December Card & Memorabilia Auction Dec 9 - 18/19
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/18/2022
Presented is a 1988 National Champion Notre Dame team-signed Knute Rockne history and quotes, as well as US Postal Service Rockne stamp, framed to 11 1/4 x 17 1/4-inches with multiple signatures of Fighting Irish players and staff. The framed and mounted display features a 11 x 17-inch white parchment sheet with the signatures of over 40 Notre Dame football players from the 1988 squad in black and blue pen and marker, including Chris Zorich, Todd Lyght, Anthony Johnson and Kent Graham, among others. The players signed a document which includes a brief historical note about the late Notre Dame coaching legend Rockne, as well as a number of his most famous quotes, printed in black. Also on the document are illustrations of the "Golden Dome", Rockne and a football player in action. At the bottom of the document is the 1988 United States Postal Service Knute Rockne commemorative stamp at the lower left, postmarked March 8, 1988 Notre Dame, IN, First Day of Issue. Mounted in the bottom center below the document, set into the mat, is a white paper legend printed in black "Presented to Coach Lou Holtz who, in the tradition of Rockne and Notre Dame, led us to an Undefeated Season 1988". On the back of the framed display is a white paper document with the legend, in black, "This poetic tribute to Rockne presented to Coach Lou Holtz in recognition of his leading the 1988 "Fighting Irish" to an undefeated season. "Thanks Coach" 1988 Team". Below that legend is the caption, also in black type, "Stamp and Postmark are First Day of Issue Illustration of Dome contains authentic piece of the famous Notre Dame Dome - circa 1880." This item comes with a LOA from JSA (XX19488) for the signatures and this item also comes with a LOA from Lou Holtz, with 100% of the net proceeds from the sale of this item that will benefit the Holtz Charitable Foundation, Inc.