Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/20/2024
Hailing from the third and fourth seasons of play for the rival league, the World Hockey Association, in which the Houston Aeros and Winnipeg Jets captured AVCO Cup championships, offered here is this lot consisting of a near complete O-Pee-Chee WHA set from 1974-75 season and a complete O-Pee-Chee WHA assembly from the 1975-76 campaign. Starting with the earlier of the two (2) sets, the 1974-75 release features 61 of the 66 cards found on the checklist and is missing numbers 20, 38, 46, 53-Checklist and 64-Plante for completion. Found to be in the overall uniform condition range of VG to VG-EX with corner wear and a few creases present throughout all of the included cards, the group is paced by key cards of 1-The Howes (FR to G - creased), 4-Nilsson RC (VG to VG-EX (border wear), 17-Hedberg RC (VG-EX to EX - light corner wear), 30-Cheevers (VG-EX to EX - small print mark along the top edge), 40-Mahovlich (VG to VG-EX - corner wear) and 50-Hull (VG to VG-EX - bottom right corner ding).
For the 1975-76 set, found to be an overall EX to EX-MT condition range grouping after inspection, the set is led by EX-MT to NM cards of 34-Plante and 66-Howe AS while 65-Hull AS (tiny ding at bottom right corner) and 100-Howe (tiny ding at bottom left corner) are seen as falling into the vicinity of EX-MT. Also including an EX to EX-MT copy of card #131, the checklist, which is unmarked, rounding out the key cards are those of 1-Hull (VG to VG-EX - bottom right corner ding) and 7-M. Howe (GOOD - faint crease top middle). Overall a pleasing lot for those looking to add some vintage cardboard of the WHA to their all-important collections!
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