Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2024
Competed for between February 3rd and 11th of 1934 in Milan, Italy, the 1934 IIHF World Championships saw Canada, represented by the Saskatoon Quakers, claim the country's 7th gold medal in ice hockey over their neighbours to the south, the United States, who were represented by the Massachusetts Rangers. The Rangers, a men's amateur hockey team from Boston, the team was made up of mostly Boston area college hockey players in the NCAA along with some members of the Boston Olympics and with the combined roster, the team made up the United States men's national ice hockey team for the 1933 World Championship that won the gold medal. Offered here, we present this photo of the 1934 Massachusetts Rangers that has been signed by the entirety of the World Championship roster. Measuring out to approximately 9" x 6 3/4", the black and white image that is stamped with the stamp of a German photography studio on the reverse presents in good condition with some light wear to the corner and edges that is worth noting for accuracy. Actually taken in Germany where the the 1936 Winter Olympic Games were being held but showing the players of the 1934 World Championship USA roster, the image has been signed left to right over the bottom by the likes of Edward Keating (signed B... Keating), Frank Stubbs, Fred McDonnell, Arthur Smith, Clem Harnedy, Robert Jeremiah (signed Jerry Jeremiah), Robert Nilon, Walter Bender and Richard Maley (signed Dick Maley) as well as Walter Brown (head coach - HOFer deceased 1964), who was one of the pioneers of hockey in the United States, working constantly to promote hockey in the Boston area and was a major booster of the high school and college game. Also serving as manager of the Boston Garden, he founded the Boston Celtics of the NBA in 1945 and bought the NHL's Bruins in 1951. Having all signed the image in black fountain pen ink, all the autographs are largely bold and vivid while showing varying degrees of age/fading that is heaviest on the Walter Bender example. A JSA LOA will accompany the piece.
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