Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/29/2025
The era of the modern HOFer, the early 1980s featured numerous superstars early in their soon-to-be-noteworthy careers, including Gretzky, Bourque, Messier, Gartner, Kurri, Ciccarelli, Savard, Coffey and Peter Stastny. We present 1980-81 and 1981-82 O-Pee-Chee complete 396-card sets. The condition average for both sets is EX/MT to NRMT, with a slight humidity warp/curve to the cards, with the checklists all unmarked. First, for the 1980-81 set, the noteworthy cards in the EX/MT to NRMT range include #67 Goulet rookie (60/40 OC), #87 Gretzky AS, #140 Bourque rookie (70/30 OC), #195 Gartner rookie and #289 Messier rookie (60/40 OC). In the VG/EX to EX range we have #2 Bourque RB (OC, 4 small corner dings) and #3 Gretzky RB (miscut left border), and rounding out the set, card #182 Gretzky Team CL is FAIR to GOOD (scuffed, ding top right corner) and card #250 Gretzky is GOOD to GOOD+ (bad ding top right corner). For the 1981-82 set, the noteworthy cards in the EX/MT to NRMT range include #63 Savard rookie, #106 Gretzky (70/30 OC), #118 Messier, #111 Coffey rookie, #125 Gretzky SA and #269 Stastny rookie. The cards in the EX to EX/MT range include #1 Bourque (OC and top left corner fuzz), #107 Kurri rookie (small ding top left corner) and #161 Ciccarelli rookie (small ding top right corner).
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