August 6, 2020: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/6/2020
Offered is an attractive high-grade 1968 Topps Hockey complete set, essentially Ex-Mt to Near-Mint, with nine cards above to Near-Mint to Mint and barely more than a half dozen below Excellent. It is headlined by slabbed examples of the two key cards from the issue: No. 2 Orr – PSA 5 and No. 89 Parent – PSA 5. It comes out to roughly 56 percent Near-Mint or better, 36 percent Excellent to Ex-Mt and about 8 percent below, mostly to VG-Ex. A very significant number of cards have the kind of centering that might prompt thoughts of an upgrade, though not all of those would be severe enough to dictate a formal off-center designation; four cards are miscut. Breakdown of keys: No. 1 Cheevers – Near-Mint o/c, 6 Sanderson – Excellent, 7 Esposito – Nr-Mt, 16 Hull – Nr-Mt o/c, 20 Mikita – Ex-Mt, 28 Delvecchio – Nr-Mt o/c, 29 Howe – Ex o/c, 34 Sawchuck – Nr-Mt to Mt o/c, 56 Worsley – Nr-Mt-Plus, 61 Beliveau – Nr-Mt o/c, 64 Richard – VG-Ex, 72 Gilbert – Ex, 77 Ratelle – Ex-Mt, 104 Bathgate – Ex, 111 Hall – Nr-Mt o/c, 121 Checklist – VG, 123 Horton – Nr-Mt o/c and 131 Ullman – Nr-Mt.
1968 Topps Hockey High-Grade Set, Orr and Parent – PSA 5 (132)
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