MARIO LEMIEUX 1987-88 O-Pee-Chee 15 Pittsburgh Penguins HHA VG LEGEND

Description: Despite slight almost imperceptible creases in the corner this is a nice collectible card of NHL super legend Mario Lemieux. Mario Lemieux, often referred to as “Super Mario,” is one of the greatest hockey players of all time, known for his extraordinary skill and resilience. He led the Pittsburgh Penguins to two Stanley Cup victories and won the Conn Smythe Trophy twice as playoff MVP. Lemieux set numerous records, including being the only player besides Wayne Gretzky to score 199 points in a single season. His career was marked by overcoming significant health challenges, including Hodgkin’s lymphoma, yet he still managed to win six Art Ross Trophies as the NHL’s top scorer. Lemieux’s combination of size, skill, and determination, along with his impact on and off the ice, makes his memorabilia highly prized by collectors. ATTENTION. IMPORTANT. Please read notes on grading below before purchasing. The Hockey History Archive (HHA) has deemed this card historically significant. Authenticated, graded, and placed in an attractive and protective acrylic display case. The HHA features many different themed historically curated collections, including the popular "Enforcers" series, all authenticated and graded by HHA experts. Browse this seller's items to see other HHA Legends of the Game collections and to purchase all or just your favorites players in the Enforcers series.Combined shipping is available if you buy more than one item, so check out my other cards, all graded cards. If you buy a second card we refund the shipping on card two. If you order more than 2 we will refund any amount over what it actually costs to mail the cards. IMPORTANT NOTES ON GRADING:The photo is a photo of the actual card so please take a good look at the card and pay attention to grading and be aware that the Hockey History Archive (HHA) is a historical/hobby grading company NOT an investor grading company. We employ professional grading practises, but our goals are quite different than the biggest trading companies today. The Hockey History Archive (HHA) is a historical org first and foremost who collect and release classic hockey game video to the public for free on the internet and recently have used our expertise to begin grading and trading cards on the side as part of our hockey history endeavors. HHA grades are NOT designed to replace the big grading companies and we have an entirely different philosophy regarding how cards should be graded. HHA grades are designed especially for cards of lower and middle values and designed to provide a general grade (what HHA calls a "hobby/historical artifact grade") and to put the card in protective cases with attractive labelling with collectors in mind who want to hold on to cards for display in their personal collections rather than as investments. This does not mean the cards cannot be investments, only that we are not thinking of that when we grade them. For very valuable cards we fully expect and even recommend trading card investors send the cards to one of the big grading companies, but be aware those companies are typically very expensive charging $35 to $40 a card in some cases and for very valuable cards they also charge/add a percentage of the assessed value of the card (which we never do). Every HHA card has a small labor and supplies fee (typically about $10 per card) which is added to the *raw* value of the card itself which is determined by the market and our own assessment of a card's value. Again, HHA is a hockey history org that does grading and card "reclamation" as just one part of our efforts to promote hockey history and make it available to the public. HHA also has disagreements on how to grade cards and especially on issues such as card cleaning, for which we align with museums and historians around the world by fully encouraging *proper* cleaning of cards in order to remove harmful dirt and bacteria, and when necessary other measures designed to protect and extend the life of the card and maximize its aesthetic appeal without altering its original aesthetics. The policy of large companies of "no card cleaning" is, in our opinion, *insane* from the perspective of displaying and preserving historical artifacts; these policies are harmful to proper card preservation, and as far as we can tell the only reason they have these policies is that they appear to be playing some silly game where luck can play a larger role in valuation than the actual condition of a card. All such cleaning/preservation measures however should be done professionally by persons skilled in such preservation/restoration methods and should never alter the dimensions or aesthetics of the card. We would actually encourage museums to begin a sideline business that could help fund museums by using long held historical artifact preservation methods to clean and prep cards for collectors. Preservation methods that alter or ruin the aesthetics should result in cards being downgraded but *not* scrapped completely (unless something truly awful has occurred), scrapping based on professional card care is just an insane anti-historical practise that will make artifacts less not more common.Please note that while grades 7.5 through 10 are easy enough to understand, we do not number cards less than 7.5, we simply grade those G/VG etc and let you decide. G/VG does not mean the cards are not collectible at all it just means it did not make the 7.5 threshold which is where we believe cards in very high collectible condition begin. We also grade differently than the big companies in terms of paying very close attention to production standards of the time and we grade cards against other cards of the period NOT against modern cards that have used careful chemistry and laser guided centering among other things to create high end cards, it is not reasonable to judge a card produced in 1974 to a card made in 2024. As an example, Pro Set cards from 1991-92 were notorious for ink flaking on the edges of the card. It was common place to open a brand new pack in 1992 and find brand new cards with ink flaking on the edges. That seldom happens today, but was a norm back then and such time specific norms must be considered in grading. A 1992 "10" is not and cannot be compared to a 2024 "10" because the originals are entirely different in a myriad of ways. Please note that while grades 7.5 through 10 are easy enough to understand, we do not number cards less than 7.5, we simply grade those G/VG etc and let you decide. G/VG does not mean the cards are not collectible at all it just means it did not make the 7.5 threshold which is where we believe cards in very high collectible condition begin.

Price: 6 CAD

Location: Summerland, British Columbia

End Time: 2024-11-27T22:16:00.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.82 CAD