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1996 NBA's 50 Greatest Players Signed Lithograph--Bill Sharman's Personal Example! ...
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Numbered "Sharman 1/1"
1996 NBA's 50 Greatest Players Signed Lithograph--Bill Sharman's
Personal Example! The NBA took the occasion of its 50th
anniversary in 1996 to honor fifty of the game's greatest players
with a single lithograph that has forever after been considered the
Holy Grail of basketball autograph collecting. Over a period of
five days, forty-nine legends of the hardcourt were brought
together for the autograph sessions, the sport's most exclusive
brotherhood creating the hobby's most exclusive collectible. Thus
was this remarkable piece of memorabilia born, linking several
generations of NBA legends starting with the earliest days of the
fledgling league when it was cobbled together at the end of World
War II.And so you have striking pencil signatures from the likes of George Mikan, Bob Cousy, Paul Arizin and Bob Pettit, golden era names Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, John Havlicek, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Julius Erving, and more modern era luminaries Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Shaq. It's hard to imagine such a unique and all-encompassing sports art print ever being even fantasized, much less actually delivered.
The once-in-a-lifetime parameters simply cannot be duplicated, with several of the elder statesmen having passed away in the nearly two decades since this artifact's creation. The 25x39"print features color head portraits of the NBA's selection of its Top 50 players, with 9/10 or 10/10 pencil signatures below each, with only Pistol Pete Maravich, who died in 1988, not included among the autographs. Executed on an elegant cream acid-free heavy stock, this print is matted and framed under heavy glass, with a museum-quality frame bringing the overall dimensions to 30x44".
The NBA 50 Greatest Players Lithograph was limited to 250 individually numbered pieces - the first 50 going directly to the players, 100 "NBA Edition," 50 "Legends Edition," and 50 Field of Dreams Edition.
This example carries special collector appeal as one of the highly-coveted player models, issued to legendary Celtics guard Bill Sharman and bearing a "Sharman 1/1" pencil notation to identify it as such. Fine condition. Framed dimensions are 36x50". Full LOA from PSA/DNA.
Auction Info
2020 August 29 - 30 Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction - Dallas #50029 (go to Auction Home page)
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August, 2020
29th-30th
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