1970 O-Pee-Chee Chuck Harrison #65 Winnipeg Blue Bombers CFL Card POOR 1

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Chuck Harrison #65 Winnipeg Blue Bombers CFL Card POOR 1 Every vintage card deserves a home, even the battle scarred ones, and this heavily damaged second example of the 1970 O-Pee-Chee Chuck Harrison #65 is priced and presented honestly as a genuine Poor grade survivor for collectors who value completeness over cosmetics. The card belongs to the 115 card 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL set, printed in Canada with a design borrowed from the 1969 Topps NFL series, and the reverse, though badly wrinkled, is still identifiable as the classic Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, printed in English and French on black stock with the green cartoon panel, and it is not a puzzle back. The biography it carries, legible in its better areas, identifies the NON-IMPORT tackle at 6 feet 3 inches and 245 pounds from Western Michigan University, describes him as a product of the Ottawa program who played two years with the Riders before being traded to the Pegs, and pairs the text with the green bilingual cartoon that recounts his junior drafting, the same charming two language storytelling found across this issue. Harrison first reached collectors in the scarce 1968 O-Pee-Chee CFL test set, and this 1970 follow up captured him as part of the young Canadian nucleus, with Peter Francis and Doug Strong, that carried the Bombers through the post dynasty rebuild after the Grey Cup triumphs of 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962. Poor grade cards like this one fill gaps in team sets, serve as affordable place holders until an upgrade appears, work perfectly in binders where only the front face shows, and support restoration, rebacking and display projects, all roles where a creased but complete card is the smart buy. this example shows severe wrinkling and multiple heavy creases running across the entire front face, dulled and scuffed gloss with visible surface abrasion, rounded and worn corner tips, chipped and frayed edges, and centering that cannot fairly be judged through the distortion, while the bilingual reverse survives with its print legible but shows heavy wrinkling, abrasion streaks and surface wear of matching severity, though the card remains whole with no paper loss and no tears through the stock. Cards in this state are typically deemed authentic rather than aesthetically gradable, and the estimate here reflects a deliberately conservative reading of the photos rather than optimism. For a shopper who needs a 1970 O-Pee-Chee Chuck Harrison card to complete a Winnipeg Blue Bombers page at the lowest possible cost, this Poor grade filler is exactly the right tool for the job. Grade Estimate: POOR 1