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Topic: EB: Apollo crew signed insurance-like covers
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1598
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-09-2021 06:40 PM
   
Have just posted insurance-like covers for Apollos 12, 14, and 15 on eBay. Username: dandmindc. Enjoy! |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1598
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-17-2021 06:37 PM
Under 48 hours until these close! |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1598
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-20-2021 05:43 PM
Many thanks to those who bid on the covers above!However, with a heavy heart, I must also let go of an Apollo 16 lunar landing postmark insurance-like cover. Enjoy! |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1598
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-25-2021 07:11 PM
Less than two days to go on the Apollo 16... |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 348
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 09-27-2021 04:53 PM
Why "insurance-like"? |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1598
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-27-2021 06:16 PM
Thanks to all who bid! All are sold.And "insurance-like" (probably better known as "insurance-type", my bad) was defined in all four eBay listings, including the two that NAAmodel#240 bid upon. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3307
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-27-2021 07:29 PM
There were Apollo "insurance-type" covers that I was able to acquire in large quantities for Apollos 12-16, mostly by their creator Al Bishop, a long-time personal friend of mine.The covers represented in this posting by Dennis, especially those with moon landing and some splashdown dates of Apollos 14 and 16, were done by Bishop in limited quantities. But most were KSC-cancelled on their actual launch dates. Such covers in reference to are indeed from the same batches that Bishop gave to the prime flight crews before their launch to the moon. They were to be owned and retained by crewmen and their families as official crew insurance covers (except for those of Apollo 15 which is another story). Since the Bishop-owned and given-away covers by him doesn't necessarily meet an official crew insurance cover label, a term such as "crew insurance-type" covers, I thought, would make a better definition. But there may still be a fine line if any of the Bishop covers may had been at one time early-on owned by a prime crew member or family, and before launch, were gifted and retained by Bishop. |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 348
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 09-28-2021 07:27 AM
My question concerning "insurance-like" or "insurance-type" was not to nitpick the wording. To me, they are obviously insurance covers (without further modification) and that's why I bid on them. Just wondering whether I was missing anything. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3307
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-28-2021 11:05 AM
Sorry for the misunderstanding David as I didn't mean to "nitpick" the wording as I thought you were referring to either "insurance-type" or insurance-like" descriptions. I had thought you were asking the difference between "type/like," which are the same in my opinion, than in comparison to "official insurance covers," however, other Apollo "insurance covers" may not completely fall into the same classification as with some MSCSC varieties. |
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