Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
Lot #659:
1980-81 to 1983-84 O-Pee-Chee Hockey Rookies Cards (31) Including Messier, Bourque, Gartner, Goulet, Stastny, Ciccarelli, Moog, Coffey, Kurri, Savard, Hawerchuk, Francis, Fuhr, Stevens & Others
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Ultra alluring and sure to provoke a ton of interest from rookie card collectors to speculators to those just getting involved in the rookie card frenzy, offered here is this collection of thirty-one (31) O-Pee-Chee rookie cards that date from 1980-81 to 1983-84 which includes names such as Messier, Bourque, Gartner, Goulet, Stastny, Ciccarelli, Moog, Coffey, Kurri, Savard, Hawerchuk, Francis, Fuhr, Stevens and others. Starting with the earliest cards included in the lot, hailing from O-Pee-Chee's 1980-81 release, included are the first-year examples of 67-Goulet (VG-EX to EX - off-center and light corner wear), 140-Bourque (EX to EX-MT - slight diamond cut and completely off-center), 195-Gartner (EX-MT to NM - slight wear to the top two corners) and 289-Messier (EX-MT to NM - 60-40 centering). For cards from 1981-82, included are those of 63-Savard (EX-MT - off-center and slight corner wear), 11-Coffey (EX-MT - completely off-center) and 269-Stastny (EX-MT to NM - slight diamond cut) while for 1982-83, present are the rookie cards of 105-Fuhr (EX-MT to NM - ligth wax over the surface), 123-Francis (EX-MT - small bottom left corner ding) and 380-Hawerchuk (EX-MT - tiny bottom right corner ding). Lastly, included from the 1983-84 release is a copy of Pelle Lindbergh's rookie card, #268 in the set, which is seen as being around EX-MT with the bottom left corner having slight wear. Also including twenty (20) more first year cards from the early-1980s that is mostly all Hall of Famers and stars, the conditions of those cards average out to EX-MT to NM.
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