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Hockey collectors...Do we have a Honus Wagner ?

zsz70zsz70 Posts: 541 ✭
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The baseball collecting world has the Honus Wagner card.
There are other cards that are scarce( Eddie Plank, etc. etc.),
and are well recognized in the baseball hobby as desirable, vintage
gems that would cost and arm and a leg to obtain.

I don't believe we have that in the hockey world.
I can not think of a card that even comes close to the
profile of a Wagner.
Even a card like the 1955-56 quaker oats #1 Harry Lumley along
with #33, and 34 that were traded in for prizes, never hve received
the "immortal" status that the Wagner and other baseball cards have.
These cards sell for 5k in VG condition if ever found, yet most hardly
even know about them.

So why doesn't hockey have a card that stands out like the Wagner ?
Does such a card/ or cards exist .

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  • GoSoxBoSoxGoSoxBoSox Posts: 1,103
    The 1924 V145-2 Bert Corbeau #25. There is one on the POP report which is in PSA 7.

    The cookie company held this card back much like Goudey did with the 1933 Lajoie. You could only get the card if you wrote a nasty letter.

    As the story goes you could redeem a full set for a prize. When the set was redeemed each card in the set was stamped with a Leprechaun (aka: Bulldog, Purple Shamrock) stamp. After a card was stamped it was then disposed of. The thing about this promotional contest was the company short-printed #25 Bert Corbeau, a card so rare that its not even listed for a price in the Charlton Standard Catalogue of hockey cards. (It just says extremely rare instead of the value) This would make it next to impossible to easily finish the set and would make the customer buy more product to try and finish the set to get the prize ( not known ). Because there were so few #25's not many sets were redeem. Which means not many cards were stamped with the famous Leprechaun. Since the company had no more use for the redeemed sets, most were destroyed. I have heard over the years rumors of the existence of these cards but had never seen them untuil about 2 years ago when the infamous CrazyCanuck auctioned off a hand full of them he got off an old-timer.

    I own two of them. Hall of Famers Babe Dye and George Boucher. PSA graded both PSA 3 MK.
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  • goodriddance189goodriddance189 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭
    my vote would go to the Maple Crispette Sprague Cleghorn.

    similar intentional short printing method, plus it features a hall of famer
  • goodriddance189goodriddance189 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭
    Tom! welcome back man
  • murcerfanmurcerfan Posts: 2,329 ✭✭
    my nominee is the 1936-7 OPC series d Turk Broda

    alternate candidates would be the Howie Morenz from the same set or his rookie card.
  • grilloj39grilloj39 Posts: 370 ✭✭
    IMO, the "holy grail" of hockey cards is the c-55 georges vezina card.
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  • aro13aro13 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭
    While I agree nothing comes close to the profile of the Wagner card there are some desirable cards.
    On the open market in a PSA 8 or 9 what hockey card would command the most dollars? The Corbeau certainly would be up there. I would have to think the demand might be highest for the three Quaker Oats cards 1, 33, and 37. A lot of collectors need those cards to complete that set, and there are plenty of dealers that want that card. I suppose that these cards are similar to the Wagner in that collectors would pay significant dollars for them regardless of condition, because they are so seldom seen.
    The Vezina might top them all in high grade.
    Interesting that murcerfan mentioned the Broda. How much is BMW asking for his Broda - is it an SGC 86 or higher?
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