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[b]Space Cover #547: Unusual Carl Swanson Rubber Stamp Cachet[/b] This week's Space Cover of the Week features a very unusual rubber stamp cachet produced by famed cachet artist Carl Swanson. Carl Swanson was the artist who produced the cachets for Space Craft Covers and along with owner and business partner Joe Fitzpatrick, they produced hundreds of Space Craft Covers throughout the 1960's. After Joe Fitzpatrick passed away in early 1970, Carl kept producing Space Craft Covers for the Apollo lunar flights and a few miscellaneous events in the 1970's. In addition to the beautiful printed and mission-specific cachets for Space Craft Covers Carl Swanson also produced a number of generic rubber stamp cachets to be used by various cover servicers to commemorate launches and space events. Pictured here are some examples of maybe the most unusual of these rubber stamp cachets. These examples show the same cachet used over a period of at least 6 years. With the cachet referring specifically to Spy Satellites and the description of the mission on the bottom of the cachet these must have had limited use. The only difference in the cachets other than the color is the addition of the title "Spook Bird" added to one of them. What makes this cachet maybe the most unusual of all the Swanson produced cachets is that though a few of the cachets have the "Swanson" added somewhere in the cachet, this Spy Satellite cachet seems to be the only rubber stamp cachet to have the Space Craft logo included. Does anyone know more to the story behind this cachet?
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