Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/2/2023
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. This lot offers a collection of Hewitt items highlighted by his personal Stetson hat worn at the IIHF World Championships in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Included, we have a small pocket watch with the reverse engraved with "In Appreciation to Foster Hewitt at Visit of NHL Maple Leafs & Blackhawks April 1936 Gyro Club of Vancouver" (wear to the casing with tie string attached), a 1985 Hewitt funerary program, a funerary guestbook with numerous signatures including Frank Selke, Ace Bailey, Punch Imlach, Ted Kennedy, Harry Watson, Sid Smith, Red Kelly, Dick Duff, Cal Gardner, Dave Keon, Hap Day, Jean Beliveau, Bob Baun and many others, a 1979 Canadian National Exhibition guest medallion with Hewitt image on reverse (2 1/2"), a "Voice of Hockey Night in Canada" autobiography cardboard advertising standee with easel reverse (9" x 12"), a mounted newsprint photo, two Bee Hive photos and two scrapbook pages. The hat comes in the original Stetson box along with a 1963 LOA stating where it was worn.
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