Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2021
Culled from a weekly Francophone newspaper during the Depression-era, we have an impressive collection of La Presse newsprint photos totaling 98 and spanning from 1927 until 1932, with 37 examples for hockey including Howie Morenz, Georges Vezina, Eddie Shore, Clint Benedict, Charlie Gardiner and others, 23 for baseball including Babe Ruth and 38 for other sports with boxing and football including Gene Sarazen and Sonia Henie. Despite the entire group being trimmed and in low grade, with the majority done right down to the border, the considerable selection of subjects and volume of specimens makes the group especially desirable. To replicate such a collection would be extremely difficult and time consuming.
As mentioned, the group is in low grade, with each example trimmed and most showing additional condition issues including tears, creasing and toning. The breakdown by year for the hockey subjects include; 1927 - Morenz, Joliat, Mantha and Lepine; 1928 – Hainsworth, Gagne, Gardiner, Leduc, Larochelle, Gaudreault, Hart, Langlois, Vezina, Shore, L. Conacher, Patterson, Burke, Stewart and two others; 1929 – Siebert, Day, Benedict, Dutton, Ward, Phillips, F. Boucher, G. Boucher and Georges Mantha; 1931 – Himes and Lolo Couture; 1932 – Finnigan, Cockburn and Arthur Alexandre.
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