Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
Today is another long day in what is going to be a week of long days. I still have stacks of cool cards from the National to scan and show, but my time and energy is in short supply. So in the meantime, here’s another 1963-64 Parkie, this one of Bruce MacGregor.
Today’s 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey card is of Hall of Fame player Marcel Pronovost. I still got a few more of these Parkies to show off over the next few days, so stay tuned.
A freelance web design project is keeping me busy this week, so here’s a quick update. This 1963-64 Parkhurst card of Lawrence Jeffrey brings my set to 41 cards. Like the card of Doug Barkley, this card is damn near perfect.
Forty! The Big Four-Oh. I now have 40 cards for my 1963-64 Parkhurst set. Douglas Barkley here (card #60 in the set) is the 40th card towards completing my set. I started putting it together just over 3 years ago.
This card is actually higher grade than most of the other Parkies in my set build. I found a dealer who has a lot of Red Wings that were in great shape. He was willing to cut me a deal if I bought several of them. Most of the Parkies I get are in the $5 to $10 range and have one or more defects. It seemed like a good idea to get commons and semi-stars in EXMT shape for $15 each, like this one here. Other than the yellowing, which is common for these cards, I really don’t see any flaws.
As you have probably guessed by now, I made a lot of headway towards completing my 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey set. Get ready to see lots of Red Wings in my next few Parkie posts, as I met a dealer at The National from Michigan who happened to have a bunch of ‘Wings cards from this set–all in surprisingly great shape.
Other than the stain on the back, which actually looks worse in the scan than in real life, this card of Vic Stasuik is in great shape. Four sharp corners, good gloss on the front and no creases.
This Terry Harper rookie card brings me another step closer to completing my 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey set. I now have 37 out of 99 cards.
Hope y’all aren’t getting tired of looking at 1963-64 Parkies, because I picked up quite a few of them at The National last weekend. Here’s the other rookie card of Gordon “Red” Berenson–there is also a card of him skating, which I posted last week. Montreal and Toronto players each got two cards in this set, while Detroit players only got a card each.
And that’s another card that brings me a step closer to completing the set of my dreams.
Tomorrow, I will post some newer cards for those of you who be hatin’ on the vintage 🙂
Lazy Saturday! The rain outside has unmotivated me from going to my boxing class or running any errands. So I will stay inside and work on more content for this blog. In the meantime, enjoy this 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey card of Robert “Bobby” Rosseau.
Here’s another 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey card that I purchased at The National. Ron Ingram played 114 games in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers. He later went on to be the head coach of the Indianapolis Racers of the WHA.
One great thing about going to The National for all 5 days is that I was able to “punch out” of life for 5 days. No work. No familial responsibilities.Even put off meeting with a friend from out of town for a day (sorry, Phil).
But the downside to all that is that life is back in full swing. I have stacks of old cards to put away, packs of new cards to open and tons of awesome cards to blog about–but no free time to enjoy them.
So right now, here is a 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey card of Claude Provost.
Enjoy the card. I hope to have some video up later today.