Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2017
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/7/2017
A well-cherished keepsake currently celebrating its 80 birthday, we have an exceptional autograph booklet that miraculously features signatures from all 8 contemporary NHL clubs, with 130 signatures present including 38 deceased HOFers! Each team grouping has been executed on back-to-back pages, with single teams spread over a pair of facing pages. The majority of the signatures have been executed in ink including fountain pen, with just the Maroons, Leafs and Americans team-signed pages appearing in pencil. As mentioned, 130 signatures are present with 38 deceased HOFers including Ebbie Goodfellow, Herbie Lewis, Jack Adams, Syd Howe and Marty Barry from the Red Wings, Tiny Thompson, Dit Clapper, Sylvio Mantha, Milt Schmidt, Cooney Weiland, Porky Dumart, Hooley Smith, Bun Cook and Bill Cowley from the Bruins, Carl Voss and Lionel Conacher from the Maroons, Ching Johnson, Lynn Patrick, Art Coulter, Babe Pratt, Neil Colville and Bill Cook from the Rangers, Toe Blake, Babe Siebert and Aurele Joliat from the Canadiens, Red Horner, Happy Day, Gordie Drillon, Charlie Conacher, Syl Apps, Busher Jackson, Turk Broda, Dick Irvin and King Clancy from the Leafs, Nelson Stewart, Dave Schriner and Red Dutton from the Americans and Earl Seibert from the Black Hawks. Trying to locate a comparable vintage specimen with each club represented from the same season, would be an exercise in futility.
The majority of the signatures are in exceptional condition, protected from decades of light within their closed pages, with the majority of the ink signatures dark and bold. The 4" x 5" autograph booklet itself has seen better days, with considerable condition issues including wear to the spine, with a number of pages hanging on by a thread… literally (the left side page of the Americans’ signature grouping is detached). Other highlights within this treasured memento include Cecil Hart, “Mud” Bruneteau, Charlie Sands, Red Beattie, Marty Burke, Mike Karakas, Mush March, Bill Beveridge, Davie Kerr, Ott Heller, Wilf Cude, Pit Lepine, Buzz Boll, Joe Lamb, Hap Emms and Lorne Carr.
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