This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/22/2019
Legend has it that Parkhurst Products Ltd. issued 14 million hockey cards in 1951-52. That number corresponded to one for every man, women and child in Canada at the time. Regardless of how many were actually made, these 1.75 inch by 2.5 inch blank-backed cards were unceremoniously randomized in a cement mixer and before five randomly chosen selections were manually placed in one of four different colorful boxes, which one could then buy for a nickel. Not surprisingly, Ted Kennedy, the captain of the Stanley Cup Champion Toronto Maples Leafs, is prominently featured on this “wrapper.” Although we occasionally encounter wrapper's from this inaugural release they are always usually green, Blue or purple, and even occasionally a wrapper that has been actually cut from 1951 uncut sheets which actually may have been used to house cards for the 1952/53 release. We have never encountered this rare red package and have spoken with several long-time collectors who also haven't seen this wrapper!