Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2021
Several intriguing seldom-seen collectibles join those in our title here, with four two-card panels of long bookmark-like (die-cut) cards featuring the Campbell’s Soup “Kids” depicted in different activities, including hockey, having survived in beauty near mint condition and still in their albeit torn/tattered glassine envelope leading the way. They date back to 1931-32, while during the ’68-69 season is when folks could find little plastic marbles in boxes of Post Cereal. A Montreal Canadiens team set of 15 features mostly NM and MINT examples, while a couple of seasons later is when little blue and red plastic hockey sticks were Post premiums. No sticks are present but seven scarce “cards” with pictures/decals to decorate the sticks are present, including ones featuring Bobby Orr and fellow Hall of Famers Brad Park and Norm Ullman. Also contributing are those of Ron Ellis, Bobby Rousseau and Dennis Hull (2). Ellis meanwhile gives skating tips on a little plastic record that is still attached to a piece of a ’70-71 Canada Dry cardboard carry case. Little brown plastic shields total 22 and are said to have been designed for ’72-73 O-Pee-Chee Player Crest push-out inserts. From ’74-75 is an unopened pack of Topps Cloth Stickers, the back of a Lipton’s Soup box (with cards of Keon and Guevremont) and a wrapper to a scarce Swell Bubble Gum hockey stick and puck game. A Topps hockey wrapper/pack comes with a COA from The Topps Vault that reads “1980 Topps Hockey Prototype Wax Pack”, with an early-‘80s set of 24 Vancouver Canucks cards still in their Silverwood Dairies original packaging and in three-card panels – neat. Backtracking chronologically, there are three (of six) Shopsy cards (approx. 4” by 4-1/2”) with “Wally Stanowski Says” starting off hockey stories and somewhat helping to date them (Winnipeg-born Stanowski played in the NHL throughout the 1940s), with a team set (6) of little plastic hockey figures looking several decades old. A ’53-54 Parkies album is one of the nicest we recall seeing, with yes, 11 slotted cardboard “sheets” present. Two sheets of team logo decals to decorate ’64-65 Toronto Star “albums” and a mailing envelope are present, with a few surprises to discover. Completing is a limited 1992 Classic Draft Picks “Gold” set in a snazzy wooden box, with autographed cards of Manon Rheaume and the Bure brothers among the cards inside and a box full of miscellaneous flattened O-Pee-Chee and other card boxes with OPC box bottom cards and the like the attraction, along with sheets of cards inserted into price guide and card-related magazines from the 1990s. Fun, fun awaits the high bidder here.
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