Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Released during years that saw the Montreal Canadiens win the final Stanley Cup of their dominate rein over the National Hockey League in the 1970's and the New York Islanders win their second (2nd) of four (4) straight Stanley Cup championships, offered here is this lot featuring a pair of classic O-Pee-Chee assemblies in the form of a complete set of the company's 1978-79 hockey release as well as a near-complete set from 1980-81.
Starting with the earlier of the two (2) sets, the 1978-79 contingent is complete with all 396-cards featured in the checklist being present and accounted for while presenting in an overall consistent condition range of EX-MT to NM throughout its entirety. Of note, card #1, the rookie record breaker example of Mike Bossy is miscut and all the team checklist cards (#'s 192-208) are marked on their reverses. Additionally, main series checklist cards #'s 24, 259 and 297 are all unmarked though #259 sports a crease and shows a stain over its reverse. Lastly, the All-Star cards (#334, #335 and #336) of Denis Potvin, Serge Savard and Don Edwards have all had their top borders cut with scissors. For the key cards found throughout the checklist, included are those of 50-Dryden (VG to VG-EX - discoloured), 90-Lafleur (EX to EX-MT - off-center), 115-Bossy RC (EX to EX-MT - 80-20 centering), 143-Federko RC (EX to EX-MT - 90-10 centering), 300-Orr (EX-MT to NM - very slight wear to the bottom corners) and 353-Taylor RC (EX-MT to NM - 80-20 centering).
Moving on to the near-complete set from 1980-81 that includes 395 of the 396 cards in the checklist, missing only the rookie card of Mark Messier for completion, the grouping is found to be in the overall condition range of EX-MT to NM throughout its entirety while card #200 of Bill Barber is an exception and is in a low-grade state. With the team checklist cards all unmarked except #71 of the St. Louis Blues and #94 of the Boston Bruins, the key cards include those of 3-Gretzky RB (EX-MT to NM - completely off-center), 67-Goulet RC (EX to EX-MT - slight corner wear), 87-Gretzky AS (EX-MT to NM), 123-Checklist (EX-MT to NM - unmarked), 14-Bourque RC (EX-MT to NM - 70-30 centering), 182-Gretzky/Oilers Team Checklist (EX to EX-MT - unmarked), 195-Gartner RC (EX-MT to NM), 250-Gretzky (EX to EX-MT - 2nd year card - bottom left corner wear), 257-Checklist (EX-MT to NM - unmarked), 344-Langway RC (EX-MT to NM) and 396-Checklist (EX to EX-MT - unmarked - wear to bottom right corner).
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