Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/28/2023
Hailing from a year that saw one of the most hyped up rookie classes in the hobby's history, the 2005-06 season saw the entrance of surefire future Hall of Famers Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby into the National Hockey League along with other keys such as Henrik Lundqvist, Dion Phaneuf, Corey Perry, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Zach Parise, Ryan Getzlaf, Max Talbot, Thomas Vanek, Jeff Carter, Jimmy Howard and Mikko Koivu along with numerous others as well. Offered here, we present this large collection of cards from Upper Deck's 2005-06 Black Diamond release that comes from a total of twelve (12) boxes that were opened up by our consignor in a hunt for the rookie cards of both Ovechkin and Crosby, which aren't included in the lot. Including most of the contents that were produced upon the opening of the twelve (12) boxes, a good portion of the insert cards that were pulled are present including "Gemography" autograph cards of Patrice Bergeron and Marcel Hossa, "Black Diamond Jersey" cards of Jaromir Jagr ("041/100"), Marian Gaborik, Joe Thornton and Martin St. Louis and "Rookie Gems" cards of Andrew Alberts (Triple), Andy Wozniewski (Triple), David Leneveu (Triple), Jeff Carter (Quad), Cam Ward (Triple), Jeff Woywitka (Triple), Ryan Getzlaf (Quad), Jussi Jokinen (Triple), Brandon Bochenski (Triple), Peter Nokelainen (Triple), Niklas Nordgren (Triple), Gilbert Brule (Quad) and Wojtek Wolski (Quad - "061/100"). For the rest of the lot, made up entirely of base card offerings, "quadruple" diamond parallel's total five (5) and include the likes of Jagr, Hasek, Gaborik, Kovalchuk and St. Louis while "triple" diamond specimens come in at thirty-five (35) strong (including doubles) and feature names such as Bergeron, Primeau, Datsyuk, Nabokov, Khabibulin, Naslund, Roenick, Tanguay, Lecavalier, Koivu, Hossa, Modano, Allison, Belfour, Spezza, Heatley, Shanahan and others. Also including parallel cards of Alyn McCauley (Red - "026/100") and Martin Lapointe (Red - "027/100" and Green - "19/25"), "double" diamond base cards are present for players like Fleury, Fedorov, Ryder, Havlat, Linden, MacInnis, Cujo, Weight, Lindros, Satan, Gigure, Pronger, Hull, Alfredsson, Turco, Marleau, Lidstrom, Robitaille, Cheechoo, Luongo and numerous others while totalling out to seventy-one (71). WIth majority of the cards exhibiting light corner wear along with some showing a light hit mark/dent to their corners, the group is excellent for someone looking to set build or a dealer looking for inventory. Additionally, the twelve (12) empty boxes the cards came in are also included in the original Upper Deck case.
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