Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
The Topps company’s glorious start to its hockey card career is represented here, with the popping colors of its inaugural issue always a treat to behold. Presented here in near-complete set form with fifty-nine (59) of the sixty (60) cards featured in the checklist present and accounted for, the grouping is missing only that of card #30 of Frank Martin for completion. Made up of mostly VG to VG-EX and VG-EX to EX condition offerings, the key cards include those of 1-Gamble (VG-EX to EX - light corner wear), 3-Howell (GOOD - crease and surface wear), 5-Kelly (G to VG - light stain and corner wear), 8-Howe (G to VG - colour bleed on the surface and corner wear), 10-Worsley (GOOD - small amount of paper loss at top right corner over the reverse), 11-Bathgate (G to VG - surface dent), 39-Delvecchio (G to VG - surface and border wear), 51-Lindsay (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 58-Sawchuk (VG - border and corner wear) and 60-Schmidt (FR to G - faded and surface colour bleed). For the rest of the set, the breakdown of conditions includes' nineteen (19) cards around VG-EX to EX, sixteen (16) cards around VG to VG-EX, five (5) cards around G to VG, six (6) cards around FR to G and finally, three (3) cards around PR to FR.
Also including a group of thirty-eight (38) extra cards, with some duplications and multiple duplication seen throughout, the key cards among those are specimens of 10-Worsley (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear), 11-Bathgate (FR to G - stain on front), 39-Delvecchio (GOOD - surface and corner wear), 41-Stanley (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear), 51-Lindsay (GOOD - top right corner) and 58-Sawchuk (GOOD - surface wear and colour bleed). For the rest of the extras, the breakdown of conditions includes; one (1) card seen as being around VG-EX to EX, eleven (11) cards around VG to VG-EX, nine (9) cards around G to VG, seven (7) cards around FR to G and finally, four (4) cards around PR to FR.
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