Trash to Treasure - 100 Year Old Hockey Puck!!

[romeo-1]

Picked up a box that was being thrown out from an old house and scored a ton of antiques including these...

The razor blades are cool but for me the hockey puck is the find of the day! It was made by the Canadian Rubber Company Of Montreal Limited which became the Dominion Rubber Company Limited in 1926. The previous owner even carved his initials in the side of the puck. Probably something that belongs in a museum!

 

[CRUSADER]

I image the 'NR' would affect the spin/flight of the puck!

 

[Ahab8]

Very cool finds man. Love the puck. I lived right next door to Paul Kariya in college. Then was buddy's with his little bro Stevie. Great guys and good Canadian boys. Love me some college hockey

 

[Iron Patch]

Very cool finds man. Love the puck. I lived right next door to Paul Kariya in college. Then was buddy's with his little bro Stevie. Great guys and good Canadian boys. Love me some college hockey

I'd say digging buckles in detecting is like assists in hockey.... so I guess you never would have been much of a player.

 

[coinman123]

Man! Something like that should be worth some cash! Congrats!

 

[RelicMedic]

That is a sweet save buddy! Hard to wrap your head around the significance of that puck. I wonder if it was used in an important game back in the day...we will never know, but can dream!

 

[Ahab8]

I'd say digging buckles in detecting is like assists in hockey.... so I guess you never would have been much of a player.

Ya know I called you a friend in my article and gave you props for cleaning advice and for nailing the variety. And the fact that you and I can give eachother so much crap confirms those statements lol. The people that get defensive and can't joke around or take a lil ribbing I just can't roll with bro. I'm glad you're such a good sport and take it as well as you deal it. You get lots of free passes since you helped me out with the tree coin bro. I owe you big and haven't forgotten man. And I WILL find a good 17th century coin sometime soon....maybe....I hope....possibly?

 

[Iron Patch]

Ya know I called you a friend in my article and gave you props for cleaning advice and for nailing the variety.

I didn't know that.... guess I'm famous now! Did you say I first called it fake? BTW... that got cleared up for me well after the fact when you corrected me that it was not a hammered coin... which is why they look more round than I had expected.


The puck is off the boards, Abe picks it up at center ice and makes a quick pass to Vino.... Vino shoots, he scores!!!! ....And Abe just digs another old crusty part broken buckle.

 

[Ahab8]

I didn't know that.... guess I'm famous now! Did you say I first called it fake? BTW... that got cleared up for me well after the fact when you corrected me that it was not a hammered coin... which is why they look more round than I had expected.


The puck is off the boards, Abe picks it up at center ice and makes a quick pass to Vino.... Vino shoots, he scores!!!! ....And Abe just digs another old crusty part broken buckle.

Lol the funniest part of the article is what Geirge told me before I went to that site. He told me that I might find some great old relics but I would never find any coins there cause they didn't use them. They only bartered lol. Next day tree coin and cob. I still laugh about that conversation

 

[Ahab8]

And I left the fake part out bro. I only put in the stuff that made you live up to the superhero image

 

[romeo-1]

Alright you two...take it outside...

 

[Ahab8]

Alright you two...take it outside...

He'd freeze outside in that unitard. I don't believe it's insulated lol

 

[romeo-1]

Sent a message off to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto looking for more information on the puck. I'll report back if/when I hear back.

 

[19cbb]

For what it's worth, I sent an image of the puck to the twitter account of Welcome to Classic Auctions Inc. to see if they had information on the item and received the following:

Hi Jimmy,
From our Auction Manager: "Vintage c.1920s puck which was store sold, not used in pro leagues, value in this condition roughly about $50, we have handled quite a few and not very rare". Hope this helps. Cheers, Greg

 

[UnderMiner]

"From our Auction Manager: "Vintage c.1920s puck which was store sold, not used in pro leagues, value in this condition roughly about $50, we have handled quite a few and not very rare". Hope this helps."

$50 for is pretty good for a puck. Shame it's not worth thousands.

 

[cw0909]

maybe yours is worth a little more historically because it says juvenile
maybe it was a youth league puck,here is one from same co. it says Regulation
Antique Puck - The Canadian Rubber of Montreal Limited | HockeyGods

 

[romeo-1]

I'm still waiting to hear from some other knowledgeable sources. I've Googled 1920s hockey puck and nothing I've found looks like this one...it appears to be older. Also, I've only found one other example, the one posted by cw0909, that is even close to it's appearance. Finally, there's the matter that the Canadian Rubber Company of Montreal Limited changed it's name to The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company Ltd In 1906. Would they have continued to make pucks almost 15 years later under the old name?

 

[cw0909]

i dont have a date for your puck, but it would have to be after 1912
through litigation on a trademark infringement the word THE was added
to Canadian Rubber Company of Montreal Limited
https://books.google.com/books?id=s...ian Rubber Company of Montreal Limited&f=true

 

[cw0909]

i think i read that wrong, the word THE was just officially added in the
trademark reg., in 1912
may need a more legal lingo person to read LOL

 

[romeo-1]

i think i read that wrong, the word THE was just officially added in the
trademark reg., in 1912
may need a more legal lingo person to read LOL

Yeah, the word "The" had been used well before 1912... This is a pic of an advert from 1866...

I think the research and investigation is the best part of this hobby!

 

[PeteWmass]

Id be watching that place like a hawk....