Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
Originating from just before the first World War and featuring the scholastic and athletic pursuits of the Ivy League, we have a copy of the Princeton Pictorial Review Vols I and II from 1913-14 featuring Hobey Baker, with this actually a bound volume of 17 different issues of the Review. At approx 8” x 11”, the heavy hardcover feature’s “The Princeton Pictorial Review” in gold leaf over the cover, with a signature and bookplate from a former owner over the front page. Loaded with pertinent Princeton photos including a Class of 1914 photo (Baker is there somewhere) and a pair of football team photos, other photos containing Baker include 4 football game-action photos, two individual photos of Baker in his football uniform, a Princeton hockey team photo, a hockey game-action photo and an individual photo of Baker in his hockey uniform.
The spine shows wear both inside and out, with the top section slightly detached within the interior. There is also a bit of fraying in spots to the cloth boards. Despite these issues, the bound volumes all remain firmly attached, with just toning to the interior pages.
Earning almost mythical status and heavily collected despite the intervening century since his passing, Hobart Amory Hare Baker was born in Pennsylvania just before the close of the Victorian era, in 1892. Hailing from a prominent Philadelphia family and the epitome of an attractive blond-haired All-American, Hobey excelled at sport while attending St. Paul's School in Concord, later starring on both the ice rink and gridiron for Princeton. Three successful years would be spent in the Ivy League, with his most notable accomplishments never fumbling a punt for the Tigers, and never losing to Yale. Baker would then add heroics to his growing legend, receiving the Croix de Guerre from the French government for his service as a fighter pilot during the Great War, later losing his life in December of 1918 during a test flight. Widely recognized by contemporaries as one of the greatest natural athletes, Baker would be one of the first nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame upon its founding in 1945, and the only American.
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