Historical Hockey Memorabilia Spring 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/12/2012
Czechoslovakian great Josef Cerny's haul of IIHF European championship medals offered here totals 5, including his 1961 gold! Also included are silver medals from 1966 and 1968 and a pair of bronze medals from 1964 and 1970. Czechoslovakia claimed gold as the top European team at the 1961 world championships in Switzerland. With a 6-1 mark identical to Canada's Trail Smoke Eaters, Cerny and his teammates lost the world gold by virtue of goal differential but claimed Euro gold ahead of the 5-0-2 U.S.S.R. The Soviets won top Euro honours from 1963-71, leaving Czechoslovakia to pretty much alternate with Sweden for silver and bronze. A 1966 participation medal from the worlds in Yugoslavia and a 1971 Izvestia wooden Russian doll are also included, along with Josef Cerny's signed LOA. All five IIHF European championship medals measure a shade under 2” in diameter (5 mm). The 1961 gold medal has a few light surface marks on the image of the raised goalie. The reverse has adhesive residue from a rectangular sticker. The two bronzes and the 1966 silver have stickers on the reverse with “Cerny” written on them and the 1968 silver has adhesive residue in the outline of a similar removed sticker. The face of the 1966 medal displays the most weathering on these essentially clean and nicely preserved European championship medals.
The 1966 participation medal is weathered along the bottom half of its face. The Russian wooden doll retains nice colours. It displays some surface marks along with a crack along the top.
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