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Joy of a Completed Set – 1963-64 Parkhurst Part 3

Posted on June 12, 2012 by 1967ers

These are the last 35 cards of the set, plus one dupe I’m hanging onto because it’s interesting.  The cards comprise the standup/full-body poses of Montreal and Toronto, less the first four Leafs who were in the last post.  The … Continue reading →

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Joy of a Completed Set – 1963-64 Parkhurst Part 2

Posted on June 1, 2012 by 1967ers

That Leaf post the other day generated about 20% of all the page views that I’ve ever had at this place.  It was quite the day.  I should probably write that sort of thing more often.  🙂 This post will … Continue reading →

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Joy of a Completed Set – 1963-64 Parkhurst Part 1

Posted on May 25, 2012 by 1967ers

I went to the Toronto Spring Expo with a very short list and one particular goal in mind – to finally put the 1963-64 Parkhurst set to bed.  This was the second of the two sets I thought I would … Continue reading →

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1963-64 Parkhurst – and then there were two

Posted on April 9, 2012 by 1967ers

When I last looked at it, the 1963-64 Parkhurst set was down to five cards that were missing (and a pair that needed upgrading).  An opportune pickup has dropped the number of missing cards down to two.  It could have … Continue reading →

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Boom Boom and Crash – nobody has nicknames like this anymore

Posted on March 19, 2012 by 1967ers

I don’t know if it’s fair to say that great sports nicknames are completely a thing of the past, but they’re certainly nowhere near as plentiful as they once were.   Far too many (particularly in hockey) take the format of … Continue reading →

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Buying Count Floyd’s RC (1963-64 Parkhurst)

Posted on February 3, 2012 by 1967ers

Part of being a set builder is that there are certain cards you basically have to buy irrespective of whether you really want them.  Twenty-two years after he traded the Leafs’s 1991 first-rounder for Tom Kurvers, and twenty-one years after … Continue reading →

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 2: Hank Ciesla edition (1963-64 Parkhurst)

Posted on September 22, 2011 by 1967ers

Hank Ciesla is a name that was always kind of familiar to me.  It was a picture of Hank’s rookie card that was used to illustrate the 1958-59 Topps set in the first hockey price guides put out by Cartophilium … Continue reading →

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