Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/30/2021
Recognized as the sport’s premier broadcaster and serving as Hockey Night in Canada’s first play-by-play announcer, Foster Hewitt was part of the opening night ceremonies for Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931, and covered NHL contests for forty years. Extremely rare as the first we have ever handled, we have an original Foster Hewitt CBC radio counter-top advertising standee that hails from the glory years of Hockey Night in Canada and the Original Six era in the 1950s. At approx 13” x 16” and on firm cardboard stock with intact easel, a black and white 8” x 10” photo of Hewitt with microphone has been mounted, with “Relax with Radio” above and “Foster Hewitt” below. The terminology “C.B.C. Trans-Canada Network” which appears along the base was used only between 1944 and 1962. Sporting toning along with wear and creases to the corners, a number of small black ink dots have been added to each side, with a pencil notation on the reverse.
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