Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2015
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2015
Impressive lot indeed of 3 separate, vintage sheets filled back in the day by the signatures of household Leaf players and a few Leaf coaches. From the 1948-49 season is a 3 ½” x 5” paper signed by deceased HOFers Kennedy, Gardner, Watson, coach Happy Day, and 4 others, while a 4 ½” x 5 ½” sheet from the late-‘40s, early-‘50s includes Kennedy, Watson, Max Bentley, and 9 others. Rounding the lot out is a circa 1957-58 Leafs program cover with Tim Horton on the cover, signed by 16 including HOFers Horton and Armstrong, plus Duff, Chadwick, Harris, coach Billy Reay, and 10 others. With all signatures clear and legible, it’s a definite treasure trove.
Breaking the 3-piece lot down even further, the 1948-49 group of Leafs signatures include, along with deceased HOFers Hap Day (ind. 1961, dec. 1990), Ted Kennedy (ind. 1966, dec. 2009), Harry Watson (ind. 1994, dec. 2002), Cal Gardner, Garth Boesch, Joe Klukay, Howie Meeker, and Jim Thomson. The late-40s, early-50s paper measures 4 ½” x 5 ½”, and along with the aforementioned HOFers Kennedy and Watson is also also Max Bentley (ind. 1966, dec. 1984), plus Vic Lynn, Cal Gardner, Sid Smith, John McCormack, Ray Timgren, Bill Ezinicki, Gus Mortson, Joe Klukay, and Howie Meeker. And from the late-50s program cover are HOFers Horton (ind. 1977, dec. 1974), Armstrong (ind. 1975), Bob Pulford (ind. 1991), and Frank Mahovlich (ind. 1981), plus Morrison, Duff, Barry and Brian Cullen, Sloan, Masnick, Stewart, Harris, Aldcorn, Chadwick, Baun, and coach Billy Reay. The cover signatures are signed in either blue ink or pencil, while the earlier sigs are mostly fountain pen.
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