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The High Price of a Complete Gordie Howe Collection

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1951-52 Parkhurst #66 – Gordie Howe rookie card.

Gordie Howe played in the NHL from 1946-47 to 1970-71 with the Detroit Red Wings. He then returned to the NHL for one season, 1979-80, with the Hartford Whalers. From 1973-74 to 1978-79, Howe played in the World Hockey Association with the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers. Between the two major leagues, Gordie played a total of 2,421 games (regular season and playoffs combined). He put an astounding 1,071 pucks in the net throughout those games.

The Gordie Howe rookie card appeared in the 1951-52 Parkhurst series as number 66. Howe’s final card came in the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee series as number 175. There are 41 mainstream hockey cards featuring Gordie Howe during his playing days. The mainstream manufacturers, of course, include Parkhurst, Topps and O-Pee-Chee. The number does not include subsets or non-mainstream cards like team sets or food brands (Coca-Cola, Dad’s cookies, etc.).

If one was to try and collect each of these 41 cards from scratch today, according to Beckett Hockey Monthly, one would pay $13,120. If you wanted these cards in pristine condition, the collection would cost a lot (probably extremely more) more than the $13,000. If quality isn’t that important, the price could be much lower.

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Here’s the Gordie Howe checklist:

Year
Number Manufacturer Value
1951-52 66 Parkhurst RC $3,000.00
1952-53 88 Parkhurst $1,000.00
1953-54 50 Parkhurst $800.00
1954-55 41 Parkhurst $600.00
1954-55 8 Topps $1,800.00
1957-58 42 Topps $500.00
1958-59 8 Topps $500.00
1959-60 63 Topps $400.00
1960-61 20 Parkhurst $350.00
1961-62 20 Parkhurst $250.00
1962-63 31 Parkhurst $250.00
1962-63 30 Parkhurst $250.00
1963-64 55 Parkhurst $450.00
1964-65 89 Topps $500.00
1965-66 122 Topps (Highlight (600 Goals)) $400.00
1965-66 108 Topps $150.00
1966-67 121 Topps (All-Star) $100.00
1966-67 109 Topps $200.00
1967-68 131 Topps (All-Star) $100.00
1967-68 43 Topps $150.00
1968-69 29 O-Pee-Chee $100.00
1968-69 203 O-Pee-Chee (First Team All-Star) $60.00
1968-69 29 Topps $70.00
1969-70 193 O-Pee-Chee (“Mr. Hockey”) $150.00
1969-70 61 O-Pee-Chee $80.00
1969-70 193B O-Pee-Chee (“Mr. Hockey”) $175.00
1969-70 215 O-Pee-Chee (All-Star) $50.00
1969-70 61 Topps $50.00
1970-71 238 O-Pee-Chee (First Team All-Star) $40.00
1970-71 29 O-Pee-Chee $80.00
1970-71 29 Topps $50.00
1971-72 262 O-Pee-Chee (Special Retirement Card) $100.00
1971-72 70 Topps $60.00
1974-75 1 O-Pee-Chee – WHA (The Howes) $80.00
1975-76 100 O-Pee-Chee – WHA $50.00
1975-76 66 O-Pee-Chee – WHA (All-Star) $30.00
1976-77 72 O-Pee-Chee – WHA (All-Star) $25.00
1976-77 50 O-Pee-Chee – WHA $40.00
1977-78 1 O-Pee-Chee – WHA $30.00
1979-80 175 O-Pee-Chee $30.00
1979-80 175 Topps $20.00

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