The 1966-67 Topps hockey card series is the most valuable vintage hockey card set since the 1950's. The full set is valued at $4500 (all pricing provided by Beckett Hockey Monthly) and the showcase card in the set is the Bobby Orr rookie card.
The number 66 card of Bobby Orr accounts for $3000 of the $4500. Along with the 1951-52 Parkhurst rookie card of Gordie Howe and the 1958-59 Topps rookie card of Bobby Hull, the Orr card is one of three most valuable hockey cards of the post-war era.
The next two most valuable cards in the 1966-67 Topps series are the checklists! Each of the two checklists in the series are valued at $400 each. Of course, back in the days before the Wayne Gretzky rookie card of 1979-80 revolutionized the hockey card collecting world, the checklist was the first card to get clothes-pinned to the back wheel of a bicycle or simply find its immediate way to the garbage can. If it was kept, the checklist was used as a, well..., checklist. So, the checklist cards are rare because most were destroyed and if they weren't, they were marked up with a pen or marker. It is very rare to find an unmarked checklist in good condition.
The next most valuable player in the 1966-67 Topps series is Gordie Howe. The number 109 of Howe is worth $200. Followed close behind is the other member of the hockey card trifecta, Bobby Hull. Hull's card is worth $150. Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins comes in at $125.
In a severe lack of valuable players, the next two highest valued cards are again Howe and Hull at $100 and $80 for their All-Star cards. The coach card of Toe Blake is also valued at $80.
In a sad year for rookies, the only other player that has his rookie card rated above a common card in the 1966-67 series is Peter Mahovlich. Mahovlich's rookie card is valued at $30. There are two other rated rookie cards but they are both coach cards, Emile Francis and Harry Sinden.
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