Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2022
Made to cover the hands of the man that will forever sit alone atop the top of the National Hockey League’s all-time points leader list we have here a pair of professional model Easton GX800R gloves from Gretzky’s early years with the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky, famously known for wearing Jofa gloves and using Titan sticks in the beginning of his career, switched to Easton gloves and sticks upon trying them out in the summer of 1990 and signing a seven-year endorsement deal shortly after. These gloves, based on research, are one of, if not the first, style of glove that Gretzky used when he switched over to Easton. The gloves show heavy customization resembling what Gretzky was used to with his old Jofa mittens in the form of Wayne’s preferred leather palms, extended cuffs with a swatch of leather added between the palm and cuff to achieve the desired length, and the removal of the Velcro closure that would have connected the wrist roll all the way around each glove which. The Velcro closure was a feature on most Easton models of the era that apparently Wayne did not prefer and the place it was removed from on each glove is easily seen on each cuff. Each glove’s cuff features a faded-out signature from Gretzky which even with the fading, becomes a positive sign when it comes to the gloves provenance and proving that they are in fact professional models made for Wayne due to the fact that later in his career Gretzky would typically just sign a single glove of pairs that were made for retail sale from Upper Deck Authentic and Wayne Gretzky Authentic. The gloves do show some areas of light wear with examples of such being the palm of the right glove in the form of a few small black marks possibly from Wayne’s “Jack the Gripper” knob grip and on the grey binding of the left glove near the first finger and the palm possibly from contact with a stick shaft. To go along with the gloves, four photography examples of Wayne wearing the same model with similar customization attributes displayed. Don’t miss out on your chance to own this fascinating pair of gloves meant to grace the hands of the game’s greatest player!
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