Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003

posted 10-16-2009 02:59 PM               

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I have just listed on eBay the following Lion Brothers patches, which I believe are the rarest of them all:

• A complete set of Apollo and Skylab plastic-backed prototype Lion Brothers patches : As far as I know this set is unique. I've only seen a half-dozen individual patches of this kind sold to-date, so in most cases the patches in this set are the only known examples.

• An Apollo 17 plastic-backed Lion Brothers prototype patch from crica 1972 : An early experiment with plastic backings by Lion Brothers at the time of the Apollo 17 mission. I've only seen one other example of this prototype patch.

• A rare variant of the already-rare Apollo 11 orange border Lion Brothers patch : What I suspect to be a first prototype of the rare orange border variant, this patch differs from the final version in the detail of the design. I've only seen one other example of this patch sold.

You won't get many chances to acquire these particular patches. These are the only examples I have, and in many cases, as noted above, the only examples I've ever seen.

You can go to my Lion Brothers Space Patches site to see details of these patches and side-by-side comparisons of the plastic backed versions and the regular ones.

Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003

posted 10-22-2009 04:27 PM               

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Just a reminder that the sale of this unique set of Lion Brothers prototype patches ends tomorrow.

There won't be any second chances on this lot...