Auction Details
Vintage Hockey Cards • O-Pee-Chee & Topps • Rookie Cards • Canadian Stamps • Knives & Outdoor Gear • Masonic & Shriners Collectibles • Vintage Cameras & Technology • African Art • Porcelain • Coca-Cola • Antiques & Curiosities
A collector’s auction with more hiding inside than the title lets on.
Beck Auctions presents Hunt, Hockey & Hearth – In House, a wonderfully diverse collection spanning decades of Canadian hockey history, outdoors and sporting gear, philately, fraternal memorabilia, vintage technology, decorative arts and nostalgic collectibles.
For the serious collector, there are several areas of this catalogue worth exploring from beginning to end.
A Remarkable Run of Vintage Hockey Cards
One of the major attractions is an extensive collection of Topps and O-Pee-Chee hockey cards, organized across numerous large binders and covering season after season of NHL history.
Among the highlights are cards featuring some of hockey's most recognizable names and important rookies, including Mike Bossy, Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, Dale Hawerchuk, Steve Yzerman, Pat LaFontaine, Chris Chelios, Cam Neely, Doug Gilmour, Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Wendel Clark, Luc Robitaille, Adam Oates, Brendan Shanahan, Joe Sakic and Theoren Fleury.
Look for a 1978-79 Topps collection with a Mike Bossy rookie, 1980 O-Pee-Chee material featuring Wayne Gretzky, a group of 1982 O-Pee-Chee rookie cards including Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr and Dale Hawerchuk rookies, and an especially appealing 1984-85 O-Pee-Chee group featuring rookie cards of Yzerman, LaFontaine, Chelios, Neely and Gilmour.
The collection continues through the mid and late 1980s with Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Luc Robitaille, Adam Oates and Brendan Shanahan, followed by Joe Sakic, Theoren Fleury and additional NHL material into the early 1990s.
Whether you're chasing Hall of Famers, building sets or searching for cards from one of hockey's great eras, this is a section collectors should not overlook.
Canadian Stamp Collections — Binders, Albums & Hundreds of Stamps
Philatelists will also find a substantial selection of Canadian postage stamps and collecting material.
Highlights include five large Unity Canada stamp albums covering Canadian postal history into approximately 1998, additional binders containing hundreds of Canadian stamps, collector albums, reference material, new albums still in boxes and a mystery assortment of unplaced stamps.
There is also a four-volume The Story of Canada boxed collection from the Excelsior Collectors Guild — making this auction worth exploring for both established collectors and anyone looking to begin a Canadian collection.
Knives, Scopes & The Great Outdoors
The “Hunt” side of the auction brings together practical and collectible outdoor pieces, including a Buck 500 folding knife with wood inlay and Buck leather sheath, fixed and folding knives, an axe and knife set with matching leather sheaths, a Pioneer Co. double-bladed saw, fishing equipment and an EZE-LAP diamond sharpener.
Optics include multiple vintage Bushnell, Redfield, Tasco and Kassnar spotting scopes, including a Bushnell Scopechief with car-window mount and a Redfield 25x60mm scope.
It's an appealing mix for hunters, campers, outdoorsmen, knife collectors and vintage sporting-equipment enthusiasts.
Masonic, Shriners & Fraternal History
A distinctive portion of the catalogue is devoted to Masonic, Shriners and fraternal memorabilia, much of it with Canadian and Alberta connections.
Discover an Al Shamal Greeters jeweled fez, a Gizeh Temple Vancouver ceremonial staff, a Scottish Rite 32nd Degree Masonic jewel, Canadian/Emulation Master Mason aprons, a framed Grand Lodge of Alberta certificate, Shriners and Daughters of the Nile pins and memorabilia, Order of the Eastern Star pieces and additional Masonic collectibles.
For collectors of fraternal history, this is one section that deserves a closer look.
Vintage Cameras, Computers & Retro Technology
Technology collectors aren't forgotten.
The catalogue includes a Compaq LTE Elite 4/40C portable computer, numerous vintage HP and Texas Instruments calculators, floppy disks, manuals, accessories and other early computing material.
Photography enthusiasts can explore vintage cameras and equipment including a Kodak Six-16 Brownie Junior, a Soligor 135mm f/2.8 telephoto lens, Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 lens, flashes, filters, cases and related camera accessories.
Art, Porcelain & Decorative Collectibles
For the home and display cabinet, discover mid-century West African Baule-style carved wood masks, an Audubon folio containing 29 bird prints, original paintings, Japanese porcelain, hand-painted Italian porcelain, Irish porcelain figures and Limoges France porcelain with elegant cobalt and gold decoration.
Also appearing are Swarovski animals, crystal and porcelain bells, pewter tableware, vintage chocolate moulds, etched glass, collector plates, decorative glass and dozens of porcelain and metal thimbles.
Nostalgia Around Every Corner
And then there are the pieces that make an eclectic auction particularly fun.
Look for a large Coca-Cola collection with Santas, bears and advertising pieces, a boxed Mattel Hermione Granger Harry Potter doll, vintage Rollerblade AeroBlade skates, an unusual vintage Ukeline combination string instrument, old records, tobacco collectibles, advertising pieces, handmade beaded moccasins, Christmas collectibles and plenty of unusual estate finds.
Hockey history. Canadian stamps. Vintage knives. Masonic memorabilia. Retro technology. Art, antiques and nostalgia.
This isn't an auction built around just one type of collector — it's the kind of catalogue where you come for one thing and end up bookmarking ten more.
Take your time, explore every lot and don't assume you've seen the best of it until you've reached the very end.
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