These days, one can spot the Blues’ logo just about anywhere around town — on hats, jackets, bumper stickers, backpacks and baby onesies. But in its infant stage, it was limited to a couple of prototype jerseys. In fact, the club altered the original design before its first season of play, putting these relics into more rarefied air.

So where are they?

Somehow, Salomon and Patrick swapped the jerseys. The whereabouts of the blue one worn by Patrick that day in 1966 are unknown. The white one worn by Salomon went home with Patrick, who as the original coach of the Blues wore it during practices. It hung in his office until his death in 1980, then spent more than a decade stashed in a box before it was sold at a collectible show in Toronto in 1994. The buyer was a Chesterfield resident, who displayed it in his living room for two decades before selling it last March.

Today, the piece of history hangs in a closet at the home of Beever, 49, who is not a jersey collector, but decided after approval from wife Cindy to pony up a price that would make even die-hard fans and season-ticket holders shudder. He would not say how much specifically, but in a calculated response replied: “I’d say a lesser-expensive new car. I had to move a few things around here and there to pay for it. It wasn’t like just go grab my checkbook and write a check.”