Winning bidder of classic hockey cards feeling remorse over $3.7M purchase

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The winning bidder of more than a dozen unopened boxes of classic hockey cards uncovered in a Regina home says he's feeling remorse over his $3.7-million-dollar purchase.

“When I heard the runner-up bidder was literally devastated by missing out on acquiring this, I felt real empathy for him,” Jack Arshawsky of Thornhill, Ont. said in an interview, adding he’s hoping someone famous, perhaps evenHeritage Auctions said the lot, which sold last month, contained 16 sealed boxes of O-Pee-Chee’s 1979-80 hockey card collection, amounting to more than 10,000 cards.

Arshawsky made it clear he’s got the money to cover his bid — he inherited a bundle from an uncle who’d bought farmland in the Greater Toronto Area decades ago and later sold it.Jason Simonds, the sports consignment director at Heritage Auctions, said when bidding was underway that the boxes were a “once-in-a-generation find,” adding he believed it was the first time a case had been made available since 1979.

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