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Topic: Space Unit Recovery Ship Cover
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Ross
Member Posts: 472
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 08:33 AM
   
I've placed a scan of an interesting Apollo 10 Recovery Ship cover on the home page of the Space Unit site. It appears to have a Space Unit cachet! Does anyone have information on this or similar covers. What is the background to this cover? Were covers produced for other ships?Were covers produced for other missions?regards
Ross |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 06:24 PM
Wow! I've never seen that cachet before, much less on a recovery cover. Can't wait to hear the story... |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 191
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 08:18 PM
I've seen that cachet before, but dont know if it had the space unit emblem on it or not, just cant place where i've seen it, I am thinking it was on a space first day cover. Will keep looking.... |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 191
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-29-2007 11:50 AM
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Originally posted by Joe Frasketi:
I've seen that cachet before, but dont know if it had the space unit emblem on it or not, just cant place where i've seen it, I am thinking it was on a space first day cover. Will keep looking....
OK, I found the this cachet on another cover, it is an Apollo 11 FDC 09/09/1969 (#C76), which is exactly as shown on the Space Unit webpage. My cover was purchased in the Space Unit auction back in Feb 1985. Joe |
DOX32
Member Posts: 242
From: Lakewood Ranch FL USA
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 03-29-2007 08:51 PM
Joe,I collect any C76 cover with an unsusal cachet. If it is for sale, send me an email. By the way, I have a numnber of your local post autographed covers. Still doing them? Woody |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 03-29-2007 10:05 PM
That's an interesting cover indeed. I've not seen a Space Unit cover like that one before, and I used to collect space-related ship cancels back in the day.BTW, the dad of one of my best friends was a radioman aboard Ozark in 1969 and was aboard when the ship served with TF140 as Atlantic contingency recovery ship for Apollo 10 and Apollo 11. His cruise book had pictures of the boilerplate they practiced recovery exercises with. jodie |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 191
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-08-2007 05:43 PM
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On Mar 29, i wrote:
I found this cachet on another cover, it is an Apollo 11 FDC 09/09/1969 (#C76), which is exactly as shown on the Space Unit webpage.
it is now illustrated here:
 Under the little image of the greek god Apollo in the top left corner of the cachet there is the inscription "Apollo 12". Evidently this cachet was prepared for the Apollo 12 flight in Nov. 1969, and I can understand how it was serviced for the Apollo 11 stamp first day as the postal service was cancelling FDC's many months after the first day date of Sept 9, 1969. What is hard to understand is this cachet with a cancel from an Apollo 10 recovery ship in May 1969.
One explaination is that the cachet was applied afterwards to the cover that had no cachet from the Apollo 10 recovery ship. Now we need someone to find this cachet on a cancelled Apollo 12 flight cover. Joe www.spacecovers.com
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Ross
Member Posts: 472
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 04-09-2007 09:20 AM
I've now seen two more of these covers from Apollo 10 Recovery ships - the USS Chilton and the USS Rich |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 191
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-11-2007 03:31 PM
Well the mystery continues on this cachet.....
I just found an Apollo 8 FDC (#1371) with this same cachet, with a label address.The backside of this cover has a 3 line rubber stamp marking that reads " Compliments of the ATA Space Unit, It pays to belong!" Could it be that this was just a cacheted envelope that was mailed free to members which then could be serviced as the member so desired? I would think that an officer or director in the ATA Space Unit serving in 1969 might be able to shed some light on this cachet, or a SU member who has better memory than I, might remember receiving such a cacheted envelope. Joe, www.spacecovers.com (this cachet is also listed as an ATA Space Unit cachet, #8 in the Mellone's Specialized Cachet Catalog of First Day Covers of the 1960's, for #1371). |
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