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yeknom-ecaps
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posted 07-15-2022 10:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can any space mail enthusiasts shed any background on this "Kniga certified" flown cover? Was it in fact really flown aboard the mission to Salyut 6 or what?

cosmos-walter
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posted 07-15-2022 12:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please, submit a higher resolution scan of this cover.

yeknom-ecaps
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posted 07-15-2022 03:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for checking Walter.

cosmos-walter
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posted 07-16-2022 04:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Flown covers from Soyuz 35 to 38 have the larger pentagonal seal of Salyut-6. The Soviet foreign trade organisation Mezhdunarodnaia kniga (international books) sold flown covers as well as unflown souvenir covers. Both were accompanied by a certificate stating that it was flown in space which in many cases was co-signed by a participating cosmonaut.

Although the date 23 09 80 was used in space as well as on Earth, this very cover definitively is an unflown souvenir cover.

yeknom-ecaps
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posted 07-16-2022 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Walter - thought so but want to confirm. Appreciate your reply.

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