The Elmer Lach Auction - October 2006
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2006
Frank Nighbor’s flowing fountain pen signature ends off this intriguing wartime letter on “Behan & Nighbor” insurance company letterhead. The former Ottawa Senators star who was the first winner of both the Hart (‘23-24) and Lady Byng (‘24-25) trophies upon their inception, returned this letter to an autograph seeker, a Mr. Pollard in Amherst, Nova Scotia, mentioning that “the job you Welders are doing by keeping those ships sailing is wonderful.” Wonderful was Nighbor’s career too; he helped the Sens to four Stanley Cup titles in the 1920’s after having played on a Cup winner in Vancouver (1915) with Cyclone Taylor, Si Griffis and Frank Patrick. Nicknamed the Pembroke Peach, he was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947 and died in Pembroke in 1966.
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