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[b]Space Cover 725: Not a space cover but a memento[/b] Above a cover with pictorial cancel commemorating the launch of Soyuz TMA-03M with the cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (RKA), and the astronauts Don Pettit (NASA) and Andre Kuipers (ESA) direction to ISS. But wait! ...and the city name? Where is? And the date? Is missing too? Then is it a cover with an official postmark? Obviously, answer is not. This is not a real space cover according FIP Astrophilately Regulations and APS Manual of Philatelic Judging and Exhibiting (in the specific part for Astrophilately) because any of two pillars of Astrophilately are present: PLACE and DATE. Special characteristic of Astrophilately is shown covers postmarked at nearby post office on exact date and the cover below has not postmarked at any place and at any date. Simply, this is not a postmark but a cancel, a private cancel, produced to mark the stamp and anything else. All of us have seen this kind of items created to fix our eyes and not our brains. Any motivation for an astrocollector is located in this item. If this has not a postmark, if the cancel has not any place referred to and not a date is enclosed, then is just a [b]memento[/b], an item to be sold in touristic shops addressed to no collector people. It seems a nonsense have to explain something so basic like this, but for several times along my years as collectors mementos like this have been me offered and listed as space cover. If you have in your boxes other mementos, please feel free to post here an image and all we see other items without different concepts. Thanks.
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