Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction September 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/19/2023
Perhaps the most beautiful hockey card set ever released and the sophomore issue to Imperial Tobacco’s landmark C56 hockey card release and highlighted by the coveted rookie card of the legendary Georges Vezina, the card serves as one of the hobby’s most cherished cardboard treasures to this day. Offered here in complete form glory, is this assembly of Imperial Tobacco's C55 1911-12 hockey card release. Starting with the set's key rookie card of Vezina, the card, recently submitted to the graders at PSA, has come back as "Altered" and is being offered as-is while a group of nineteen (19) PSA graded offerings paces the set of 46 including the cards of 20-Taylor (PSA VG 3), 31-Ross (PSA VG-EX 4), 32-Hern (PSA EX-MT 6), 1-Moran (PSA VG-EX 4), 42-Lalonde (PSA VG 3), 5-Oatman (PSA VG-EX+ 4.5), 6-Dunderdale (PSA VG-EX 4), 10-Kerr (PSA VG-EX 4), 23-Rowe (PSA EX 5), 4-Malone (PSA VG-EX 4), 16-LeSueur (PSA VG 3), 2-Joe Hall (PSA GOOD+ 2.5), 11-Walsh (PSA VG-EX 4), 15-Stuart (PSA VG-EX 4), 17-Darragh (PSA VG+ 3.5), 24-Cleghorn (PSA VG-EX+ 4.5), 27-Smaill (Right Hand on Stick / PSA EX 5), 29-Marshall (PSA VG+ 3.5) and 35-Russell (PSA EX 5). Additionally, the set includes three (3) KSA slabbed examples including those of 30-Hyland (KSA EX 5), 36-Gardner (KSA EX 5) and 45-Laviolette (KSA EX 5). For the raw cards featured within the set, those in the grade range of VG-EX to EX include 18-Wair and 19-Smith, the pair is followed up by VG-EX scope cards of 12-Shore, 13-Currie, 14-Ridpath (mark on stick), 26-Ronan and 34-Glass, VG examples of 3-Holden, 7-Mallen, 9-Lake, 21-Lindsay, 40-Power, 43-Payan and 44-Poulin, the cards of 27-Smaill (Hand on Hip) and 39-Dallaire are in the range of G to VG with both cards sporting a crease while card #41 of Didier Pitre is around GOOD but has glue residue and damage on the reverse. Finally, a group of six (6) cards that are housed in screw down holders from North American Sports Card Authenticators including the cardboard of 8-MacDonald (Some chipping to both upper corners), 22-Gilmour (Some chipping to three of its corners), 25-O. Cleghorn (Damage to the upper left corner), 28-Johnson (Has a crease or a small tear on the right edge of the card at the height or Johnson's ear), 33-Roberts (Chipping to both upper corners and has a deep scratch in the middle of the sweater going into the team's crest) and 37-Bernier (Chipping to both upper corners and on a small portion of the top edge). While none of these cards appear to have been trimmed, they are being sold as-is and without approximate grades.
It must be noted that the grading standards followed by KSA and NASA may not correspond to those currently employed by PSA, BGS or SGC. The outcome of an attempted cross-over of these pieces through any of those services, then, would be uncertain and cannot be guaranteed.
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