Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2020
Ready to fill the multiple walls of your collection room, we have an especially large group of Wayne Gretzky items dominated by frames and display pieces, with a number of books, publications, posters and desirable oddball items including rarely seen specimens also present and accounted for. Included, we have approx 35 framed items/display pieces, 65 posters/prints/smaller items, and 45 books/magazines/publications. First, the posters are mostly in the expected size range with a number oversized including examples from Health and Welfare Canada (47” x 67”) and Wallskins (72” x 72”, still sealed in original packaging), with the highlights to include a WHA poster posed with Gordie Howe, A Canada Cup poster, a 1980-81 Oilers poster, 7-Up, Titan, GWG and Neilson advertising posters from the early-1980s, an LA Kings 30th anniversary poster and many more. The advertising pieces include a McDonald’s hockey medallion diecut display from 1997 (15” x 19”, with added poster), a Coca-Cola diecut sports bottle display from the 1990s (13” x 25”), a diecut display with the Stanley Cup advertising the book “Gretzky” (23” x 36”), four huge lifesize cardboard standees (6’) including an example advertising Pepsi and more! The framed pieces include a display with six original mounted 5” x 7” photos of Wayne’s classes from grades 2 to 7 (15” x 18”), a display with 9 mounted photos from Wayne’s wedding in 1988 (19” x 33”) a “Precision in Vision” advertising poster from the 1980s (15” x 22”), a matted and framed “The Snapshot” limited-edition print (11/1000) from 1992 by Allan Hackney (16” x 20”), a display with matted photo of Wayne on his backyard rink at just 7 years-old, a Gulf Oil 1984 Stanley Cup Champions poster (20” x 23”), a rare Gretzky poster from early in his career (16” x 20”) and more! Rounding out the lot, the books/publications include 5 magazines from the 1980s with Gretzky covers including the May 16, 1983 issue of Macleans, Hockey News Yearbooks for 1981 and 1983 with Gretzky covers, the 1983-84 NHL Offical Record Book with Gretzky cover, The Great Gretzky Yearbook, Gretzky: From the Backyard Rink to the Stanley Cup paperback, The Game of Our Lives, “Gretzky” and more! The majority of the poster show wear with the odd example sporting expected pinholes, fold lines, edge wear and creases, with some damage to a few of the larger diecut advertising displays, with most remaining in pleasing, displayable condition. Most of the framed items appear in very good condition, with a number of the frames themselves showing wear.
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