Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2015
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2015
Sunday Gold 1983-84 Pittsburgh Penguins game-worn jersey is photo-matched to Marty McSorley and Bob Errey with video evidence of it being worn by Peter Lee during the 1982-83 season! A screenshot from video shows Lee wearing this jersey on Jan. 1, 1983 with a shoulder to shoulder “Lee” nameplate. Gold thread remnants of that long nameplate remain along with gold thread remnants from a short “Errey” nameplate. McSorley’s photo, likely from the 1983-84 preseason, and a photo of Errey from the 1983-84 season each show slight and distinctive printing anomalies on the vinyl screened Penguins crest on the front. Game wear includes three team repairs, black marks on the front and sleeves, which have board burns and a burn hole with paint transfer on the left sleeve.
The crest anomalies that offer the photo matches for both McSorley and Errey are above the bump on the Penguin’s beak, where the black line touches the outer white shading on the top, and the thin strip of white to the left of the thumb area of the left glove.
There is a chevron-shaped team repair on the left front, a team repair on the right elbow, and another sewing fix on the left sleeve.
Flag tag in the back of the neck is completely washed out.
Up until this point, we weren't able to find any more player photo cards from the same set as the McSorley photo-match. We wanted to find out if the other Penguins players were wearing their own jerseys during that photo shoot. A research was done through all of the 83-84 Penguins programs our consignor could put his hands on and he found the following photo card inserts. The photo shoot was from very early in the 83-84 season and all players were wearing their own Sunday Gold jerseys with the list below.
Herron (wearing # 1)
Buskas (Wearing #7)
McSorley (wearing #10)
Lamoureux (wearing #24)
DeFazio (closeup - can't tell what # he's wearing)
Shedden (wearing #14)
Boutette (wearing #15)
Taylor (wearing #16)
McClelland (wearing #18)
Gardner (wearing #20)
Bullard (wearing # 22)
Brickley (wearing #23)
Bulley (wearing #24)
Carlyle (Wearing #25)
Dion (wearing #29)
Tebbutt (wearing #34)
Romano (wearing # 35)
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