World Champions 1931-32” is written on the left page, and the right page is covered with 15 pencil autographs from the Stanley Cup champions. Day, Conacher and fellow deceased HOFers King Clancy, Red Horner, Ace Bailey, Harvey “Busher” Jackson and Joe Primeau have signed along with goalie Lorne Chabot as well as Sands, Thoms, Gracie, Cotton, Doraty, Levinsky and Blair. The reverse of the team-signed page is blank. Early-1930s IHL team-signed pages include future Stanley Cup champions Russ Blinco and Normie Smith with only a couple of instances of autographs on back-to-back pages.
Inscription inside the cover reads, “From Uncle Bill and Buzz Boll Syracuse Stars 1932-33”.
Russ Blinco, Normie Smith and Jack Arbour are among the 12 members of the 1932-33 IHL Windsor Bulldogs who have signed in fountain pen on the first page. Blinco won the Cup with the 1934-35 Montreal Maroons. Smith was the Detroit Red Wings’ goalie for consecutive Cup wins in 1935-36 and 1936-37. Arbour was a member of the 1926-27 Detroit Cougars, the inaugural NHL season of the Red Wings’ predecessors.
A dozen members of the 1932-33 “Cleveland Hockey Club” of the IHL have signed the next two pages, including goalie Alfie Moore, who won a Stanley Cup final game for Chicago in 1938 as an emergency injury replacement for Mike Karakas.
Another page is covered in pencil signatures from members of the 1932-33 London Hockey Club IHL league champs;
Followed by Buffalo IHL champions 1931-32-33 with 10 pencil and two black ink autographs;
HOFer Frank Nighbor has signed as “Manager Buffalo Bisons” in pencil alone on one page which has five Syracuse Stars pencil autographs on the reverse, including Buzz Boll;
Hal Darragh is among nine Stars pencil autographs on the facing page;
Gordon Pettinger, who won the Stanley Cup with three different NHL in the 1930s, is among 12 black ink autographs from members of the “Pats”; with three autographs on the following page in two different inks;
The Maple Leafs autographs are on the following page and the rest of the booklet has blank pages.
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