Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2020
Assorted jewelry from his time coaching during the 1930s, we have a collection of pins hailing from the personal collection of Allan Cup and Olympic gold medal-winning coach, Percy Nicklin. Approx 19 pins/badges are present, along with a pair of Masonic cufflinks, a German “Garmisch-Partenkirchen” fold-out map (location of the 1936 Olympic Hockey Tournament) and 1935 Corona Crosby (England) theatre brochure. Highlights include a pair of 1938 IIHF World Championship pins, both with raised hockey players and “Praha 1938” (Prague). This is followed by a 1939 IIHF World Championships pin with ribbon (star shaped), a Japanese Olympic pin, a St Moritz crossed hockey sticks pin from 1935, and a German pin with swastika dated 1935. There are also rarely seen Atlantic City Seagulls and Trail Smoke Eaters pins. An LOA from the Nicklin family will accompany.
The majority of the pins show light to moderate wear.
The Percy Nicklin International Hockey Collection
Born in Simcoe, Ontario, just before the close of the 19th century and hailing from a Scottish family, Percy Harold Nicklin rose to hockey prominence coaching the Moncton Hawks to back-to-back Allan Cup championships as the top senior amateur club in Canada, in 1933 and 1934. Moving on to unlikely hockey locale England in 1935, Nicklin took the reins of the Richmond Hawks before assuming coaching duties with the ENL's Harringay Racers and Harringay Greyhounds. Nicklin would again put his magic behind the bench to work in 1936, when he and international hockey legend Bunny Ahearne built a strong Great Britain national team that would defeat Canada at the 1936 Winter Olympics to claim the gold medal. The successful Nicklin would go on to lead Great Britain to further glory, winning consecutive World Championships, in 1937 and 1938.
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