United States Airmail Postal History Astrophilately: US
Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7070
Symbol: C
Cat No: coffee?
United States, Gemini Captain's covers. 3 USS Wasp Prime Recovery Ship envelopes; GT-4 has machine cancel and autopens of the crew; GT-6A is an unaddressed 3 3/4 x 7 1/2" cover with a few spots (coffee?) but otherwise attractive with bold hand cancel and unstuck flap; the GT-7 is a massive envelope 4 1/2 x 10 1/4" unaddressed with stray staining on the left margin and lovely hand strike on recovery day. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7071
Symbol: C
United States, Early Sarzin cachet assortment. Useful lot of Clyde Sarzin covers in decent condition; Explorer I, Vanguard I (with odd NASA meatball), Explorer III (another meatball), Vanguard II, Explorer VI, Satellite ice cream cone, Space mice (Sally, Amy and Moe), MA-1, MA-2, MR-3 (two types), MR-4, Robot, Enos (two types), and UN welcomes astronauts; a total of 16 envelopes; slight to moderate toning noted. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7072
Symbol: C
Cat No: Sep 9
United 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)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7073
Symbol: C
Cat No: Jun 3
United States, 1966 (Jun 3), Gemini 9A autographed by See and Bassett. Crew: Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene Cernan. In late February See and Bassett were flying a T-38 into Lambert Field in St Louis; weather was poor and the Prime crew crashed into the McDonald Douglas plant where their spacecraft was being produced; the envelope is autographed by Elliot See and Charles A. Bassett II; a Cape Canaveral machine cancel postmarked on the day the Backup crew (Stafford and Cernan) flew to orbit; obviously extremely rare; waterspot has obliterated the "II" on Bassett's name; franking is poorly tied to the envelope. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7074
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
United States, Grade A Prime, Prime Recovery Ship covers. Eleven better examples for your PRS collection; USS Randolph (MA-6) Captain's cover with vintage JH Glenn Jr autograph; USS Farragut SRS (extremely rare); USS Intrepid (MA-7) Captain's cover (missing CO auto); USS Kearsarge (MA-9) Captain's cover with hand cancel and cachet in black; USS Intrepid (GT-3) autographed by the CO and helo pilot; USS Wasp (GT-IV) autographed by the Captain; USS Wasp (GT-IV) Captain's cover; USS Lake Champlain (GT-V) autographed by the CO, AM hand cancel and a black cachet; USS Wasp(GT-VIA) signed by the CO on black ship cachet; unusual USS Wasp (GT-VIA) PM hand cancel with violet Beck rubber stamp cachet (and CDS type mission info) with a GT-IX machine cancel as well (GT-IX Beck RS on reverse); and lastly a USS Leonard F Mason (GT-VIII) SRS which became a Prime, to top it off it is franked with a C65; typical glue toning on MA-6. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7075
Symbol: C
Cat No: SV-5
United States, Curious mission related covers. 22 covers seldom seen; extremely rare salvage ship USS Preserver from Gemini V; Gemini VI scrub cover postmarked at the Kennedy Space Center; PRIME (SV-5) postmarked Vandenberg AFB; 5 Project ASSESS covers for each flight day, Jun 2-6, 1975; scarce Prime Recovery Ship (PRS) USNS Range Recoverer Master postmarked Oct 10, 1970 for the Mars chute castor rocket; Approach and Landing Test (ALT) envelopes postmarked at Edwards AFB for Free Flight 1 and 2; a total of 5 covers carried from Det 15, 39 ARRW (Patrick AFB) on Chopper 4 in support of STS-1; very unusual Shuttle Launch Area Security envelope from USCGC Steadfast (autographed) responsible for escorting a Soviet "Fishing" Trawler from the Restricted Impact Area; four UTC Liberty SRB recovery ship covers for STS-2, one postmarked KSC Nov 16, 1981 and three Cape Canaveral on Nov 20, the three CC covers are autographed by the Master (Bond, James Bond); autographs of two Test Directors on a STS-6 mission emblem envelope; lastly is an envelope carried in a rescue tank (Hard Top One) in support of STS-45 and signed by KSC Pad Rescue #5. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7076
Symbol: C
United States, Minorities finally get a seat in the spacecraft. For the first 20 years NASA had only one kind of astronaut, white men; beginning with Sally Ride in 1983, the space agency began to diversify flight personnel by gender and race; autographs included, Sally K. Ride, Linda Godwin, Anna Lee Fisher, Marsha Ivins, Ellen Baker, Kathy Thorton, Shannon Lucid, Bonnie Dunbar, Rhea Seddon, Barbara R. Morgan, Guion Bluford, Ellison Onizuka, Fred Gregory, and Ronald Mc Nair; 11 envelopes in all. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7077
Symbol: C
Cat No: $9.95
United States, High value USPS space products. Five great product types beautifully packaged ready to market; 2842 ($9.95) Men on the Moon FDC Express Mail next day service USPS supplied cardboard envelopes (5); 1909 ($9.35) Eagle and Moon STS-8 FLOWN flight cover and folder (18); 2841 (29 cent) with FLOWN encapsulated 2842 ($9.95) Tribute to space exploration FDC (8); World Expo 2000 Space Achievement & Exploration FDC deluxe folder containing 3409 (60 cent block of six), 3410 ($1 set of five), 3411 ($3.20 pair), 3412 ($11.75 world) and 3413 ($11.75 astronaut); "Silk" cachet ASDA cards with FDC and show cancels, included is FDC set from Aniheim and three sets from Expo Station (as well as 17 blank cards and numerous envelopes); issued price $830; 28 products extremely clean and ready to be monitized. Shipping charges apply - weight 6.6 lbs. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7078
Symbol: C
Cat No: Sep 9
United 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)
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Lot No: 7079
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United States, Vintage Aldrin photograph with cosmonauts. Fresh portrait color photograph of Buzz Aldrin and two cosmonauts probably taken at an aerospace conference; all are in business suits with the Soviets sporting medals and Aldrin with a conference pin and an astronaut pin on his lapel; all have signed under their images; white frame has the faint cream appearance common of that era; printed on Kodak paper, Pristine with no cracks or creased corners. (Image)
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Sale No: 5158
Lot No: 7081
Symbol: C
Cat No: 19610505
United 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)
