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Hockey community lost a great guy

hockeycrazyhockeycrazy Posts: 309 ✭✭
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I had not seen this here but thought it important to post. If you collect hockey, you knew Gerry Chartrand and if you knew Gerry, you knew he was just a great guy. Quite simply THE leading hockey dealer and all around great guy passed last week.


CHARTRAND, Gerry
1945 - 2014
It is with great sadness that we announce that Gerry passed away as he lived, with peace and dignity on August 10, 2014. He is survived by his adoring partner in life, Brenda. Former wife and mother of their two children, Diane (Pyves). Devoted father to Melanie (Shawn) and Jason (Lisa); cherished "Papa" to Melissa (Marc), Jodi, Austin, Amanda, Cameron and great-grandson Chase. Gerry will be remembered for his kind and generous heart, for his vitality, keen intellect, phenomenal memory, fun-loving sense of humour with an exceptional, indomitable spirit, along with his lifelong passion for the Blues (music). Gerry was an exceptional, brilliant, well-respected Vintage Hockey Card vendor who shared his knowledge and expertise with many of his business relationships. He considered it important to make a personal connection with each and every person that he met. He was also a devoted advocate of animal welfare. Gerry was a true gentleman, whose kindness extended way beyond his family members. He will be sadly missed and never forgotten by his numerous friends, business associates, neighbours and extensive family. A Funeral Mass, in the presence of his ashes, will take place on Saturday, August 16. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. followed by the Service at 1:00 p.m. Please join us to celebrate Gerry's life with refreshments and light lunch served in the reception area. In lieu of flowers, donations to Taylor-Birks Foundation, 2475 St. Patrick Street, Montreal, QC H3K 1B3, would be appreciated by Gerry and his family.

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    I hadn't heard. Thank you for posting. Very sad indeed.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • charrigancharrigan Posts: 2,293
    Sad. Never met Gerry, but bought many cards from him. Quality dealer. One of the best.
  • 54topps54topps Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭
    Very sad news. I heard about this a few days ago. Bought from him many times. A legend in the hockey world. RIP Gerry!
  • LefthanderLefthander Posts: 97 ✭✭
    What was his ID in the PSA hockey Set Registry?
  • sideordertoddsideordertodd Posts: 262 ✭✭
    Was he the gentleman at the National in the past that had all of his hockey cards displayed behind plastic on a wall of sorts and also used the plastic to cover his cards on the tables? I remember him for that and the fact he had a lot of vintage hockey cards in nice shape with none of them being graded.
  • hockeycrazyhockeycrazy Posts: 309 ✭✭
    Was he the gentleman at the National in the past that had all of his hockey cards displayed behind plastic on a wall of sorts and also used the plastic to cover his cards on the tables? I remember him for that and the fact he had a lot of vintage hockey cards in nice shape with none of them being graded.


    No, I don't think so. I think you are describing Len Pottie - a minor leaguer compared to Gerry.
  • TomiTomi Posts: 643 ✭✭✭
    I dealt with him many times at the show in Toronto and online. He was a great asset to the community. Can't think of a single person who didn't like him.
  • FrozencaribouFrozencaribou Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gerry Chartrand was one of a kind. A guy that was a collector at heart and transitioned between the mail order world of the 80s and 90s to the TPG dominated landscape of this current era. He had time for everyone and would always try to satisfy his broad network of vintage buyers. I can't think of a comparison in the vintage baseball community. The vintage hockey community is much smaller and he was at or around the center of much of what was happening within it.

    It will be interesting to see if the vintage populations slow, as he was responsible for a sizable portion of the populations of vintage sets over the years, especially early Parkhurst.

    RIP Gerry.

    -Nathanael



  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Ten years ago I bought my first Gretzky OPC PSA card off eBay (PSA 9!).

    A forum member contacted me via eBay and informed me that the auction was a fake and the picture was snagged from Gerry's page.

    ...this was a few hours after I sent the seller $1,000 Western Union as a down payment.

    I contacted Gerry and he confirmed that he was the real owner of the card. He took $1,000 off his price and I picked it up for an incredible deal. This is how he rolled.

    That discount made me buy many more cards from him when I collected hockey.

    Nobody else out there like him, hands down.

    RIP Gerry.
  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭✭
    RIP

    I always look for Gerry's for quality cards.

    Also Jasons Sports cards

    You can find nice vintage hi end cards for reasonable .....

    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Was he the gentleman at the National in the past that had all of his hockey cards displayed behind plastic on a wall of sorts and also used the plastic to cover his cards on the tables? I remember him for that and the fact he had a lot of vintage hockey cards in nice shape with none of them being graded.


    No, I don't think so. I think you are describing Len Pottie - a minor leaguer compared to Gerry. >>



    Sounds like Len Pottie for sure..
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