This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/2/2022
The O-Pee-Chee Gum Company got its start in 1911 when brothers John McKinnon (J.K.) McDermid and Duncan Hugh (D.H.) McDermid started to manufacture chewing gum. According to O-Pee-Chee literature, both brothers had been in the gum business and knew the business very well. The brothers had worked for C.R. Somerville, a gum manufacturing plant in London, Ontario. After the Somerville firm was sold to American Chicle Company in 1908 and the plant moved to Toronto, the McDermid brothers took over the box division and eventually purchased it in 1910 (Somerville Paper Box Limited). Shortly thereafter, they started O-Pee-Chee and produced their first box of Gipsy gum.The name O-Pee-Chee is an Ojibwe word meaning "the Robin" as is found in The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It also happened to be the name of McDermid's summer cottage in Grand Bend, Ontario. The offered 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee Hockey Posters Complete set on six uncut sheets originally traces its roots to the OPC archive auction. Featured are six (6) uncut sheets that feature four poster to a sheet. The set contains all of the stars of the day most notably Orr, Hull, Esposito and Lafleur. The sheets are in tremendous condition considering their fragile with an overall NM or better appearance. A tremendous item to get framed up!