Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/24/2025
Winning a pair of Stanley Cups during a thirteen (13) year career as a professional hockey player before adding two (2) more during his long tenure as the bench boss of the Boston Bruins, Art Ross would be involved in professional hockey from 1905 to 1954 and would be inducted into the hallowed halls of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1949. An innovator for the game, creating a style of puck still used today, and advocating for an improved style of goal nets that would be used in the NHL for forty (40) years, Ross would donate the Art Ross Trophy to the league in 1947, awarded annually to the NHL's leading regular season scorer. Offered here, we present this vintage 1933 image of Ross. A black-and-white posed image showing the figure in a suit-and-tie plus black overcoat standing on the bench with the ice surface in the background, the photograph measures roughly 8" x 10" and has a date stamp reading "MAR 15 1933" over its reverse in blue ink. Also sporting a number of pencil notations over the reverse, including one reading "Ross" and another reading "Art Ross - Hockey - Manager - Boston Bruins", the remains of a press label are found towards the bottom of the image, appearing to have been torn off at some point or another. In overall good condition with some wear present to the corners and edges all the way around, the surface on the front shows some creasing and imperfections/scratches, including to the image itself over Ross' hands while some toning/small spot stains appear over the reverse. Deemed to be an "AUTHENTIC Type l photograph by PSA, the image is housed in an oversized PSA holder that remains in excellent condition.
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