Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
Perhaps the most famous hockey card set of all-time, cards from O-Pee-Chee’s 1979-80 release came in wax packs that contained 14 cards and cost young ones 20 cents, with the rookie cards of a young phenom by the name of Wayne Gretzky coveted by all by seasons end. Displaying wear to the corners and edges while also being hammered by creases and centering issues though retaining decent colours on both sides, this copy of card #18 picturing Wayne Gretzky, that has just recently earned an FR 1.5 designation from PSA for its effort and leads the way for this 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee complete set of 396 cards. For the other 395 cards making up the rest of the assembly, the group is seen as being in an overall uniform condition range of VG to VG-EX and VG-EX to EX throughout though some better off and lesser examples are present as well. For the notables, pacing the group are EX to EX-MT examples of 81-Jets Checklist, 82-Oilers Checklist, 125-Clarke, 163-Whalers Checklist, 175-Howe and 185-Hull while VG to VG-EX cards following closely behind include those of 150-Dryden (corner wear plus a small surface scratch), 160-Dionne (85-15 centering) and 230-Bossy. Rounding out the key offerings, 371-Semenko RC is found in the scope of VG to VG-EX shape and shows corner wear while 40-Salming (creased) and 200-Lafleur (creased) are both around the vicinity of FR to G. With most of the cards showing wear to their corners of varying degrees, some of the lower grade cards in the set include star players and the three (3) main series checklist cards are all marked with #346 also sporting a crease that is worth mentioning for accuracy as well. Additionally, the team checklist cards #244-261 are all unmarked expect for #'s 250, 251 and 263.
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