Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2025
The Topps company’s glorious start to its hockey card career is represented here, with the popping colors of its inaugural issue always a treat to behold. Presented here in near-complete set form with fifty-eight (58) of the sixty (60) cards featured in the checklist present and accounted for, the grouping is missing only that of card #8 picturing Gordie Howe and card #41 picturing Allen Stanley. Found to be mostly in the condition ranges of EX to EX-MT, VG-EX to EX and VG to VG-EX as well as including a copy of card #22 featuring Wally Hergesheimer that has been signed by him over the front with a blue marker ink signature, the group includes the key cards of 1-Gamble (PR to FR - creases and damaged corners), 3-Howell (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 5-Kelly (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear and slightly faded), 10-Worsley (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear and off-center), 11-Bathgate (VG to VG-EX - pressure dent at the top right), 18-Mohns (FR to G - rounded and dinged corners), 32-Henry (G to VG - dinged/damaged bottom left corner), 35-McKenney (EX - light border wear), 39-Delvecchio (FR to G - creases and corners), 51-Lindsay (VG-EX to EX - light corner wear), 58-Sawchuk (EX to EX-MT - slight ding to the bottom left corner) and 60-Schmidt (PR to FR - damage to the area of the top right). For the rest of the set, twelve (12) cards are seen as being the scope of EX to EX-MT, twenty (20) cards present as VG-EX to EX, ten (10) cards are in the neighborhood of VG to VG-EX, three (3) cards are in the range of G to VG and lastly, a single (1) card is seen as being PR to FR.
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