Canadian man has $100K Wayne Gretzky collection stolen

Aron Gratias, a Saskatchewan man who has been constructing an intensive Wayne Gretzky memorabilia assortment for over 40 years, says all of his valued objects had been stolen from a storage facility. Gratias reported the objects stolen in April, after claiming that the locks to one in every of his two storage containers had been selectively lower off, and all his Gretzky merchandise was lacking.
Gratias’s assortment included 19 signed Gretzky jerseys, a number of autographed photographs and over 2,000 Gretzky buying and selling playing cards, together with a particularly uncommon rookie card which is valued at $20,000 USD by one card authentication vendor. All the assortment is valued at practically $100,000 CAD.
“A number of individuals have requested me what I assumed my assortment was price. To me, it was priceless,” Gratias mentioned to CBC News. “A number of this stuff will not ever be capable of get replaced.”
Gratias wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that after lately transferring between cities, he found that one in every of his two storage containers had the locks lower off and the objects had been selectively taken. He says the thief did not trouble taking “some costly family and storage objects.”
He grew to become an avid fan of Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers through the crew’s dynastic run within the Nineteen Eighties, when he was rising up in Saskatoon.
“The gathering was a life historical past of ardour,” Gratias mentioned. “That was one thing I loved doing in my day off. I cherished exhibiting it off as nicely. I cherished bragging about it.”
Gratias additionally collected hockey memorabilia from a number of different gamers, however the overwhelming majority of his assortment was devoted to Gretzky.
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