A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
Original pencil signatures from Cooney Weiland, Bill Cowley, Ray Getliffe, Art Ross, Jack Portland, Gordon Pettinger and Tiny Thompson anchor this stylish Boston Bruins framed display. These seven Bruins standouts - Weiland, Cowley, Ross and Thompson are all in the Hall of Fame - signed one after the other on this cut lined page at Maple Leaf Gardens on November 2, 1938, as indicated in the hand printed notation on the right side of the autograph sheet that is creased vertically through the middle. It would prove to be one of the last autographs Thompson signed as a member of the Bruins, who traded the future Hall-of-Famer to Detroit two weeks later as Frank Brimsek took hold of Boston's crease to begin a Hall of Fame career of his own. Weiland, Cowley, Getliffe, Ross, Portland and Pettinger were all on hand when the Bruins won their second Stanley Cup in the spring of 1939. A retro Bruins patch is mounted on light blue matte that matches the thread color of the bruin embroidered in the middle of the logo. The montage is presented in a yellow and burgundy double matte and it is tastefully presented in a 16 1/2" x 13 1/2" simple wood frame.
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