Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/20/2024
Featuring players who competed in the National Hockey Association, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and Ontario leagues, the C57 issue is undoubtedly the most challenging to track down and complete among the three early tobacco card sets, with its black and white images found by many to be somewhat haunting. Definitely riveting and thought-provoking, offered here, we present this starter set of the 1912-13 Imperial Tobacco C57's. Including twenty-seven (27) of the fifty (50) cards that make up the checklist and spearheaded by a group of recently and freshly graded PSA offerings, those of #1 Georges Vezina (PSA PR 1), #43 Fred Taylor (PSA PR 1), #44 Newsy Lalonde (PSA PR 1) and #48 Joe Malone (PSA PR 1) are those that were recently slabbed while freshly encapsulated cards include the likes of; #4 A. Atchinson (PSA VG 3), #8 George Poulin (PSA GOOD 2), #12 Don Smith (PSA VG 3), #18 Paddy Moran (PSA PR 1), #22 Walter Small (PSA FR 1.5), #26 Ernie Russell (PSA GOOD 2 "MC"), #38 Jack Marks (PSA GOOD 2), #41 Lester Patrick (PSA PR 1), #45 Didier Pitre (PSA FR 1.5), #46 Jack Laviolette (PSA FR 1.5), #49 Marty Walsh (PSA GOOD 2), and #50 Odie Cleghorn (PSA PR 1), other cards inspected, albeit not holdered by PSA, include those of #6 Art Bernier and #36 Jack Fournier, with both having been deemed to have evidence of trimming. Missing just cards 3, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39 and 47 for completion, the raw cards present within the offered accumulation include FR range examples of #11 Bobby Rowe (creases and a stain), #14 Skene Ronan (back damage), #19 Harry Hyland (paper loss on the back), #27 Percy Lesueur (multiple creases) and #42 Joe Dennison (paper loss on back) while #9 of E. Payan (multiple creases) presents in the scope of PR to FR. Lastly, the cards of #2 of Harry Broadbent (filler), #5 Tommy Dunderdale (paper loss on reverse) and #40 A. Boyce (no back) are all found in the neighbourhood of "Authentic" for their efforts.
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