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[b]Space Cover 631: Sokolsky Cachets[/b] Most space collections, including mine, will have covers in them from the 1960s with Sokolsky cachets. But who was Sokolsky and how were the covers created/sold? I have tried to find references to these cachets but have not found the creator of them or anything about how they were produced/sold. The earliest cachet produced by Sokolsky seems to be for the Scott Carpenter Mercury flight on May 24, 1962 from Port Canaveral (top cover in the scans) and an error in the cachet as it incorrectly states "Two Orbits" as Carpenter made three orbits. The cachet contains the classic Sokolsky "signature as part of the cachet. Later Sokolsky cachets were "multi-purpose" with the cachets appearing for multiple events with rubber stamp or printed wording added to describe the event. For example, the Gemini 5 cachet (third cachet scanned) also appears for the Little Joe Abort Test at WSMR on May 13, 1964 and the Gemini 6 scrub on October 25, 1965 with a Cape Canaveral cancel. Similarly, the Sokolsky X-15 cachet appears on multiple X-15 flights from Edwards Air Force Base. The Sokolsky cachets could also be quite detailed as shown with the futuristic space station in the second cover scan. Please post if you know anything about Sokolsky, who was he/she? What cachets were produced? Earliest and latest use? How were thy obtained? or any other information you may have.
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