Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Released during a season that saw the Winnipeg Blue Bombers win their fourth (4th) Grey Cup championship in a span of five (5) years and the second (2nd) of back-to-back titles, all four (4) Cup wins between 1958 and 1962 would come over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Considered to be the ninth (9th) season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the fifth (5th) Canadian Football League season, offered here is this exceptionally tough complete master set of the 1962 Topps CFL release that features 192 different two (2) card panels for a total of 384 cards in all. Featuring a total of 169 cards in checklist, the master set being offered is the culmination of a twenty (20) year effort by our consignor to put it together after acquiring more than 2,500 panels to date as of this writing, resulting in the master set being offered, another that remains in their personal collection and finally, another that is roughly ten (10) panels short of completion, proving how difficult the task of putting a master set together is. With most of the names in the set being represented on multiple panels, the master set is the first one that Classic Auctions has ever had the privilege of offering. With the assembly being offering found to be in the overall uniform condition ranges of EX-MT and EX-MT to NM for its effort, it should be noted that their are seventeen (17) panels throughout sporting team photo checklist cards which are all unmarked though a few are off-center. Additionally, there are eight (8) cards/panels with wax stains over their reverses. For the key cards, included are those of 1/2-Bailey/Beamer (EX-MT to NM - slightly off-center), 12/13-Homer/Kapp (EX-MT to NM - slightly off-center), 13/14-Kapp/Larscheid (EX to EX-MT - off-center and light dent on the reverse), 51/52-Nelson/Parker (EX-MT to NM), 52/53-Parker/Schumm (EX to EX-MT - slight ding to the bottom right corner), 62/63-Dublinski/Faloney (EX to EX-MT - bottom left has border wear), 63/64-Faloney/Fraser (VG-EX to EX - light damage to the bottom left border), 66/67-Grant/Henley (EX to EX-MT - top left and bottom border has wear), 67/68-Henley/Howell (EX to EX-MT - slight wear to the top corners), 73/168-Patterson/Sheppard (EX to EX-MT - small ding to the border at the top left), 73/74-Patterson/Scott (EX-MT to NM), 85/86-Francis/Gaines (VG-EX to EX - tiny wrinkle on Francis), 86/87-Gaines/Hansen (EX-MT to NM), 99/100-Desmarais/Jackson (EX-MT to NM - slightly off-center), 100/101-Jackson/Jones (EX-MT to NM), 101/102-Jones/Lancaster (EX to EX-MT - slight wear to the bottom corners), 102/103-Lancaster/Mosca (EX-MT to NM - slightly off-center), 145/64-Shatto/Fraser (EX-MT to NM - slightly off-center), 145/146-Shatto/Shipp (EX to EX-MT - off-center and a tiny ding to the top left), 164/165-Rauhaus/Rigny (EX-MT to NM) and 165/166-Rigny/Rowland (VG-EX to EX - large wax stain over the reverse). A true treasure that is possible the first of its kind ever offered at auction, don't miss out on this unique opportunity to add some vintage football to your all-important collection.
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