Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Winter 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2023
One of the most talked about decades in the history of the National Hockey League, the 1980s was marked by the dominance of the New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers, winning a total 8 Stanley Cups, while Montreal and Calgary added one each to close out the 10-year period of time. The 1980s also featured some of the greatest, and the greatest, player/players to ever play the game with many found in this lot of 1980-81 to 1989-90 O-Pee-Chee and Topps cards that includes rookie offerings of Bourque, Messier, Kurri, Francis, Gilmour, Neely, Robitaille, Shanahan and Hull. Slabbed rookie cards total 12 with the breakdown in chronological order by year as follows; 1980-81 O-Pee-Chee #289 Mark Messier graded (KSA NMM 8), 1980-81 O-Pee-Chee #289 Mark Messier (KSA ENM+ 6.5), 1980-81 O-Pee-Chee #140 Ray Bourque (Beckett EX-MT 6), 1981-82 Topps #18 Jari Kurri (PSA MINT 9), 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee #123 Ron Francis (Beckett NEAR MINT+ 7.5), 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee #123 Ron Francis (KSA NM+ 7.5), 1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #327 Cam Neely (PSA NM-MT 8), 1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #327 Cam Neely (Beckett NEAR MINT 7), 1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #185 Doug Gilmour (Beckett NEAR MINT 7), 1987-88 O-Pee-Chee #42 Luc Robitaille (Beckett NEAR MINT+ 7.5), 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee #66 Brett Hull (PSA NM-MT 8) and 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee #122 Brendan Shanahan (Beckett NEAR MINT+ 7.5). An additional unslabbed rookie cards are also included from both Topps and O-Pee-Chee from 1981-82 to 1989-90 including Kurri, Stasny, Housley, Lindbergh, Oates, Tocchet, Eklund (x2), Nieuwendyk, Shanahan, Probert, Linden and Granato with the cards falling in the condition range of EX-MT to NM with a couple of exceptions for the cards of Stasny and Nieuwendyk. The last group of 11 cards included with the lot features non-rookies of 1980s stars with graded examples totaling three and including two 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee #101 Paul Coffey cards slabbed MINT 9 (OC) and NM-MT 8 respectively along with a 1983-84 O-Pee-Chee #45 Ray Bourque that has earned a NM-MT 8 mark from PGS. Other cards include six (6) Steve Yzerman Topps cards from 1985-86 to 1989-90 and two (2) 1981-82 Topps cards of Ray Bourque.
It must be noted that the grading standards followed by WCG and MINT may not correspond to those currently employed by PSA, BGS or SGC. The outcome of an attempted cross-over of this piece through any of those services, then, would be uncertain and cannot be guaranteed.
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