Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2020
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A rookie card-laden 1974-75 O-Pee-Chee complete set is a great way to start this collection, with Bowman, Cherry, Potvin, Salming, McDonald, Shutt and Gainey leading the 94(!) RC lineup, with VG-EX to EX examples dominating throughout. The lone Topps entry is a ’75-76 set and then it’s an almost complete run (the ’79-80 Gretzky RC year is not present) from ’76-77 to ’88-89. The ‘70s representatives tend to be in the VG-EX to EX range, with condition then improving and “quite sharp overall” summing up the ‘80s entries. The lowdown is as follows: ’80-81 (mostly EX-or-better), ’81-82 and ’82-83 (EX-MT average), ’83-84 (NM-or-better dominate), ’84-85 (particularly sharp (NM-MT set)), ’85-86 and ’86-87 (NM+, with however Mario Lemieux RC but VG-EX and Patrick Roy RC at NM), ’87-88 (NM set) and ’88-89 (NM-MT set). Definitely dozens of grading candidates among the ‘80s cards, with a binder full of miscellaneous food/insert/oddball sets and singles swell bonuses and not included in our title/count. Please see our website for further details and images – this collection has appeal plus.
Some of the key rookie cards to note are those of Cherry (VG-EX+), Bowman (VG), Trottier (VG-EX), Bossy, (VG-EX), Messier (EX+), Coffey (NM-MT (OC)) and Yzerman (NM-MT (OC)), with of course dozens of Gretzky cards carrying weight. A few missing cards to report are from ’77-78 (13, 48, 200, 271), ’81-82 (334) and ’83-84 (229, 356), while we may have missed a few others. The vast majority of checklists and team checklists are unmarked throughout. The aforementioned bonuses include a Neilson (50-card) Gretzky set (although housed in ancient nine-pocket pages, with removal resulting in possible paper loss) and apparent sets of ’77-78 OPC glossy inserts (22 round corner), ’83-84 Vachon (140), ’85-86 7-Eleven Credit Cards (25) and ’82-83 Post Playing Cards. Some miscellaneous OPC inserts from the early-‘70s and a cookie tin full of miscellaneous cards are throw-ins and may provide the odd pleasant surprise.
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