Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
Paced by the key first year cardboard of Mario Lemieux, the only player capable of holding a candle to Wayne Gretzky during the era, up for grabs here is this complete 264-card assembly of O-Pee-Chee’s 1985-86 hockey release that is also joined by a complete assembly of the 16 box bottoms cards and the 33 Topps stickers as well. Starting with the O-Pee-Chee main set, the group is found to be in an overall condition range of EX-MT to NM in our opinions after inspection with some of the cards having small amounts of light corner wear worth mentioning for accuracy. For the key cards that grace the checklist, the aforementioned first-year cardboard of Lemieux, card #9 in the set, falls into the range of VG-EX to EX with light corner wear being observed to all four (4) points. With Mario's Rookie Scoring Leaders card found to be better off and in the higher-grade condition neighbourhood of EX-MT to NM for its effort, an additional copy is included as well as seen as being in the scope of EX-MT with a tiny bump along the top border. Also featuring EX-MT to NM rookie examples of 122-Hrudey and 210-Iafrate, card #120 of "The Great One", Wayne Gretzky falls into the same EX-MT to NM neighbourhood as well, along with card #29 of Steve Yzerman, his 2nd year example. Of note, an additional copy of Stevie-Y's card is included and appears discoloured and possibly altered. With the set's notables rounded out by a VG-EX to EX rookie card of Al MacInnis that has light border dents all the way around, the box bottom cards, all having been hand cut, include a VG-EX to EX example of Wayne Gretzky (small corner ding at the bottom left and surface wear) as well as GOOD condition vicinity specimen of the set's key rookie, Mario Lemieux, that has a small crease. Finally, for the Topps sticker set, Gretzky's sticker is seen as being in the scope of EX-MT to NM shape. With the other star players in a condition that is consistent with the rest of the set, a fabulous trip down memory lane featuring examples of some of the best players to ever lace up the skates in the NHL awaits out lucky winning bidder!
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