Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/20/2024
Extremely popular with NHL players beginning in the early-1970s, Sher-Wood began manufacturing hockey sticks in Canada circa-1948. This unique wooden sign made to advertise that the NHL's Calder and Vezina Trophy winners in 1975 - Eric Vail and Bernie Parent - used Sher-Wood sticks, once hung at the Sher-Wood production plant. At approx 9 1/2" x 45", the 3/4" thick sign sports hand-painted graphics, including "Calder" and "Vezina" over the left, and "Eric Vail" and "Bernard Parent" on the right, with "1975 Trophy Winners" above. The sign appears re-used, with paint visible beneath the listed players, and the "5" of "1975" has been painted over a different number. This makes sense, as a cost-cutting measure, the sign was probably changed each season. There is a chain affixed to the reverse to hang the sign, and we should note just expected wear commensurate with the sign's former use. An included 8" x 10" photo within the Sher-Wood plant clearly shows this sign hanging in the background, in the upper left. There is a Sherbrooke photographers stamp on the reverse.
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