Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
Vintage hockey photography from the 1920s and 1930s isn’t easy to locate, especially specimens featuring important NHL clubs. We have a wonderful collection featuring the mighty Montreal Canadiens totaling 17, with a few additional items. Included, we have 5 photos in the 8” x 10” range give or take, with Hainsworth (2), Gagnon, Burke and Joffre Desilets, with the Burke and Gagnon photos having “Club de Hockey Canadien” player profiles affixed to the reverse, listing stats for the player along with personal information. This is followed by 4 photos in the 7 ½” x 9 ½” range including a trio of Rice images, with Burke, Munro, Lepine and Armand Mondou, with the Mondou photo signed. Next, we have 4” x 6” photos for Lepine, Leduc, Gardiner and Mondou (signed), a 5” x 7” image of Odie Cleghorn, a 2 ¼” x 5 ½” photo of Herb Gardiner and two others.
The remaining vintage photos include a small 3 ½” x 8 ½” Rice Canadiens panorama team photo from 1937-38 and a 6 ¼” x 9” Rice photo with suited gentleman. The additional items include 6 4 ½” x 5 ¼” 1920s calendar cut-outs with McDonald, Pitre, Laviolette, Berlinguette, Hall and Billy Coutu, 8 newsprint cutouts affixed to cardboard (1 ½” x 4 ¼” give or take) with Joliat, Hainsworth, Lepine and others, and 9 modern 8” x 10” copies for Blake, Joliat, S. Mantha and others. The vintage photos all vary regarding condition, with some wrinkling to the Lepine, editorial notes over the front with creasing for the Burke, Gagnon and one of the Hainsworth photos, and cut/torn corners for the second Hainsworth and Desilets photos. The Rice team photo shows residue over the reverse with a number of creases, with scrapbook residue over the reverse of each of the 4” x 6” photo. The calendar cut-outs are all thin paper stock with minor handling wear, with the upper right corner torn away and creasing to the Cleghorn photo.
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