This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/5/2017
Projecting a slightly darker shade of blue than the O-Pee-Chee variation, which amplifies imperfections along the sides and endpoints and makes high-grade examples more difficult to get, the featured Topps rookie card of all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky comes extremely close to flawless.To the naked eye, the whole perimeter looks perfect from tip to tip, and even under strong magnification you'd be hard pressed to find anything to point to that would sway you from a GEM MINT opinion. The image of "The Great One," staring to the northeast as if even he's impressed with the corners, is delivered with bold color and precise registration, matched in quality by powder blue coloring on the reverse. Over 5,000 have been graded by PSA with just 2 earning a GEM MINT label. As for what prevents this example from becoming the third, your guess is as good as ours.