The Five most iconic Hockey Cards thread

[joestevens29]

I'm not going to lie I've never seen a Howe rookie card in person and never really hear it ever talked about.

 

[joestevens29]

Not a very expensive card by any means, but this was one of my favourite cards for the longest time

 

[blankall]

I'm not going to lie I've never seen a Howe rookie card in person and never really hear it ever talked about.

It's pretty iconic. It was one of the last really old school looking cards, that was the small format with a blank back and no fancy design. It was also the first set of cards since 1940/41 (due to WWII rations on gum). Howe's actual rookie season was 46/47, but this is his "rookie" card.

The Howe rookie is probably the hockey equivalent to the baseball Honus Wagner card.

 

[dr robbie]

I'd definitely put in Lemieux's RC over a random limited # Crosby card. His dead stare just seals the deal. I'd even put the YG Crosby rookie ahead the Cup one - much more iconic.

 

[ted2019]

I guess the maurice richard RC is missing big time here!

I had a PSA 7 at one time. Wish I kept it.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

Cool I'll check that out. So when I mail my card and it gets damaged do I still get my $5?

Depends. You can purchase insurance. Otherwise I would recommend either a garage sale or renting a table at a flea market I suppose if your concerned about shipping them.

 

[tsujimoto74]

I always liked this card with baby Patrick Kane in the stands:

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I did a similar countdown once but it was the most iconic/influential cards between the wax era to the modern era and it was a top 50 and it was organized chronologically. Then, for the cards I identified and didn’t own, I went out and acquired them. So it’s not only a list but an actual collection.

The point was to show how we came from wax packs with gum and one-sided cards made of pulp, with cards and packs costing a buck, to the cards of today where you can open cards in new packs worth hundreds and thousands. And which companies were responsible for the best and the very worst innovations in the hobby.

Pacific never got the credit they deserved when it came to innovation. They were the first company to produce net cards and actually pin pointed the date and game of their game used cards.

Link your thread, I wants to read

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Lafrenieres are going for 100K and he hasn’t played a game yet. You don’t think Crosby could go for 10X that to someone with I don’t give a f*** money ?

Lol wat?

Where is a Laff high gloss selling at 100k?

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I'd definitely put in Lemieux's RC over a random limited # Crosby card. His dead stare just seals the deal. I'd even put the YG Crosby rookie ahead the Cup one - much more iconic.

The Cup is an iconic set in hockey cards.

The fact there's only 99 of them, along with a patch and auto makes it THE Crosby rookie to own.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I'm not going to lie I've never seen a Howe rookie card in person and never really hear it ever talked about.

They're extremely tough to come by, which is why the ones listed on eBay are out there in the wild just waiting to be purchased.

Howes rookie benefits more then any other card with the Gretzky sale.

 

[Dicky113]

Lol wat?

Where is a Laff high gloss selling at 100k?

I’m an idiot, I could have sworn it was 100K but must have been 10K! I got confused by the Gretzky for a million news. Ignore my comment...

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

I sold my Jagr collection and the only card i kept was the 96-97 Upper Deck Game jersey card. Not Jagr specifically, but I feel like this jersey card across all sports changed the game.

 

[blankall]

I’m an idiot, I could have sworn it was 100K but must have been 10K! I got confused by the Gretzky for a million news. Ignore my comment...

There was a bounty on them for $16k before they got released. Someone is trying to hoard them to increase price at a later date.

Honestly, I see Laf being below Eichel. A potential top 10 players, but never a #1 star in the league. I'd be shocked if his High Gloss ever got above $25k.

 

[ted2019]

I'm not going to lie I've never seen a Howe rookie card in person and never really hear it ever talked about.

It's a simple, but gorgeous card. I had a friend of mine who was a collector and did shows in the 80's & 90's who was a school teacher and he would travel to the East Coast National, Chicago Sun Times show just to buy and trade for cards that his customers ( and himself) wanted. He would go through Colorado and head North in the Summer to buy cards. He put together the 51-52 Parkhurst set and it took him over 4 years to complete as he was extremely picky. After he put it together, he displayed for a few months at shows and then let his best customers know that he would break up the set if one of us wanted some for our collections. I grabbed the Richard, Geoffrion, Kelly rookies and several other cards.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I think the highest graded Howe is a PSA 9, and whomever owns that could probably come close to the sell price of the Gretzky 10.

I have a PSA 7 and 3. The three I purchased for nothing. I would buy any low grade Howe at a decent price right now.

 

[Imnotagoodposter]

I have the card with Keith tkachuck in a blues jersey that makes him look obese but I’m too lazy to google it. You all know what card I’m talking about, though

 

[JianYang]

Not a very expensive card by any means, but this was one of my favourite cards for the longest time

Upper deck cards used to hit differently back then.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Upper deck cards used to hit differently back then.

I loved UD up until the Pronger draft year, then dropped them until 2005 when the YG's took center stage.

Hated the collation tho. Upper right on the box had all the young guns in the early years, just buy the entire stack.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I’m an idiot, I could have sworn it was 100K but must have been 10K! I got confused by the Gretzky for a million news. Ignore my comment...

Nah your good. The way the card community is right now it wouldn't shock me.

I just sold a Ja Morant auto for a ridiculous amount of money. I had a low numbered auto, threw out a crazy price, and two minutes later the amount was in my PayPal. I wouldn't be surprised one bit right now.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i collected cards for maybe five years, 1989 to... 93 or 94ish.

at that time, the most legendary cards were, in chronological order, some really rare old sprague cleghorn card, gordie howe and rocket richard's cards from the first parkhurst set, orr's rookie card, and gretzky's rookie card.

but to me the most iconic ones were:

the one after bure's dad slapped him

the one where pouting lindros sat in front of all the jerseys except quebec

sergei fedorov in french

fat brett hull in cooperalls

and terrible drawn-on randy cunneyworth

 

[Green]

this Eric Lindros was an iconic card, basically his first real card from a major set (there were some cards from his Junior days that were only distributed locally so they were very hard to get) Score bought the rights from Lindros to be the first one to have it before he was drafted, Eric Lindros was going to be the next big thing, and he was the next big thing at a time when the card industry was booming, so people bought this card or spent hundreds of dollars going through packs assuming it would be worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars several decades into the future as that is the trend the card industry was going, now you go on Ebay and this card can be had for $1

also Upper Deck wanted to be the first card set to have Lindros in his Flyer uniform playing a game, so they took a head shot of him and put it on Rod Brind'Amour's body and added 88 to the sleeves (something the NHLPA soon banned the card companies from doing)

 

[Dicky113]

this Eric Lindros was an iconic card, basically his first real card from a major set (there were some cards from his Junior days that were only distributed locally so they were very hard to get) Score bought the rights from Lindros to be the first one to have it before he was drafted, Eric Lindros was going to be the next big thing, and he was the next big thing at a time when the card industry was booming, so people bought this card or spent hundreds of dollars going through packs assuming it would be worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars several decades into the future as that is the trend the card industry was going, now you go on Ebay and this card can be had for $1

also Upper Deck wanted to be the first card set to have Lindros in his Flyer uniform playing a game, so they took a head shot of him and put it on Rod Brind'Amour's body and added 88 to the sleeves (something the NHLPA soon banned the card companies from doing)

That Lindros card got me into collecting in grade 7. I think it was worth 20 bucks at the time which was a big deal for a new card. I pulled two of them and was the shit.

 

[alko]

Saw this on reddit. Is it really the only 'official' autographed Patrick Roy Young Guns card in existence, as someone wrote there?

 

[PavelBure10]

I also think the 85 OPC Mario Lemieux rookie should be in the top 5.