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U.S. Space Flights continued...

Misc. American Space Flights continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
6561   imageUnited States, Useful recovery ship remainder lot, Mercury, two MA-7 Captain's covers (not signed by CO but autographed by Scott Carpenter), rare USS Farragut SRS, two MA-8 PRS signed by the Captain, corner card from USS Bennington postmarked on the PRS, USNS Huntsville (part of Task Force 130) cancelled on the USS Kearsarge, beautiful MA-9 Beck (B323) autographed by the CO and Gordon Cooper, attractive USS Fletcher SRS; Gemini, pair of GT-3 Primes autographed by the CO and RADM as well as four SRS (including a Beck), two GT-IV Captain's covers and a foreign envelope with a helo signature, GT-V, GT-VI, 2 GT-VII with signatures, Beck GT-VIII SRS, GT-IX machine and the tougher hand cancel, two GT-XI with autographs, three GT-XII, a Captain's cover, a PRS with a violet cachet, and a third in black; Apollo, Ap-9 PRS, USNS Vanguard support, a pair of autographed Ap-10, UDT swimmers on Ap-11 SRS, pair of lovely Ap-13 SRS (one with key of Ap-13 Review Board, and the other the Governor of American Samoa on a Beck), Ap-14 PRS, Ap-16 PRS, and Ap-17 PRS autographed by the Prime Recovery pilot; 46 envelopes of which 27 are Prime; some toning on MA-8 covers. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
6562   imageUnited States, Pioneer women in the shuttle program, Shannon Lucid (2) on an Ames wind tunnel test and another on an envelope canceled at Marshall Space Flight Center; Anna Lee Fisher (2) on a Goddard Space Flight Center cover postmarked for the first launch of the shuttle program and another for the STS-51A mission; Sally K Ride (3) on a STS-3 cover, STS-2 Goldstone tracking cover, and a Johnson Space Center cover for the announcement of Group 8; Jerrie Cobb (a Mercury 13) on a SpaceCraft MA-6 launch envelope; bonus items include an early Vandenberg launch (Dec 4, 1959), all six original Canadian astronauts on a FDC, and high value FDC for $9.35, $9.95, $10.75, $10.75 9a different one), and $14; 15 items in total. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

