Case of unopened hockey cards that may include Wayne Gretzky's first goes for $3.7M

A sealed carton of hockey player cards that may contain Wayne Gretzky's rookie card fetched $3.7 million at auction, Heritage Auctions said Monday.

A sealed carton of hockey player cards that may contain Wayne Gretzky's rookie card fetched $3.7 million at auction, Heritage Auctions said Monday.

The bidder, whose name was not given, will get an unopened cardboard box filled with 48 packs of O-Pee-Chee hockey cards from the 1979-80 season, it said. Among its 10,752 cards — "made in and stayed in Canada" — could be those coveted Gretzky rookie cards.

"An unknown number ... maybe two dozen, give or take — feature the Great One’s first skate as an Edmonton Oiler," Heritage Auctions said in a statement.

The box, which had been stashed away in a Saskatchewan basement for several years, inspired global headlines last month when its existence was revealed, the Dallas-based auction house said.

"Our consignor wasn't aware he owned this outrageous Holy Grail case until very recent accounting of a long-forgotten pile of boxes in his home in Saskatchewan, where deadstock cards from the late 1970s and early 1980s had been gathering dust since he had bought them directly from a wholesaler," Heritage said in a previous statement.

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