1973-74 O-Pee-Chee NHL Logo #NNO Team Logo Pushout Insert 1st Series

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1973-74 O-Pee-Chee NHL Logo #NNO Team Logo Pushout Insert 1st Series Every league needs a seal, and in the 1973-74 season the shield of the National Hockey League stood over a sixteen-team empire fighting a rival war with the World Hockey Association, a moment when the orange and black palette of this era's shield matched the bold graphics of O-Pee-Chee's own design shop. This 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee NHL Logo #NNO Team Logo Pushout Insert 1st Series decal presents the league crest in black with orange outlining and the diagonal NHL lettering, the same shield that opened every broadcast and crowned every Stanley Cup presentation in a season that ended with the Broad Street Bullies lifting the first of their two trophies. As the anchor piece of the seventeen-card Team Logos insert set placed one per pack in first series wax, the league logo decal is the card that set builders need first and find least often in untouched form, and the Canadian printing is confirmed by the bilingual front instructions, PUNCH OUT, WET BACK AND PRESS ONTO ANY SURFACE FOR TEN SECONDS with ENLEVEZ EN POUSSANT, HUMECTEZ LE DOS ET COLLEZ SUR N'IMPORTE QUELLE SURFACE EN PRESSANT PENDANT DIX SECONDS beneath. Collectors building the full insert run treat this shield as the cornerstone, and its period colour scheme makes it one of the most graphic pieces of 1970s hockey paper on the market. The shield also anchors any display of the set, and because league-logo inserts are bought by collectors of every single franchise, demand for it never softens regardless of which team a buyer follows, keeping values firm even at raw grades. the front shield remains bold and centred with strong black coverage, the corners of the carrier are acceptable with light softness, but the top of the shield shows a short horizontal scuff and faint crease line visible in the scans, and the edges show minor whitening consistent with a pushout that was handled before it was saved. The reverse is the blank adhesive-backed cardboard with the shield die-cut outline, showing a small dark abrasion at the top of the cut and light overall toning, and we state explicitly that this is the Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual front instruction variant with a plain gum back, not a puzzle back and not a printed bilingual back. Because the surface scuff and crease line at the top move it clearly below the excellent-plus tier, the conservative estimate is VG-EX 4, a grade that still represents a perfectly presentable example of a key insert. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 4