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1304

Space Event Classic Collection, 1958-2000, 1,500+ space event covers in 17 binders; virtually all with better cachets including Goldcraft, Inner & Outer Space, Space Voyager, Space Craft, Sarzin, Beck RS, KSC Officials and many others; 110 early Goldcraft including Explorer 1, Vanguard 1, Pioneer 1, numerous Discoverer, Echo, Atlas, and more; better flights include MR-4, MA-2, Ham, Enos, Robot, MA-1, MA-3 and other qualification flights; Autographs on cover include Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Al Worden, Scott Carpenter, Fred Haise, James Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Jack Swigert, Kurt Debus, James Van Allen, Christopher Kraft, Thomas Paine, J H Glenn Jr, Wally Shirra, Ron Evans, Neil Armstrong & Dave Scott on GT-VIII launch cover, Ron Evans, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Michael Collins (uncounted are autopens or secretarials); nice selection of recovery ships including MA-7 Captain, GT-VIII PRS, with most from the Apollo era; astrophilatelic gold to mine here, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 67 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $3,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

1305

Saturn 5 Sized Space Collection, 1958-2019, event covers, Space City Cover Society Locals, mission patches, badges, photographs, and hardware blueprints; over 14,000 Astrophilatelic envelopes including Space Craft, Whitney, Smithsonian, Fleetwood, Coranano Silk, NASA Exchange, Space City Cover Society, Sarzin, Zazo, and Goldcraft; includes launch, tracking and communications stations, as well as Prime and Secondary Recovery Ships; large percentage are additionally franked with the Houston Local stamps; includes NASA Local Post album with the minisheets from Ap-1 through Ap-15; better cachets include Goldey Pioneer, Pioneer II, Pioneer IV, Explorer III, Explorer IV, and Vanguard II; 25,000 minisheets (over a quarter million stamps) from the Space City Cover Society; 56 astronaut and cosmonaut autographs on 6 postcards from the 7th Planitary Congress in Berlin; fakes, autopens and genuine signatures, with real autographs including McDivitt, Irwin, Worden, Brand as well as Isaac Asimov under a self portrait; about 250 high quality space related patches from missions, programs, NASA facilities, military agencies and more; 23 launch parking permits and 28 security badges (some quite uncommon); photograph of Apollo 1 crew (Grisson, White, and Chaffee) in a parking lot with two men in Gemini spacesuits (very unusual photograph), borderless Kodak photo of missile launch on a rocky coast (probably Vandenberg), Kodak borderless "Visor" shot with way too much purple, and what appears to be Enterprise vertical and stacked with two SRBs and an orange Main tank; 10 Apollo blueprints deaccessioned from the KSC SIMCOM Library; Dec 1948 issue of Thilling Wonder Stories autographed by Ray Bradbury; two volumes containing a few hundred mint topicals beautifully arranged; also misc trinkets, puzzles and pins to get you in the right head space, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 291 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $6,000.00
Will close during Public Auction