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U.S. Space Flights continued...

Unmanned Rocket Test Flights
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
6421   imageUnited States, 1958 (Dec 13), Gordo monkey flight, propelled into space aboard a Jupiter ICBM; launched the week NASA announced Project Mercury intended to put an American in orbit; premium Goldcraft artwork. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
6422   imageUnited States, 1959 (Sep 9), Big Joe 1 postcard, great example of the BJ-1 flight on an Atlas postcard; Port Canaveral hand cancel very readable, a wonderful example; included is the "return to port" date (Sep 10) on a Navaho missile postmark, poor contrast but legible; a key item. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
6423   imageUnited States, 1959 (Sep 9), Big Joe 1 postcard, Titan postcard with scarce BJ-1 Project Mercury qualification launch date; also a "return to port" Sept 10 postcard showing a Redstone missile, unfortunately the black postmark on a night sky is quite hard to read; key none the less. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
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6424   imageUnited States, 1961 (Nov 10), Goliath monkey flight, riding an Atlas ICBM this astrochimp was lost when the booster exploded; Patrick Air Force Base machine cancel; attractive SpaceCraft multicolored art. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
6425   imageUnited States, 1961 (Nov 29), Mercury-Atlas 5 Monkey covers, Swanson generic missile with Patrick AFB machine cancel, Harry Gordon add-on to Port Canaveral AM hand cancel, Sarazin Port Canaveral PM hand cancel, and Zazo Port Canaveral AM hand cancel; lot also includes a Jan 20, 1961 colony of chimps work towards upcoming flight,Oct 13, 1969 Sarazin space mice, and photo add-on and printed Nov 10, 1961 Goliath envelope; total of 7 items. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
6426   imageUnited States, 1961, Monkey flight in Atlas ICBM, chimp Scatback was integral to this early Bio Sat mission; green generic Swanson rubber stamp cachet; Patrick Air Force Base machine cancel postmarked once the post office opened the following day; label stain, very scarce and desireable Mercury qualification flight. (Image)

