Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
The Maple Leafs were on their way to their third straight Stanley Cup title and Stan Mikita his first of four scoring championships when cards like this were pulled from Topps packs. Found here in complete 66-card form, this assembly of 1963-64 Topps cards presents largely in the uniform high-grade range of EX to EX-MT for its effort. All found in raw ungraded form, the contingent is led by key cards Chicago Black Hawks teammates Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita, who's cardboard is found at #33 and #36 on the checklist respectively, in the aforementioned EX to EX-MT condition neighbourhood with both showing very light corner wear. Also featuring other EX to EX-MT cards of 45-Plante (very light corner wear at bottom left), 57-Gilbert, 63-Ratelle and 66-Checklist (unmarked - tiny bottom right corner ding), the example of card #47 picturing Doug Harvey over the front falls into the vicinity of EX condition, displaying a very small ding at the top right. Featuring VG-EX to EX scope cards of 21-Bruins Team (light corner wear), 43-Black Hawks Team (light top border scratch), 46-Villemure (light corner wear) and 65-Rangers Team (tiny corner dings), the keys are finished off by VG to VG-EX proximity examples of 2-Johnson RC (tiny surface wrinkle/crease) and 23-Hall (print line in middle of card). For the rest of the set, the likes of 3-Mohns, 4-Johnson, 5-Boivin, 7-Green, 8-Westfall, 10-Oliver, 14-Leiter, 19-Kennedy, 20-Kurtenbach, 22-Reay, 24-DeJordy, 27-Hillman, 28-MacNeil, 29-Young, 30-Van Impe, 32-Turner, 35-Balfour, 37-McDonald, 42-McKenzie, 48-Howell, 49-Langlois, 50-Neilson, 51-Cahan, 52-Bathgate, 53-McKenney, 54-Hadfield, 55-Ingarfield and 61-Fonteyne are seen as being in the range of EX to EX-MT while the cards of 6-McCord, 9-Burns, 15-Hebenton, 16-Gendron, 25-Pilote, 31-Fleming, 34-Hay, 38-Wharram, 40-Murphy, 41-Maki, 44-Sullivan, 56-Henry, 58-Goyette, 59-Marshall, 60-Meissner, 62-Schinkel and 64-Johns are viewed in the scope of VG-EX to EX. Rounded out by VG to VG-EX cardboard of 1-Schmidt, 12-Williams, 13-Prentice, 17-Rivers and 18-Toppazzini, two cards exist in the realm of G condition to conclude the group, those of 26-Vasko and 39-Nesterenko. Additionally, card #11 of Johnny Bucyk appears autographed over the front with a blue ballpoint pen ink signature.
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