Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction September 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/19/2023
A chance to score a duo of complete O-Pee-Chee offerings from the mid-1970s is offered here, through these complete 1975-76 and 1976-77 sets up on the auction block. The 75-76 set, overall in the condition range of VG-EX to EX throughout, is led condition wise by VG-EX to EX cards of 275-Potvin (bottom right corner ding), 283-Salming (top left corner ding) and 288-Orr AS with the trio followed closely behind by VG to VG-EX examples of 23-McDonald (corner wear and 80-20 centering), 126-Lafleur (95-5 centering), 140-Dionne (wax staining and light corner wear) and 241-Robinson. Continuing on, the cardboard of 35-Dryden (completely off-center), 150-Sittler (right border ding and tiny crease) and 250-Clarke (90-10 centering and tiny corner crease) are all viewed as falling into the scope of VG while the cards of Boston Bruins teammates and superstars Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, card's #100 and #200 respectively, are seen as being in the neighbourhoods of GOOD and FR to G for their efforts with both having corner wear and a crease to speak of. For the checklist cards, all four (4) are found unmarked but are found in an array of conditions with #99 showing a small crease and presenting as G to VG, #171 around VG and faded, #267 around VG but completely off-center and #276 (cards #331-#396) around FR to G but marked "395" with ink. All the team checklist cards are unmarked through one (1) is creased and the other stars are consistent with the rest of the set.
For the 1976-77 set, found to be better off by being in a uniform range of EX to EX-MT though many of the cards are off-centered, the set's key rookie card of Bryan Trottier is seen as being in the vicinity of VG-EX to EX condition with a weak bottom right corner while his Rookie Record Breaker is also around VG-EX to EX and is 85% off-center. For the notable star cards, 70-Clarke (85% off-center), 91-Dionne (light corner wear), 163-Lafleur (80% off-center and light corner wear), 200-Dryden (80% off-center and light corner wear) and 348-McDonald (light corner wear) are all in the scope of EX to EX-MT shape while 10-Parent (80% off-center) and 213-Orr (off-center on the reverse - light corner wear) are in the neighbourhood of EX. Finished off by VG-EX to EX cards of #22 Borje Salming and #151 Larry Robinson, all three checklists remain unmarked with #116 and #377 in the condition range of EX-MT to NM and #258 seen as EX due to a slight miscut. Additionally, all the team checklist cards are unmarked and the other stars are in a condition consistent with the rest of the set.
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