Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/4/2014
Boston Garden fan favorite Terry O’Reilly wore this awesome photo-matched black mesh Bruins game during both the 1977-78 and 1978-79 seasons. This beauty has much more than 50 team repairs, including major thread surgery to fix both sleeves! Hammered O’Reilly game is photo-matched to the board burn across the bear head patch on the right shoulder, as well as the #2 on the same sleeve which is positioned at an angle when looking at the yellow stripe below. Stall & Dean tagging in the collar has a team repair on the upper right corner. “1978” size “54” and laundry instruction tags all remain in the back of the neck and the double garter-style fight strap is intact. A new nameplate was added at the beginning of the 78-79 season after the original one was removed for that preseason. The sleeves with customized elastic cuffs have burns, stick marks and so many repairs that it impossible to count them all. There is very nice interior pilling throughout the entire jersey. Please note that this item may be subject to a silent reserve. Detailed team repairs and more game wear:
Right Sleeve - Over 30+ team repairs; it’s just silly to try to count and there could be more. Most of the repairs just blend into many huge clumps of repairs, the sleeve is almost solid with repairs.
Left Sleeve - Over 30+ repairs again; it all depends on how you count them. Repairs bleed into other repairs, making huge repairs.
Front - Repair on the "V" collar, three repairs towards the hem, heavy pilling on the bottom knit hem stripe. Some stick marks and burns.
Back – We count 21 team repairs on the back. Again you can see where the 1977-78 nameplate was originally. There are four repairs below the nameplate showing evidence of this. The original nameplate was stripped off for the 1978-79 preseason, then a new nameplate was added for the regular season. The gold tackle twill in the name is sewn on identically to the numbers with a zigzag stitch. The white tackle twill is sewn in a tighter zigzag stitch. The name and nameplate show fraying.
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