Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction June 2010
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/22/2010
Extensive and incredibly huge lot of 724 New York Rangers photos is housed in three large black binders along with an envelope filled with a stack of team-issued 8" x 10" photos. This fantastic Blueshirts photo lot includes a vintage team photo just prior to the start of the 1933 Stanley Cup finals, which the Rangers went on to win, along with a vintage large negative of the same team. A photo of the 1940 team is also accompanied by a large negative. Another 11 Rangers team photos range from the 1939-40 Stanley Cup champions to the next Cup winner in 1993-94. Grouped alphabetically, the binder of photos include Beck (3), Boucher (3), Brooks (2), Carr, Mac Colville, Neil Colville, Bun Cook (2), Bill Cook (2), Coulter (2), Dahlen (3), Davidson (13), Dionne (2 photos + 2 signed postcards), Duguay (12), Eddolls, Egan, Phil Esposito (29), Jack Evans (1 signed of 2), Fontinato, Fotiu (4), Gadsby (1 signed of 2), Gilbert (5), Gilles Gratton (4), Greschner (8), Gretzky (15), Hadfield (2), Hedberg (6), Heller (2), C. Henry (4), B. Hextall (1), Hickey (1 signed of 10), Hodge (3), Ching Johnson (1), Kerr (2), Lafleur (3 signed of 5), Leetch (17), Maloney (7), Messier (12), Middleton (4), Mio (2 signed), Don Murdoch (4), Nilsson (4), O'Connor (2), Park (1), Polis (3), Pratt (1), Ratelle (3), Rayner (1), Richter (23), Sanderson (2), Shibicky (2), Siebert, Smith, Stanley, Wayne Thomas (1 signed of 18), Tkaczuk (9), Vadnais (7), Vanbiesbrouck (2 signed of 12), Vickers (6), Phil Watson (2). A separate envelope contains a pair of vintage team-issued 8" x 10"s signed by Esposito, who has also dedicated an 8" x 5" shot. Signed Richter (4), Leetch (3), Dionne (2) and Gartner photos are also included in the thick stack of team-issued shots, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. Worsley (2) and Gilbert have signed modern prints and Howell has signed a vintage Bauer skates ad with his facsimile signature. [red] Addendum; The thick stack of team-issued photos from the 1980s includes the following; 1980-81 (36 photos including duplicates with 31 autographed ones including Esposito (2), Hedberg (3), Greschner (3), Davidson (2), Sulliman (2), Don Maloney (3), Steve Vickers (2), Dave Maloney, Silk, Tkaczuk, Beck, Nilsson, Duguay, Thomas & others), 1980s media photos with portrait in civil and action photos (50 autographed ones including Dionne (2), Larouche, Leetch, Richter, Vanbiesbrouck, Duguay, Greshner and others), 1980s media photos with posed in uniform and action photos (119 with duplicates featuring 97 autographed ones including James Patrick (3), Vanbiesbrouck (4), Amonte, Leetch (2), Kisio (3), Ogrodnick (4), Richter (2), Gartner, Shaw (3), Greschner and others). Vintage photos includes pre-war Turofsky photos (19), mainly all 8 x 10 inches first generation photos, with most having some paper residues glued on their backs, and including Boucher, Colville, the Cook brothers, Hextall, Kerr (2), Muzz Patrick, Lynn Patrick, Pratt, Seibert and others. There is a group of 13 National Hockey Photos including Laprade, Rayner, Stanley and others as well as 11 New York Rangers Fan Club photos including Hebenton, Prentice, Fontinato and others and autographed ones of Gadsby and Evans. A group of 21 mainly pre-war photos, mainly all 8 x 10 inches includes those of Ching Johnson, Heller, Coulter, Bill Cook, Bun Cook, Mac Colville, Boucher (2), O’Connor, Shibicky, Watson, Evans and others. A group of 5 press photos from the 1930s is highlighted by a 1933 team photo and of the line of the Cook Bros and Boucher.[/red]
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