Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/24/2025
Classified as one long continuous set by Jefferson Burdick for his American Card Catalog, and issued over numerous seasons, the 1930s O-Pee-Chee V304 sets featured cards with continuously numbered reverses, with the fronts changing season to season. The breakdown is V304-A (1933-34) cards numbered #1 to #48, V304-B (1933-34) cards numbered #49 to #72, V304-C (1935-36) cards numbered #73 to #96, V304-D (1936-37) cards numbered #97 to #132, and V304-E (1937-38) cards numbered #133 to #180. The 1935-36 V304-C set of 24 included each player available in four different colour sequences of purple, orange, yellow and green, and we offer a near-complete master set of each player in all four colour variations for a total of 95 cards, missing only 74-McGill in green for completion. Divided by colour, highlights for each subset are listed below.
PURPLE: 73-Cude FR to GD (crease and rounded corners), 76-Smith VG/EX to EX (light corner wear), 79-Patrick FR to GD (faded, with corner wear and light stain on back, 81-Barry GD to VG (corner wear), 82-Mantha GD to VG (print marks right side and light corner wear) and 93-Coulter VG to VG/EX (border ding that shows on reverse). The breakdown for the remaining Purple set is 2 cards PR to FR, 5 cards FR to GD, 9 cards GD to VG and 2 cards VG to VG/EX.
ORANGE: 73-Cude PR (faded, large crease and corner wear), 76-Smith PR (multiple large creases), 79-Patrick PR (multiple creases), 81-Barry FR to GD (faded, and light crease bottom right), 82-Mantha PR (multiple large creases) and 93-Coulter VG to VG/EX (light corner wear). The breakdown for the remaining Orange set is 1 card PR to FR, 4 cards FR to GD, 9 cards GD to VG and 4 cards VG to VG/EX.
YELLOW: 73-Cude PR (faded, crease and corner wear), 76-Smith PR (faded, crease and corner wear), 79-Patrick FR to GD (light crease shows on back), 81-Barry PR to FR (multiple light creases and corner wear), 82-Mantha PR to FR (multiple light creases and small stain) and 93-Coulter PR (back has water damage and creases). The breakdown for the remaining Yellow set is 4 cards PR, 6 cards PR to FR, 5 cards FR to GD, 1 card GD to VG, 1 card VG to VG/EX and 1 card VG/EX to EX.
GREEN: 73-Cude A-Authentic (badly faded, corner wear and paper loss top right corner), 76-Smith PR (multiple creases and corner wear), 79-Patrick PR (badly faded with back damage), 81-Barry PR (large crease and corner wear), 82-Mantha PR to FR (dirty, creased and corner wear) and 93-Coulter PR to FR (creases and corner wear). The breakdown for the remaining Green set is 9 cards PR, 3 cards PR to FR and 6 cards FR to GD.
A wonderfully unique opportunity, complete or even near-complete master colour variation sets are rarely ever offered.
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