Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/20/2024
For lovers of oversized cards and photographs, look no further than this lot here that offers eleven (11) cards from O-Pee-Chee's 1939-40 V-301-1 release as well as a collection of sixteen (16) Group 1 and Group 2 BeeHive pictures. Starting with the O-Pee-Chee cards from 1939-40, the group is made up of mostly Detroit Red Wings examples and includes the likes of HOFers Ebbie Goodfellow (EX - top left corner ding) and Sid Howe (VG to VG-EX - small stains) while the remaining nine (9) include EX proximity examples of 69-Giesebrecht (top right corner ding) and 74-Liscombe (light corner wear) plus VG-EX to EX specimens of 61-Keating (top two corners dinged) and 71-Kilrea (small ding to bottom left corner). For the rest of the desirable oversized offerings, present are the likes of 65-Orlando (FR to G - bottom border chipped/paper loss), 70-Deacon (GOOD - stain), 73-Wares (x2 - one around VG to VG-EX with the top two corners dinged and the other "authentic" with one corner cut off and writing over the reverse) and 79-Allen (GOOD - crease). For the rest of the collection, made up of BeeHive Group 1 (1934-43) and Group 2 (1944-64) photos, sixteen (16) images are included along with an original St. Lawrence Starch Company shipping envelope. For the Group 1's, almost all have a handwritten date over their lower front portions of the backboard and none are in the higher sphere of conditions, rather mostly low grades examples. Including the likes of Cooney Weiland, Dit Clapper, Milt Schmidt (has a creases in lower right area of the photo), Tiny Thompson (has multiple long folds/creases to the photo which has some staining, one crease through the backboard), Ray Getliffe (has multiple folds on the photo, backboard has a side-to-side crease) and Woody Dumart (photo appears to be reglued and has a small fold in the lower left corner of the photo with a crease on the backboard on the same corner), Bryan Hextall (photo reglued to the backboard), Syl Apps (has multiple folds to the photo which was reglued to the backboard), Charlie Conacher (photo reglued to the backboard), Ebbie Goodfellow (photo appears to have been reglued and some damage to the backboard), Johnny Mowers (photo ws reglued to the backboard which has some damage on its back) and Herbert Lewis (photo was reglued to the backboard), the Group 2 photos total four (4) and include Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, Marcel Pronovost and Alex Delvecchio with all around mid-grade except for the Delvecchio, which is worse off and in a lesser condition.
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