Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/29/2025
Released a year after Wayne Gretzky arrived on the NHL scene and changed the overall landscape of the game, O-Pee-Chee’s 1980-81 hockey card effort is complete at 396 cards, and is highlighted by Wayne’s second-year card, his four other appearances and the rookie cards of Hall of Famers Mark Messier, Ray Bourque and Mike Gartner. We have two near complete 1980-81 O-Pee-Chee sets. One is missing just card #98 Brown, while the other is missing just two cards, with #112 Roberts and #335 Edwards. The set missing one card has an overall condition range of VG/EX to EX including #250 Gretzky second year card, #289 Messier rookie, #195 Gartner rookie, #87 Gretzky AS and #2 Bourque RB, with the additional star cards to include #3 Gretzky RB EX to EX-MT 95% off centered, #67 Goulet rookie G to VG with bad corners, #140 Bourque rookie G to VG small hairline crease and #182 Gretzky team checklist EX/MT to NRMT unmarked. For the checklists, #123 is heavily marked, #257 is unmarked, with creases to the top and bottom borders, and #396 unmarked, with crease and bad corners. The set missing two cards has an overall condition range of VG to VG/EX including #87 Gretzky AS corner wear and #140 Bourque rookie off center with corner wear, with the additional star cards to include #2 Bourque RB EX spot on back light corner wear, #3 Gretzky RB VG/EX to EX 100% off centered, #67 Goulet rookie VG/EX to EX top corner dings, #182 Gretzky team checklist VG/EX to EX unmarked, off centered 90%, #195 Gartner rookie VG/EX to EX light corner wear, #250 Gretzky second year card VG/EX to EX light corner wear and #289 Messier rookie EX off center 70/30, small ding bottom left corner. For the checklists, #123 has 1 box marked plus crease and 1 erased, #257 creased, marked and erased in 2 boxes on reverse, and #396 unmarked with poor corners.
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