Suggested Bid $250-350
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
6427   imageUnited States, Tough Project Mercury qualification dates, few collectors paid attention to qualification flights are and therefore absent from many collections; BJ-1 (better example with the Atlas postcard), Thor postcard with the Sep 10 "return to port" date; MR-1A with generic Swanson; MA-3 with generic Swanson; LJ-5B with attractive Rocket fired from Wallops Island; Sarzin MA-2; generic Swanson MR-BD; Sarzin MR-3; and Sarzin MR-4; 9 important items for your collection. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Suggested Bid $500-750
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
6428   imageUnited States, Project Mercury before John Glenn, grouping of sub-orbital and unmanned Mercury flight covers; Patrick AFB machine cancel on blank cover postmarked the day before America's first manned spaceflight (MR-3); Port Canaveral hand cancels (one Sarzin capsule up, another capsule down); two Sarzin (MR-4) Phase 2 covers and a Fuerst Virgil I Grissom airmail envelope; two Harry Gordon MA-4 robot covers postmarked at Port Canaveral; and two MA-5 (Enos) envelopes, one a PM Sarzin and the other blank and addressed to Barbara Baker. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
6429   imageUnited States, Monkeys, robots, and ballistic space shots, a similar grouping with the exception that one of the Enos cachets is Zaso, and the robots are Sarzin and generic Swanson. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
6430   imageUnited States, Sometimes the best man for the job isn't, ever since humans have flown balloons and rockets, biological specimens and animals have gone along; Sarzin Sally, Amy and Moe (mice) travelled on a 5000 mile ride in an Atlas ICBM (1960), a white rat payload accompanied a sounding rocket from Wallops Island (1964); as part of the Mercury spacecraft qualification series a Rank flocked Ham launch (MR-2), a Sazin Ham launch (1961), and a USS Warrington recovery envelope (SRS), also a Sarzin Enos flight (MA-5) cover; three autographed Scout sounding rocket envelopes from the NASA facility at Wallops Island investigating inner ear biology in frogs (1970); good stuff. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
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6431   imageUnited States, Mercury and Apollo qualification flights, Unglamorous (but vital) engineering tests; six Mercury and six Apollo; Goldley May 9, 1960 Beach Abort (BA), Hudson Nov 8, 1960 Little Joe 5 (LJ-5), Hudson Mar 18, 1961 Little Joe 5A (LJ-5A), Swanson Apr 25, 1962 Mercury Atlas 3 (MA-3), Swanson Apr 28, 1961 Little Joe 5B (LJ-5B), document cachet Sep 13, 1961 Mercury Atlas 4 (MA-4); Sokolsky May 13, 1964 Little Joe II (A-001), White Sands Dec 8, 1964 Abort 2 (A-002), White Sands May 19, 1965 Abort 3 (A-003), White Sands Jun 29, 1965 Pad Abort Test 2 (PA-2) (2 examples), Orbit Jan 20, 1966 Abort 4 (A-004). (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
6432   imageUnited States, Mercury qualification flights prior to orbit, a better group of covers and postcards leading up to Glenn's orbital Atlas flight; BJ-1 on a Jupiter IRBM, "return to port" Sep 10 on a Bomarc postcard; BA on Hudson document cachet (beautiful cancel); LJ-5 addressed to Zaso with Hudson rubber stamp; black Swanson generic missile fired for MR-1A; Goldey (sealed with slight wrinkles) for MA-2; Hudson LJ-5A; Harry Gordon attractive MR-BD hand cancel; Swanson generic MA-3; Hudson LJ-5B; Sarzin MR-3; and Swanson MR-4 in green; 12 great examples of important flights. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
6433   imageUnited States, 1964 (May 13), Little Joe II, the remarkable success of the Saturn, Saturn 1B, and Saturn V was due to extensive qualification testing; HiLite (Tom Dixon) cover postmarked May 13, 1964 for the A-001 abort test; a Rank flockless LJ-II envelope from A-001 also postmarked Satellite Beach later in the month for the SA-6 launch; great looking WSMR cachet and roller cancel from Las Cruces for the May 19, 1965 test of A-003; four copies of the PA-2 pad abort with Sokolsky art in purple; to sweeten the pot a GT-VI Agena scrub with silver Sokolsky is included; 8 covers in total. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
Mercury Flights (1961-1963)
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
6434   imageUnited States, 1961 (May 5), Shepard U.S.S. Lake Champlain Prime Recovery Ship, Arguably the most difficult Prime to acquire; a superb hand cancel with standard rubber stamp; beautiful full vintage Shepard autograph (possible atypical autopen?) with partial address of Peter Van Miert, an early Astrophilatelist; this will be the finest Prime Recovery Ship in your collection, outstanding postmark; label stains and evidence of prior photo mount in left lower corner; hinge remnant on reverse, reportedly only 44 philatelic covers were mailed from the ship; in contrast the U.S.S Hornet mailed 250,000 philatelic covers for Apollo 11. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $2,000-3,000
CLOSED
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6435   imageUnited States, 1961 (July 21), Grissom Prime Recovery Ship Type II with AUTO, Locating a genuine Grissom autograph is a find; getting one on a Type II U.S.S. Randolph Prime Recovery Ship is extra special; don't let this get away; faint label stains noted. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
6436   imageUnited States, 1961 (July 21), Grissom U.S.S. Randolph Type II Prime Recovery Ship, Recovery ship covers from the suborbital flight of Grissom are rare. Especially difficult is finding a complete, legible Type II postmark; this one also has an attractive magenta Registry hand stamp; the signature is an autopen; Very faint toning from glue lines and slight residual from address label, Type II (ship name on top) are very scarce. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $1,200-1,800
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction
6437   imageUnited States, 1961 (July 21), Grissom Type I U.S.S. Randolph Prime Recovery Ship, Amvet label (overwritten as Second Manned Space Flight) on fresh suborbital Prime; the hand cancel is quite crisp and the airmail envelope adds color. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
6438   imageUnited States, 1961 (July 21), Grissom U.S.S. Lowry sub-orbital Secondary Recovery Ship, Airmail cover with superb hand cancel on uncommon Secondary Recovery Ship; accompanying note on ship letterhead addressed to Les Winnick explains Commanding Officer autograph added in 1964; also USS Remey and USS English (MA-7); USS Kaskaskia and USS Renshaw (MA-8); Canton Island (MA-9); and USS Fort Snelling (MOL), only the second sub-orbital Secondary Recovery Ship cover we've seen in 30 years—and the only autographed example. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
6439   imageUnited States, 1962 (Feb 20), Glenn Prime Recovery Ship with bold P.M. cancel, Non-backdated envelope serviced on the destroyer that collected Col. Glenn; stamped corner card ship information with add on picture and vintage J H Glenn Jr signature, while covers with other than Mercury stamps (#1193) are considered genuine, these scarce P.M. versions are especially desirable. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $600-800
SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction
6440   imageUnited States, 1962 (Feb 20), Glenn Prime Recovery Ship with P.M. postmark, Very attractive U.S.S. Noa hand cancel with P.M. cancel (not backdated) on seldom seen aerogram; Gordon-type add-on cachet and vintage J H Glenn Jr autograph complete this exceptional item, while Feb 20th postmarks with non-Mercury stamps are considered non-backdated, these scarce P.M. versions are considered unimpeachable. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $500-750
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction

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