Category: 1963-64 Parkhurst

OK, so I’m a little behind posting about The National–and all the cool stuff I got there. Free time after the show each night was spent revising want lists and pulling cards for the other bloggers (and blog readers) that I met up with over the weekend.

Right now, I’m working on one of the several box breaks I did, but in the meantime here is a 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey card of Hank Ciesla.

Like the other two Parkies I bought, this one is in pretty good shape.Just a light crease on the back (between the 51 and the Parkhurst logo). I made a lot of steps towards completing this set, which you will see over the next week or so.

Happy Friday! Before I leave for Day 3 of The National, I thought I’d post another one of the sweet 1963-64 Parkhurst cards I got yesterday. This card of Gordon “Red” Berenson brings me one step closer to completing the 99-card set.

For those of you who hate vintage hockey cards, don’t worry–I’ll post some newer cards tomorrow soon.

On Wednesday and Thursday this week, I attended the 32nd National Sports Collectors Convention, a.k.a. “The National.” I am having a blast–and I still have three more days to go!

I’ll probably be blogging about all the cool stuff I got for the next few weeks, but in the meantime, here is one of my purchases from Thursday: a 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey card of George Armstrong. He spent all 20 years of his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Here is a scan of the back. As you can see, this card is very clean. No stains or creases, just a top right corner that’s a bit dinged.

This is the 30th card for my 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey set. I picked this up at a card show on November 20 for $5. It has a crease on the upper-left corner, but otherwise is not a bad-looking piece of cardboard.

It has been over 3 months since I last acquired a card from the 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey set.That changed this past weekend, as I picked up this J.C. Tremblay card for $6 at the Sun-Times card show.

The condition of this card is pretty nice. No creases, good gloss and just a touch of corner wear.

Now that I have my write-up of the 2010 Chicago Blackhawks Convention behind me, I can get back to “business as usual” on Puck Junk. This card of Allan Stanley is the 28th card in my  1963-64 Parkhurst set.

A few tiny pinholes and a slightly rough corner hardly detract from this 47-year old relic

Jean-Claude Tremblay is the 27th card added to my 1963-64 Parkhurst set. The card is a bit off center (about 70/30), but the corners are nice and the back is clean.

I wonder if anyone ever ordered one of those Stanley Cup replicas. What was it made of, paper-mâché?

I have been working on a new set review that isn’t quite ready to share just yet, so in the meantime here is another card in my ever-increasing 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey Set.

Red Kelly is my 26th card. This one also has a few pin holes in it, but otherwise is not a bad-looking card. No stains, no creases and no badly-rounded corners.

This is the 25th card in the 1963-64 Parkhurst set that I am slowly building.

That’s 25 out of 99 cards.

Twenty-five percent.

One-fourth of the way there.

Hoo-yah!

As you can see, this card of Carl Brewer–like the card of Robert Baun–has pinholes in it. But like I have said before, I didn’t pay a heck of a lot for it (less than $4).

Robert Baun is the 24th card in my 1963-64 Parkhurst Hockey Set.

There are a few pin holes in the card and a dent on the back at the top. One of the corners is also rounded a bit.

But at $2.50–yes, two dollars and fifty cents–I could not turn down this 47-year old “artifact.”

47 years back, someone felt strongly enough about this card to want to pin it up where it could be seen and enjoyed.

If you think about it, this card was more loved than most modern cards, which are slapped into protective plastic immediately and sequestered in cool, dark, dry places for the rest of their existence.