I recently had the good fortune to happen upon a most rare find. As the title indicates, I now have in my possession a Teemu Selanne Wild Wing Authentic. Now, this is no regular authentic… This one happens to be far rarer than the game / team issued sweaters everyone else has in their collections. Based upon the research I have conducted, and through discussions with the original owner, it seems that my Wild Wing jersey was one of the original prototypes introduced for initial approval by the Ducks organization.
While all of the Ducks Wild Wing game issued sweaters have a teal, teal, teal segmented CCM logo on the hem, this one has a black, black, teal segmented CCM logo. In addition, game issued Wild Wing jerseys had a rather triangular-shaped primary logo patch stitched inside of them which said “1995-96 Secondary Jersey” on it. This prototype has the same primary logo patch inside, minus the wording. Obviously, because it had not yet been accepted as a "secondary jersey." The final difference is that my Wild Wing Selanne sweater has no size fly tag in it. However, the jersey does in fact measure to a size 56 as was claimed by the original owner.
With regard to history, per the original owner, this prototype jersey (sweater) was purchased by him “locally” (although he did not say where, or from whom). I strongly suspect the jersey was at one time in the possession of the Ducks equipment manager, or some other staff member who eventually found little use for it and subsequently sold it. I have left several e-mails with the Ducks organization in an attempt to validate my findings. However, I have yet to hear from them.
Now for the news all of you collectors reading this post wanted to hear. I will be posting this sweater for sale in my Web store within the next day or so. Please find a link to my Web store at the top of the right margin, or simply Google goon-gear. There you will find the Wild Wing Selanne listing as well as many others. I will also be posting several pictures of the sweater here in the right margin. If you have any questions, please post a question through the listing, and I will respond promptly.
