The 2009 Montreal Centennial Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2009
In 1909, a team called the Comets from Haileybury, Ontario earned notoriety in ice hockey circles, luring professional players such as Con Corbeau, Skene Ronan and Harry Smith away from teams in the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL) and the Eastern Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (ECHA). When the Federal League Renfrew Creamery Kings team failed to join the new Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) in November 1909, Comets owner Ambrose O'Brien organized the National Hockey Association and included Haileybury and his other TPHL team, the Cobalt Silver Kings, in the league, along with the Montreal Wanderers, Les Canadiens and Renfrew, which he had to buy so as to enter the team in the NHA. Thus, the beginnings of what was to become the National Hockey League in 1917. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Tommy Smith, down in front on this outstanding real photo postcard, leads hisfully-equipped Haileybury squad in a studio pose. The McLean Studio postcard is in very collectible condition with a stamped and handwritten reverse postmarked in 1909.
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