Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2021
Cool provenance story on Kirk Muller’s photo-matched signed 1988-89 New Jersey Devils game-worn captain’s jersey. Our consignor states that the jersey was acquired directly from a long-time Devils season ticket holder, who received it as a “shirt-off-their-backs” promotion on-ice following New Jersey’s last game of the season. Muller signed in bold black marker in the middle of the team crest of this beauty with the captain’s C on the left breast. The jersey is photo-matched to a digital action shot from a game against St. Louis where you can clearly see the long loose white thread hanging from the right hip seam. Loads of game wear, including several team repairs on the left elbow, another on the lower left sleeve, two more sewing fixes on the left rear hem and black marks all over the front, back and both sleeves.
There is pilling inside both sleeves and inside the back below the fight strap. The sleeve cuffs may have been customized to tighten/narrow the opening. Washed-out Maska flag tag in the neck is sewn over by nameplate stitching and a long team repair to the green piping on the upper back. We measure this as a size 54. CCM patch is sewn on the right hem and Custom Crafted logo is screened on the left hem. The split collar on the jersey is visible on images/video from the latter part of the 1988-89 season.
According to our consignor: this set of jerseys was given to season ticket holders after the final game of the 1988-89 season, shirt-off-their-backs, Muller scored his 31st goal in the Devils’ 7-4 win against Washington on April 2, 1989. This family got the unwashed and signed Muller jersey presented to them on the ice and I am the second owner. In the video at the end of the final game on April 2, you can see the team leave the ice. Roughly 10 mins later, after commentary and commercial breaks, the players came back on the ice and lined up on the blue line with many fans still in their seats and a red carpet was placed at centre ice. The video then cuts off but it certainly supports that they came back to give away their jerseys. It may also be why jerseys from this home white set from 1988-89 are almost impossible to find. The April 2 game video is pretty grainy so you can't make out any marks on the players jerseys.
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