Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/24/2025
From the early years of the post-expansion era, we have a great collection of late-1960s/early-1970s cards up for your bidding consideration, highlighted by Ken Dryden's rookie. Included in this considerable offering, we have a group of 84 cards both Topps and O-Pee-Chee ranging from 1968-69 to 1972-73, 50+ 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee/Topps booklets and a complete 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee WHA poster set (20).
First, from the 1968-69 Topps set there are 25 cards (averaging EX 16-Richard and 17-Beliveau both creased) including 34-Sawchuk GD to GD+ (top left corner crease, wear bottom left border), 29-Howe VG to VG/EX (corner wear) and 61-Beliveau 3 - all VG/EX to EX, with one diamond cut and corner wear bottom left, one with light corner and surface wear and one with light corner wear. Next, from the 1969-70 O-Pee-Chee set there are 4 cards including 31-Checklist VG/EX to EX (unmarked, mini surface stains), and Howe Mr. Hockey 2 - one is EX to EX/MT (light border discolouration) and one is EX (tiny flaws bottom right) This is followed by 13 cards from the 1969-70 Topps set including 30-P. Esposito EX/MT+ (stamp on back) and 61-Howe FR to GD (crease and print line), 12 cards from the 1970-71 Topps set (averaging EX/MT to NRMT - with 3 to 4 cards EX/MT) including 3-Orr EX to EX/MT (light dirt bottom border) and 29-Howe VG/EX to EX (tiny ding top right), 12 cards from the 1971-72 Topps set (averaging EX/MT to NRMT except 120-Richard surface damage) including 45-DRYDEN ROOKIE VG/EX to EX (top left border dents), 70-Howe EX/MT (tiny dent left border), 100-Orr 2 - one is EX to EX/MT (tiny dent bottom left corner), the other is EX (print mark left side, small ding left border), 111-Checklist GD to VG- (unmarked, right border damage) and 114-Clarke 2nd card EX to EX/MT (small ding bottom right), and finally, 18 cards from the 1972-73 Topps set (averaging EX/MT to NRMT) including 79-Lafleur 2nd card 2 - both EX/MT to NRMT, 100-Orr 2 - both EX/MT to NRMT and 94-Checklist GD (unmarked, crease and right border wear). There is also a number of duplicates for the 1972-73 Topps cards including 56-Mikita (3) and 18-Dionne (6).
The 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee booklets total 55 and average EX/MT except 2 including 1-Hull (damage), with a few having hard small plaster marks. The WHA poster set of 20 all show expected fold lines are issued, with the majority showing moderate handling wear.
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