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Suggested Bid $300-400
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6563   imageUnited States, NASA leadership autographs on 22 covers, only three seats available to fly to the Moon but LOTS of moving parts (and people) to get them there; set of three KSC envelopes with either 6 or 7 signatures each; Gerald Ford noted on one; CAPCOMs who signed included, Brand, Hartsfield, Schweickart, Mattingly, McCandless, Bobko and Crippen; flight directors Eugene Kranz (3), Christopher C Kraft, Gerald D Griffin and Glynn Lunney; flight surgeon Charles A Berry; Center Directors Rocco Petrone, John Clark, and Robert R Gilruth; top leadership George M Low, Tom Paine (2), James E Webb (3), Sam C Phillips, Hugh Dryden, and Robert C Seamans; stray autographs include Deke Slayton, David Brinkley and Spiro T Agnew; lastly are astronauts acting as CAPCOM on a shuttle mission including Overmyer, Gregory, Lind, Thagard, Thornton, Berg and Wang. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
6564   imageUnited States, Curious Orbit Covers cachet-based signed folders, elaborate cardstock intended to be folded in booklet form; the left (intended as the back cover) has the engraved Orbit Covers cachet used on envelopes; each has Project Mercury stamps postmarked at Cape Canaveral on launch day; present are MA-8 (x4) (Schirra), MA-9 (x3) (Cooper), GT-3 (x2) (Grissom/Young), GT-IV (McDivitt/White), and GT-V (x2) (Conrad/Cooper); each is signed by a NASA Director or recovery personel, mostly helo or UDT swimmers; 24 seldom seen autographs. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
6565   imageUnited States, Kennedy Space Center Officials for the specialist, 188 launch covers with the rubber stamp cachet applied by NASA; very collectable; includes GT-VII, Spirit 7/6 light (3), AS-201 (4), GT-VIII (7), GT-IX (10), GT-X (3), AS-202 (3), GT-XI (4), GT-XII (10), Surveyor C (2), AS-501 (2), AS-204 (4), AP-6 (6), AP-7 (6), AP-8 (10), AP-9 (6), AP-10 (9), AP-11 (38), AP-12 (10), AP-11 Anniv, AP-14, MR-3 Anniv (13), AP-15, AP-16 (4), AP-17 (4), SL-1, SL-2, SL-3 (2), SL-4 (3), Helios (10), ASTP (4), Viking A, Viking B; also includes 44 meters with stamp themes and 13 Vandy Officials; 245 covers in total. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.2 lbs. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
6566   imageUnited States, Autopen reference collection, 23 envelopes consisting of event (Gordon add-on and Orbit), PRS (Beck rubber stamp), and blank Project Mercury FDCs; autopens include Grissom, Young, McDivitt, Cooper, Conrad, Haise, Duke, Mc Candless, Eisele, Borman, Schirra, Irwin, Duke, Mattingly, Carr, Anders, President Johnson, Secretary Mc Namara, Secretary Rusk, Senator Stevenson, and President Nixon. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
6567   imageUnited States, NASA leadership autographs on cover, attractive grouping of key personnel on a variety of envelopes; George M Low (NASA Administrator), George E Mueller (Associate Administrator), Rocco A Petrone (KSC Dir of Launch Operations), Robert R Gilruth (x2) (Dir Manned Spacecraft Center), John L Clark (Dir Goddard Space Flight Ctr), Tom Paine (NASA Administrator), and Floyd L Thompson (Dir Langley Research Ctr); total of 8 items. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction
6568   imageUnited 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) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
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6569   imageUnited States, Sarzin historical space documents, even before Project Mercury Clyde Sarzin was creating folded vellum-like presentations cancelled on the appropriate day; 22 in this group include Enos (2), Shepard (3), Grissom (3), Glenn (5), Carpenter (2), GT-3, GT-IV, GT-V, Brien McHahon, Echo 1 (2), and the Cuba Blockade. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
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6570 1434-35 imageUnited States, Artwork of Robert McCall (Scott 1434-35), wonderful grouping of McCall FDCs; entire envelope sketch and signature on Decade of Achievement (1434-35); autographs of Robert McCall and Jerry Carr on a Skylab (1529) cover and what appears to be a printed drawing of a water recovery on an envelope reverse; two Pioneer (1556) covers each with great sketches related to the stamp; four ASTP (1569-70) envelopes (three difference cachets); and lastly a First Man on the Moon (C76) FDC signed by Paul Calle in red; 10 autographed covers in total. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction
6571   imageUnited States, 1963 (Dec 10), Wernher von Braun collection, useful group of eight autographs and one autopen for reference; bold felt tip on Dec 1963 Cape Canaveral launch with thermographic cachet; signatures on the three values of 1934 German rocket mail labels; delightful autographs on Ft Bliss V-2 plate block; autopen is a pattern 1 on an Apollo 11 cover correctly cancelled in Houston on the day of the Moon landing. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
6572   imageUnited States, (1963), Phenominal NASA Group 3 collection, pristine collection of all 14 NASA astronauts selected in Oct 1963;each on an individual cover postmarted in Washington, DC on the announcement date; all are addressed to a prominent collector with attractive franking and amateurish (but handsome) artwork; included is a lovely ALS from Charlie Bassett and a second envelope signed by Richard Gordon; autographs of Anders, Bean, Cernan, Collins, Chaffee, Williams, Cunningham, Schweickart, Aldrin, Freeman, Eisele, Gordon, Scott, and Bassett, not easily duplicatable. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
6573   imageUnited States, (1965), NASA KSC Officials from 1965-75, SA-10, Spirit of 7/6 light (3), Spirit of 7/6 dark, GT-IX (2), 1967 Fire Prevention, AS-501, AP-9, AP-12 (3), 10th Anniversary MR-3, AP-17 (suspect signatures); also SL-2, SL-3, and SL-4 on a single trifold card; BONUS: 7 Vandy Officials including Magsat (2), Landsat-C (4) and Tiros-N; toning upper left corner of SA-10, SA-10 and 1967 Fire Prevention are scarce. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
6574 2419 imageUnited States, 1989, $2.40 Moon Landing first day covers (Scott 2419), high denomination values on FDCs honoring space exploration; 44 of the $2.40 20th anniversary stamp (2419) including a lovely example postmarked in Houston with the a stamp (C76) created by the artist's father, Paul Calle; 5 aerograms with the $9.35 value (1909) and 2 from the $10.75 stamp (2122); commercially used stamps on large piece including, 4 $3 shuttle (2544), 6 $3.20 shuttle (3261), and 2 $3 Mars Pathfinder (3178); bonus, USPS A Tribute to Space Exploration with an encapsulated $9.95 stamp (2842) FLOWN in space (and designed by Paul and Chris Calle) on a beautiful envelope with a 29 cent (2841) Calle designed stamp. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.2 lbs. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction

Soviet and Russian Space Flights

Vostok Flights (1961-1963)
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
6575   imageU.S.S.R., Pilot of Starship, published by Detgiz in 1961, this 49 page book with cardboard cover, is autographed on the title page by Gagarin and Titov (who added 4 Apr 1963); book has scrapes and is aged (and in Russian) but the pictures are wonderful and the autographs are bold. Shipping charges apply - weight 1 lbs. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
6576   imageU.S.S.R., Soviet tribute to Yuri Gagarin autographed by 42 cosmonauts and astronauts, 1986 casebound volume published in Moscow honoring the life of the first human in space; his humble roots and early military training through his Vostok 1 flight around the world and his celebrity for the remainder of his life; 220 glossy pages mostly B&W with a few color at the beginning and end; must have been signed at an ASE conference since a third are NASA astronauts; a wonderful book (if you read Russian). Shipping charges apply - weight 2.4 lbs. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
6577   imageU.S.S.R., First cosmonauts in uniform autographed on postcard, Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev and Popovich has signed below their image dressed in military dress; not postally used; very attractive. (Image)

Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
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6578   imageU.S.S.R., Delightful booklet of Vostok autographs, produced by the government in 1964 this trifold booklet has a stamp honoring the pilot from each Vostok flight; Gagarin (Vostok 1), Titov (Vostok 2), Nikolayev (Vostok 3), Popovich (Vostok 4), Bykovsky (Vostok 5) and Tereshkova (Vostok 6); presumably transmitted in a badly damaged envelope (included). (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
6579   imageU.S.S.R., Vostok-1 through 6 autographed covers as issued by the Moscow Philatelic Department, these are the key Kniga covers that every USSR/Russian collection requires; for many the best way to ensure you get a genuine Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev, Popovich, Bykovsky, and Tereshkova; minor foxing around stamps; photocopy of undated Kniga cert. (Image)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
6580   imageU.S.S.R., Similar set of autographed Vostok flights, fresh with multicolored Kniga cachets. (Image)

Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction

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