Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
A premium we have never previously encountered throughout our quarter century in business, and featuring two monumental stars of the day including the roughest player to ever lace up the skates, we offer a pair of exceedingly rare hockey premium pictures of HOFer Sprague Cleghorn and Fred Lake, issued in "The Herald" newspaper. Blank backed, and on thin stock, each has been trimmed down to approx 8" x 12" (the Lake is a bit shorter), with the respective player's name beneath and a border to each, with the images themselves fully intact. Cleghorn appears to be pictured in his Montreal Wanderers sweater, but it is missing the "W" - with this possibly air-brushed out for some reason, while Lake is seen in his Ottawa Senators uniform. Cleghorn was with the Wanderers from 1911-12 to 1916-17, while Lake starred with the Sens from 1908-09 to 1914-15. This would leave an approx date for the premiums of somewhere between 1911-12 to 1914-15. Each premium has wear along the edges to the paper, and appear to have once been in a scrapbook. It is highly likely that these are the only two surviving examples in existence.
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