Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction April 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/30/2024
Playing his junior hockey as a member of the St. Cathrines Black Hawks and Niagara Falls Flyers of the OHA, winning a Memorial Cup in 1965, Doug Favell would go on to a National Hockey League career that spanned a total of 373 games over the course of twelve (12) years in the league starting with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1967-68. Also suiting up for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Colorado Rockies before retiring at the end of the 1978-79 season, Favell is regarded as the first goaltender in the NHL to use a painted design on his masks, beginning just before Halloween in 1970. Trading out the traditional fibreglass moulded mask for the helmet and cage combo towards the end of his career, offered here is this helmet and cage duo worn by Favell as a member of the Rockies circa 1978. A blue coloured Cooper SK2000 model with the brand's wordmark logo screened over the front and both side bumpers, a cult classic white coloured HM30 model cage, also by Cooper, is affixed to the front of the helmet while Favell's number "1" has been added via a decal to the lower reverse. Showing wear/flaking to the Cooper logos as well as the number "1", all the padding on the interior and the strapping harness of the cage remain intact on the interior of the piece. Showing numerous marks, scuffs and scratches throughout the entirety of the piece from many nights of flying rubber biscuits and other things coming into contact with it, the bumper on the right side of the mask shows a crack, common on these models of helmets and remains of white tape that has been wrapped around both sides of the cage is still observed as well. Featuring a customized extended plastic throat guard attached to the cage underneath the chin, don't miss out on this piece once worn by one of the more notable netminders of the 1970s.
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