The National Basketball Association edition of the 50 Greatest Players Signed Lithograph 1946-1996, a 25 by 39in. fine art lithograph created by Dream
£20,000 - £30,000
The National Basketball Association edition of the 50 Greatest Players Signed Lithograph 1946-1996, a 25 by 39in. fine art lithograph created by Dreams Inc. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the NBA in 1996 and issued the following year, on cream coloured heavy stock paper, featuring colour portraits of the NBA's selection of its top 50 players in history, this example being No.56 from the NBA edition of 100 (there were also 150 further signings for the Players, Legends and Field of Dreams editions, signed in pencil by the subjects with the sole exception of ''Pistol Pete'' Maravich who passed away tragically and suddenly in 1988, the COA stating that all the players' signings were witnessed by Field of Dreams representatives and the NBA over a period of five days, Commissioner David Stern also signed each lithograph, the 50 Greatest Players who signed the lithograph comprise: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, NATE ARCHIBALD, PAUL ARIZIN, CHARLES BARKLEY, RICK BARRY, ELGIN BAYLOR, DAVE BING, LARRY BIRD, WILT CHAMBERLAIN, BOB COUSY, DAVE COWENS, BILLY CUNNINGHAM, DAVE DeBUSSCHERE, CLYDE DREXLER, JULIUS ERVING, PATRICK EWING, WALT FRAZIER, GEORGE GARVIN, HAL GREER, JOHN HAVLICEK, ELVIN HAYES, MAGIC JOHNSON, SAM JONES, MICHAEL JORDAN, JERRY LUCAS, KARL MALONE, MOSES MALONE. KEVIN McHALE, GEORGE MIKAN, EARL MONROE, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, HAKEEM OLAJUWON, ROBERT PARISH, BOB PETTIT, SCOTTIE PIPPEN, WILLIS REED, OSCAR ROBERTSON, DAVID ROBINSON, BILL RUSSELL, DOLPH SCHAYES, BILL SHARMAN, JOHN STOCKTON, ISIAH THOMAS, NATE THURMOND, WES UNSELD, BILL WALTON, JERRY WEST, LENNY WILKENS & JAMES WORTHY; with COA folder signed by Sam D. Battistone and Joie Casey Chairman and President of Field of Dreams and by Commissioner Stern, mounted, framed & glazed to a high quality, overall measurements 95.5 by 132 by 7.5cm., 37 1/2 by 52 by 3in. (2)