Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2011
Amazing and massive master photograph of the team that became known as “the Silver Seven”, the 1903 Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Senators. This incredible piece of hockey history is this original studio master of the fabulous team photo montage created by Pittaway Photo of Ottawa to honor the Canadian capital’s hockey champions. To avoid jeopardizing the team’s amateur status, a Senators executive presented each member of the Cup champions with a silver nugget and that, combined with the fact that teams iced a seventh player, a rover, at the time led to the adoption of the Ottawa club’s immortal nickname. Led by Frank McGee’s scoring exploits, the Senators won a two-game series against the Montreal Victorias to claim the CAHL title and the Stanley Cup. The team that would soon become known as the Silver Seven launched its dynasty of the first decade of the 20th century by defending a Stanley Cup challenge by the Rat Portage (soon-to-be-renamed Kenora) Thistles. Ottawa claimed both games in the two-game challenge on home ice at Dey’s Arena, with Billy Gilmour contributing a hat trick in a 6-2 win on March 12 and McGee scoring his third and fourth goals of the series in a 4-2 victory two days later. A photo of the original Stanley Cup sits in the middle of the frame above a portrait of team president Percy Buttler and book ended by its other awards, the CAHL Championship Cup and the Dewar Shield. McGee, Gilmour and his brothers, Dave and Suddy, are pictured along with team captain Harvey Pulford and fellow Senators John Hutton, Harry Westwick, Arthur Fraser, Charles Spittal, Percy Sims, Frank Wood and Arthur Moore, all wearing their distinctive barper-pole hockey sweaters, in individual portrait photos mounted above and on either side of the awards. Coach Alf Smith is pictured in the upper left with trainer Pete Green in the upper right and the team’s executives appear in two rows along the bottom. “Ottawa Hockey Club, Champions of the World and Holders of the Stanley Cup, 1903” is beautifully lettered beneath Buttler’s portrait and all of the individual photographs are mounted on the original hand painted matte background, with “Pittaway Photo, Ottawa” written in the bottom right corner. With a huge total display of 28” x 35 ½”, this one-of-a-kind original master photograph of the 1903 Stanley Cup champion “Silver Seven” remains mounted in its vintage and ornately-detailed 35” x 42 ½” wood frame. This truly incredible photo masterpiece of hockey’s first Stanley Cup dynasty will come with a letter of authenticity from Classic Auctions.
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