Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Winter 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/1/2023
Considerable time and efforts were made to put together these ''Gretzky Exclusive'' and ''Gretzky Living Legend'' hockey cards master sets issued by Upper Deck in 1999-2000. Starting things up is the 1999-2000 UD Gretzky Exclusive set which includes the four (4) Authentics autographed cards of the Great One; WG1 Edmonton Oilers, WG2 Los Angeles Kings, WG3 St. Louis Blues and WG4 New York Rangers. Each of these cards features a beautiful fine blue marker signature of Gretzky directly onto the card and although not numbered there is reportedly 99 each of the Blues and Kings that were made with 50 and 25 done respectively for the Oilers and Rangers. The cards and signatures remain in beautiful condition with a small touch to the top left corner of the Oilers card to be noted. The issue also includes the 99-card base set but more importantly the parallel gold 99-card set with each card numbered out of 99! This set features the Gretzky Timeline (30 cards), O' Canada (8 cards), Hart of Gold (9 cards), The Great Artist (10 cards), Teammates (15 cards), The Next Ones (15 cards), Lasting Impressions (10 cards) and checklists (2). The sets are stored in 9-pocket Ultra Pro pages and light wear/white specs are intermittently seen on the corners of the cards which overall seem to remain in nice condition overall.
The Gretzky Living Legends set includes some nice goodies as well including card #GJ1 Wayne Gretzky game-used all-star jersey autograph (95/99) which is also signed directly onto the card in fine blue marker with the signature displaying flawlessly with no condition issue to report for the card. Other cards included from the Authentics series are the game-used puck cards (6), cards P1 to P6, with minor corner wear visible on some of those cards, game-used stick cards (2), S1 and S2, also exhibiting minor corner wear and card C1 featuring a piece of game-used jersey, stick and game puck hand-numbered ''50/99'' which also shows minor corner wear. Numerous sets/inserts sets included are highlighted by the Living Legends ''More than a Number'' parallel die-cut 99-card set (each card numbered out of /99) and the ''Year of the Great One'' parallel die-cut 99-card set (each card numbered out of /1999) which are completed by the regular 99-card set. These sets are also stored in 9-pocket Ultra Pro pages and light wear are intermittently seen on the corners of the cards which overall seem to remain in nice condition overall as well.
A number of smaller insert sets complete the Living Legends offering including; 'Great Accolades'' complete 45-card set (GA1 to GA45), ''Goodwill Ambassador'' complete 9-card set (GW1 to GW9), ''The Great One'' complete 9-card set (GO1 to GO9), ''Great Stats'' complete 6-card set (GS1 to GS6), 'Wearing the Leaf'' complete 6-card set (WL1 to WL6), 'A Leader by Example'' complete 6-card set (L1 to L6) and ''Magic Moments'' complete 6-card set (MM1 to MM6). A few small boxes of duplicates of the base cards are also included. This collection should garner lofty interest from Gretzky collectors and card enthusiasts alike.
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