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ollga22
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posted 09-12-2015 08:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ollga22   Click Here to Email ollga22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please help to understand. Is it onboard covers or not? On cover stamps of spacecraft "Salyut 7".

cosmos-walter
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posted 09-13-2015 02:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In my collection I have a cover very similar to the upper one. It is the same envelope with same board postmarks including the Indian with wrong date 38.34.84.

My cover has three signatures but no pentagonal seal of Salyut 7. Thus it most likely is an unflown souvenir cover.

The pentagonal seal was only used in the space station. However, fakes on unflown souvenir covers exist. Therefore, this seal would need careful examination — especially since there are no signatures on both covers.

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