A treasure of unopened 1979-80 hockey cards shocked collectors last weekend when it sold for $3.72 million at auction.
Roughly 16 boxes, each containing 48 packs of O-Pee-Chee cards, were discovered when at least one person stumbled upon an unopened cardboard box, according to a report citing Heritage Auctions.
Wayne Gretzky is widely considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time, and the trove could contain upward of two dozen rookie cards of “The Great One,” the report noted.
In this undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions, a case of old hockey cards, uncovered in a Canadian home, has fetched more than $3.7 million. Heritage Auctions says a winning bidder bought the case of 16 sealed boxes of O-Pee-Chee’s 1979 hockey card collection, amounting to more than 10,000 cards.
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