Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/25/2024
A fantastic duo of classic offerings to tell you about here, headlined by a pair of legendary New York Islander Hall of Famers, up on the auction block here are complete sets of 1977-78 and 1978-79 O-Pee-Chee hockey releases. Both consisting of 396 card checklists, the 1977-78 set, an overall consistent assembly of high-grade EX-MT to NM offerings throughout, is headlined by card #105 of Bryan Trottier that falls in the vicinity of EX-MT to NM, along with the cards of 68-Checklist (unmarked - bottom border off-center, small print mark), 100-Dryden, 134-Milbury RC, 211-Palmateer RC and 249-Checklist (unmarked - 80-20 centering). Also including EX-MT examples of 251-Orr (tiny black spot on left shoulder) and 381-Checklist (unmarked - 85-15 centering and small red print mark over the bottom right), the key cards are concluded by an EX to EX-MT copy of card #200 that pictures Guy Lafleur over the front, which shows with a small surface bubble and a ding to the top left corner. Additionally, the set also includes the team checklist cards that are found from card #'d 71-88, all of which are unmarked, and the team logo subset cards that fall between #'s 322 to 339. Lastly, the rest of the star cards are in a condition that is consistent with the rest of the set.
For the 1978-79 release, once again found to be in the high-grade state of EX-MT to NM throughout except for card #76 of Bob Gainey, which has a dinged corner, the key cards include 24-Checklist (EX-MT to NM - unmarked), 50-Dryden (VG to VG-EX - left border ding, factory print line/scratch across the middle of the front), 90-Lafleur (EX-MT to NM), 115-Bossy RC (EX-MT to NM - 75-25 centering), 143-Federko RC (EX-MT - tiny notch at the top of the right border), 168-Wilson RC (EX-MT to NM), 259-Checklist (EX to EX-MT - unmarked - tiny factory wrinkle at the top left), 297-Checklist (EX-MT to NM - off-center top-to-bottom), 300-Orr (EX-MT to NM - last OPC card) and 353-Taylor RC (EX-MT to NM - 60-40 centering). All sporting a slight humidity curve and unmarked team checklist cards between #192 and #208, the other star cards are all in a condition that is consistent with the rest of the set.
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