Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2025
Released during the first season of Montreal's still unmatched run of five (5) straight Stanley Cup championships, Parkhurst's 1955-56 hockey card release featured a checklist of seventy-nine (79) cards from the rosters of the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, with "old-time greats" as well as coaches, managers and each of the two (2) teams' famed venue's also featured in the release. Offered here, we present this complete set of Parkhurst's 1955-56 release. Featuring a fairly consistent condition range of VG to VG-EX and VG-EX to EX throughout its entirety, with almost all of the cards making up the contingent sporting a humidity curve that is worth mentioning for accuracy, the key cards include those of 1-Lumley (FR to G - paper loss and rounded bottom corners), 3-Horton (G to VG - faded front), 4-Armstrong (G to VG - tiny wrinkle/bend at top right), 18-Duff RC (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear), 33-Clancy (G to VG - faded front), 35-Marshall RC (faded front and corner wear), 37-M. Richard (FR to G - creased), 38-Moore (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear), 43-Geoffrion (VG to VG-EX - slight discoloration of the surface), 44-Beliveau (VG to VG-EX - slight surface fading and wear to the bottom left corner), 45-Harvey (VG-EX to EX - wear to bottom right corner), 50-Plante RC (VG to VG-EX - light corner wear), 67-Blake (VG to VG-EX - ding to bottom right corner), 70-"Lum Stops Boom Boom" (VG to VG-EX - wear to bottom left corner), 71-"Plante Is Protected" (VG-EX to EX - slight corner wear), 72-"Rocket Roars Through" (VG to VG-EX - faded at bottom left and corner wear), 73-"Richard Tests Lumley" (VG to VG-EX - faded red border), 74-"Beliveau Bats Puck" (VG to VG-EX - ding to bottom left corner), 75-"Leaf Speedsters Attack" (VG to VG-EX - image out of focus), 78-Montreal Forum (VG-EX to EX - slight corner wear) and 79-Maple Leaf Gardens (G to VG - dinged bottom left corner). For the rest of the set, the condition breakdown includes; twenty-one (21) cards around VG-EX to EX, twenty (20) cards around VG to VG-EX, twelve (12) cards around G to VG and finally, five (5) cards around FR to G. A key set from the Original Six era, don't miss out on these!
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