Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/29/2025
Originally founded in 1946, the Montreal Alouettes have been disbanded and been re-established thrice, with the original iteration of the franchise spanning between 1946 and 1981 while seeing them win a total of four (4) Grey Cup championships and enjoying a decade of dominance during the decade of the 1970s. Offered here, and hailing from the era of the early-to-mid-1960s, is this vintage CFL Montreal Alouettes game-worn jersey. A durene construction garment featuring red and white knit striping accents at both shoulders, the jersey is made by Rawlings and features tattered/partially detached brand plus "Made in USA" labels inside the reverse hem. Having been accented over the sleeves and verso with the number "42" in single layer tackle twill numerals, the stitching affixing the numbers to the jersey have popped in numerous places and in some cases they have been reinforced. Of note, research shows that the Als' wore this style as their main regular season game jerseys between 1959 and 1964 and then in pre-season play between 1965 and 1968. Additionally, our research indicates that nobody on the Alouettes roster wore the number "42" in 1959, 1960 or 1961 while Dick Schnell wore the digit in 1962 which was then worn by Bob Nowalkoski in 1963. Nobody wears the number in 1964 either and we were unable to find any of the pre-season rosters from the years it was in rotation. Having had the sleeves cut below the numbers and displaying with numerous popped seams around the edges of all the numbers as previously mentioned, the jersey shows additional wear via some minor colour bleed throughout, some hit and pressure marks, spot staining throughout, a small tear at the back of the collar and popped seams around the hem.
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