Henderson jersey fetches over $1 million
Posted Jun 23, 2010 04:33:47 AM.
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Paul Henderson’s legendary hockey jersey fetched well over US$1 million at auction early Wednesday following a late surge of interest in the historic cloth.
The winner bid of US$1,067,538 was submitted by Mitchell Goldhar, the owner of SmartCentres, a private real estate development company based in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto
Marc Juteau, president of Montreal area-based Classic Auctions, says Goldhar’s bid was the 42nd entered for the 38-year-old red and white jersey.
Juteau also said once the auction fees were factored in, the final price to be paid by Goldhar is actually $1.275 million.
The final price makes the jersey Henderson wore when he scored Team Canada’s winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviets the highest price ever paid at auction for a piece of hockey memorabilia.
The winning bid for the jersey smashes the previous auction record for a hockey item, $191,200 paid for a Bobby Orr rookie jersey. It is also more than four times the $250,000 that a few of Wayne Gretzky’s jerseys had fetched in a private sale.
