Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/24/2025
Rare and very difficult to locate, hockey sticks produced during the early part of the century - especially quality specimens - are sparsely found even in advanced collections. This scarce survivor is worthy of admiration. A one-piece model typical in style, the stick has a short 43" shaft and thick blade that thins as you ascend to the top edge. Found in an abandoned house in Kingston, Nova Scotia, according to our consignor, the stick was examined by hockey historian David Foster Carter who believed it to be a sugar maple wood model carved by hand and made by the Mi'kmaq people of the Atlantic provinces just after the turn of the century. While this is entirely possible, there are no makers marks on the stick, and it shows use and wear from age, but no damage or unsightly wear/marks. There is an "H" handwritten in pencil to the upper shaft, and an area on the lower shaft with the wood slightly lighter as there appears to have been a strand of tape affixed at one time. This is a choice example that any historian of collector would be especially pleased to own. A wooden display case accompanies, and to save shipping, the winning bidder can request the stick be sent without the case.
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