Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2021
Serving The Big Apple and its sporting citizens admirably, the New York Americans were the first hockey club to capture the imagination of Gotham in 1925-26, with the New York Rangers joining the NHL fray the following season. Celebrating hockey in Manhattan, we have a great collection of Amerks and Blueshits items totaling 40. Dominated by vintage images in the 8” x 10” range, for the Americans, there are four vintage photos including Nels Stewart and Allan Shields, a rarely-seen pocket mirror showing an individual in an Americans jersey (2 ¼” with moderate wear), a Bill Holmes advertising card from the 1930s, four program inserts (Robertson, Dutton, Smith and Carr) and a Brooklyn Americans 1941-42 photo set of 15 including a team photo along with the original mailing envelope. The Rangers items include a 1940s postcard of Madison Square Garden, and nineteen program inserts including Boucher, Colville, B. Cook, Coulter, Hextall, O’Connor, Lester and Lynn Patrick and others (eight still have the line-up pages attached). Condition in the lot varies as one would expect, with the majority of the program inserts showing light to moderate wear, while the Brooklyn Americans photo set from 1941-42 remains in stunning high grade.
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