What card from the 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee hockey card series is worth the most? The Ken Dryden rookie card? The Guy Lafleur rookie card? The Marcel Dionne rookie card? Despite this excellent class of rookies, neither of these three are the most valuable of the 1971-72 set.
Number 111 of the 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee series is worth $500 according to Beckett Hockey Monthly
Don’t get fooled with a 1971-72 Topps number 111 checklist, however. The Topps card is still valuable but comes in at a high of $60.
This isn’t the only checklist to be worth a ton of money. The number 55 checklist of the 1964-65 Topps Tallboys series is worth $450 and is only behind the number 89 of Gordie Howe in value. In the 1966-67 series, the Bobby Orr rookie card may be worth $3000 but next in line are both checklists at $400 each.
So, why are checklists from the 1960’s and early 1970’s so valuable? Simple – they were throw aways or they were used as, well… a checklist. To achieve the high values, the cards must be unmarked and typically, a kid would tick off each card in the series as he collected them. Quite often, when you opened a pack of cards, the checklists would go straight to the garbage.
The other issue with the ’64-65 Tall Boys Checklist #2 is that it was a short print. So on top of being marked up more often than not, there were only half as many in circulation to begin with.
At the Toronto Expo a couple years back, they had an uncut sheet of ’64-65 Series one that showed 11 short prints, just like series 2. There was a temporary spike in prices, but Beckett never got around to updating their guides and the spike petered out. The list included Bobby Hull, Beliveau, Billy Harris, Marcel Pronovost, Ed Westfall and a number of others that escape me at the moment.
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