posted 02-08-2022 02:10 PM               

Depicted below are just a few assortment selections of the larger envelope-covers, even with two going back to the 1940's and 50's. They represent a variety of different aerospace and company letterhead-envelopes, cachet types, printed issues, and various postal cancellations (many with dual or multiple cancels).

I just thought it might be a fun topic to share with other space cover/stamp collectors and enthusiasts in this forum. If there is any further interest, I'll be happy to post other covers in this unusual space collecting category (I've got many more) and please feel free to share any of your own legal-size envelopes here.

posted 02-08-2022 07:07 PM               

I generally avoid legal sized covers unless they bring something to the table that I can't get in a regular size cover. Here are a few of mine that made that cut:

posted 02-10-2022 02:00 PM               

Legal sized envelopes hold a special place in my collection. They are honestly my favorite size to acquire as they often tell an interesting story. Plus there is plenty of room for a design, when I go about making covers I typically use this size so that the cachet has room to breathe.

At shows they are often astray or jammed into the sides and bottoms of dealer boxes. They rest waiting to be discovered in heaps of unsorted commercial mail. Over the years, many a treasure has been found and rescued this way. I make time to search and sort these as you never know what can be found.

I really enjoy seeing what others have found so I'll share a few of my favorite covers below. From FDCs, to recovery ships, to space dealer commercial mail, what's not to love!

posted 02-10-2022 02:50 PM               

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Originally posted by micropooz:
Here are a few of mine that made that cut

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Your Apollo 11 cachet from NASA's Launch Vehicle Operations directorate (LVO) should have a letter inside signed by long-time LVO Director Hans Gruene. He was an original Dornberger/von Braun team leader from the German V-2 war years that came with Debus to the U.S. in 1945, later, he became the second NASA employee assigned to work at the newly established Kennedy Space Center.

I also like your Reaction Motors, Inc. company letterhead- envelope, of which, I have two of' them in mint or unused condition. Mine came from the personal collection of U.S. rocket pioneer Lovell Lawrence, the key founder of Reaction Motors as president and chairman of the board. As you know, he developed the Bell X-1 4-nozzle engine series that Yeager flew in breaking the sound barrier in 1947. I'll soon have a display artifact presentation project pertaining to his original or vintage papers of notes, calculations, and schematics all done in his own hand.

My thanks to those cS readers that have emailed me asking to see more space-related legal size envelopes, so here are a few more. This one will focus mostly on U.S. human spaceflights of the X-15 (one issue), Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab all with #10 size envelope material. May do a shuttle theme along with rockets, satellites, and deep space probes if there is interest. Thanks for looking.

posted 02-10-2022 10:15 PM               

I've got a couple of boxed saved envelopes like this myself going back decades, most of which, was mail that I have received throughout all of those years while mainly operating SpaceCoast Cover Service.

This includes probably a few hundred aerospace company, contractor, NASA centers, space firms of many areas, military, and other space-related letterhead envelopes as well, many with interesting printed designs, company logos, and more. Some are not in the best condition, though, after keeping them for so long going back to the late 1960's onwards.

posted 02-12-2022 03:27 PM               

This is one of the covers that I sent to the post office at Mojave, CA for the flight aboard the XCOR Aerospace EZ Rocket Plane flight on December 3, 2005. It was postmarked again on arrival at California City, CA. The rubber stamp cachet was applied after the envelopes were returned back to me.