posted 05-25-2012 06:50 PM               

• Apollo 15 Surface Flown Sieger Cover

  Among the scarcest of all flown to the Moon items, one of the 100 Sieger covers from Apollo 15. Of all the flown covers, very few ever made it to the lunar surface. These are among the elite and after the Apollo 11 flown covers, these are the obvious choice for most important. These covers made history and changed the nature of what astronauts could fly. After more than 40 years since they originally were sold by Hermann Sieger in Europe ($1500 each), only 4 of these covers have resurfaced for public sale.

  Not only is this a gem, but it also has the complete documentation that originally was issued at the time that Sieger offered these. Included is the cover, a typed and signed offering by Sieger, the original receipt typed and signed by Sieger and the incredible information booklet that he furnished the buyers with some months after their sale.

  Recent auction sales of a flown Apollo 13 and Apollo 14 covers fetched in the $30,000 range and neither have the historic impact that these covers have.

  An exceptionally rare opportunity to acquire one of the most important and controversial artifacts from Apollo, as well as it being a surface flown item.

• Apollo 15 Flown Sieger/Crew Owned Cover

  Here is one of the crew owned NASA confiscated covers that were flown aboard Apollo 15. It is number 17, with the handwritten correction and the notarized letter that always accompanies these. This is the lowest serial numbered cover I have ever seen offered to date. In addition, there is a typed and signed certification from Mrs. Irwin, Jim Irwin's wife, that the cover was flown and from Irwin's personal collection.

  The cover carries the very desirable First Man on the Moon stamp.

posted 06-25-2012 06:28 PM               

The Crew Owned cover is serial number #17 , the lowest serial numbered cover known, also with the handwritten correction and First Man stamp, while the Sieger 100 cover is complete with the 3 other documents, which no other has ever been offered.

posted 06-26-2012 09:25 AM               

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Originally posted by lunareagle:
with the handwritten correction and the notarized letter that always accompanies these.

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Could you explain that please? I am not a prospective purchaser but I am interested in the history. Thank you.

posted 06-27-2012 11:42 AM               

For clarity and to answer DSuess5490, your cover was a Crew Owned, one of 298 covers, and not a Sieger 100 cover, which there are just 100. If you read the above link you will see that only three of the covers have come up for sale publicly since the mission 41 years ago. I have the fourth one to offer.

The three that did sell were strictly the cover. The cover being offered here is complete with the cover, a receipt signed by Sieger, a marketing letter also signed by Sieger and a booklet that he published shortly after that discussed the entire story of the covers, all in German.