Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2014
Spellbinding collection of 11 vintage Chicago Black Hawks team photos dates from the early years of the Windy City's Original Six team. Beginning with a photo of the 1927-28 sophomore edition of the Black Hawks featuring HOFers Barney Stanley and Hugh Lehman, more Chicago team photos from the end of the Roaring '20s through the dawn of World War II feature the likes of Dick Irvin, Chuck Gardiner, Howie Morenz, Mush March, Johnny Gotselig, Art Coulter and Earl Seibert, right up to Doug Bentley as a rookie with the 1939-40 Black Hawks. Amazing grouping of nicely-preserved early Black Hawks team photos. 1927-28 with team names on a caption glued on the back and a newspaper morgue stamp has clear tape repairs on the edges of the reverse, torn and / or cut pieces on the left edge, measures 7” x 11”;
1928-29 with team members’ names handwritten in black ink on the reverse has “Sievers Com’l Photographer St. Louis” embossed in the bottom left corner, 8x10;
1929-30 training camp photo has photo caption glued on reverse and team members’ names handwritter in pencil, newspaper morgue Oct. 25, 1929 date stamp, 8x10;
1929-30 team photo montage has “From: Chas. A. Braun, Commercial Photographer” stamp on the reverse with Chicago address, 8x10:
1930-31 team photo montage with Chas. A. Braun stamp on reverse has pinholes in four corners, 8x10;
1932-33 training camp team photo has “10-18-32” date handwritten in pencil on reverse with glued AP photo caption, 8x10;
1932-33 team photo has team members’ names handwritten on the reverse in black ink with “11-32” date handwritten in pencil, 8x10;
1933-34 team photo has “World’s Champs 1933/34 Stanley Cup Winners” handwritten on the reverse in black ink, 4” x 5 1/2";
1934-35 team photo with Morenz has light creases, Wide World Photos caption date stamped “Mar 8 1935” glued to the reverse, and Philadelphia Inquirer photo morgue Mar 9 1937 date stamp, 7” x 9”;
1938-39 team photo has “1938-39” date corrected with white-out handwritten on bottom margin and caption with team members’ names taped to the reverse, 8x10;
“1939-40” is handwritten in red ink on top margin of training camp team photo mounted on cardboard backing with team members’ names handwritten in pencil on reverse, 8x10.
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