Lot 731
Outstanding Collection of 250 Commemorative Flight Covers/First Day Covers, Spanning 50 Years of NASA Missions. Nice Apollo Mission Collection. Fine aerospace collection of first day and commemorative covers: Included are 100+ Apollo covers, the most valuable in the total collection.
11 unmanned suborbital flight covers First Day Covers, some very scarce (3-1st Sub-Orbital flight cover, covers marked Apollo 2, Apollo 3, Apollo 4, Apollo 4 and Apollo 6 Recovery Ship cover (rare)). Manned flights are Six (6) Apollo 7 covers including Beck cachet "Navy Recovery Force", Six (6) Apollo 7 first day covers with two Beck cachet Recovery Force covers., Nine (9) Apollo 9 covers including two covers with excellent crew cachets, ten (10) Apollo 19 covers again several with crew cachets, Fifteen (15) Apollo 11 covers some very scarce, several we have not seen before plus two different sets from Israel for 11,12 and 13 pulset of 4 Space City Cover Society), Nine (9) Apollo 12 covers including set of 5 from Spaceflight Cover Society and recovery cachets, Five (5) Apollo 13 covers including the Abort (Sarzin) cover and lands safely cover, Seven (7) Apollo 14 several with the exceptional silk cachets, Seven (7) Apollo 15 including on with USS Okinawa cancel, Twelve (12) Apollo 16 covers including several "tracking" first day covers and splashdown, Ten (10 Apollo 17) covers including two USS Ticonderoga hand cancels and several silk cachets and Four (4) Apollo-Soyuz covers, two being splash down/recovery covers.
There are seven French Aerospace covers that are scarce and valuable.
Balance are:
34 Supersonic covers most X-24B which are highly prized, 14 Rocketry Satellites, 15 Skylabs, 29 STS Covers, 30 More STS Covers having only to do with Columbia, 30 in orbit covers 29 STS Covers many from launch to set down, plus 60 miscellaneous. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000
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