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Topic: Value of Silver Snoopy, Apollo/Skylab items
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toriamber
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posted 03-28-2011 06:57 PM
   
I have a Apollo era Silver Snoopy along with other items from Apollo/Skylab that were given to my mother during her years of work. Any paperwork, certificates she had at home were lost due to a house fire. All the hard items thank god was in a fire rated safe. I'm trying to get the value of all the items, I'm sure the paperwork added to everything but there is nothing we can do about that at this point. Any ideas or a place I can post photos of the items? |
capoetc
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From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 03-28-2011 08:13 PM
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Originally posted by toriamber:
... Any ideas or a place I can post photos of the items?
Hi, and welcome to collectSPACE! If you would like, you can send your pictures to me and I will post them for you. E-mail is capoetc@yahoo.com. there are a lot of knowledgeable folks around here, so you should be able to get a general idea regarding the value of your items. Two pieces of advice for you, for what it's worth: 1. Depending upon what you have, some people may send you offers that sound like fair offers -- until you are sure of what you have, I recommend that you resist accepting those offers. Most of the people here are good, well-meaning folks, but anyone can read these pages and someone may try to get you to sell them your items for well below what they are worth. 2. Depending upon the item, the paperwork is important. However, for many of us at collectSPACE it is also important to document as fully as possible the history of the space program and the people who participated in it. It might be helpful for you to prepare a short bio of your Mother's space program contributions (where she worked, what she did, any accomplishments she was especially proud of, etc) along with a photo of your Mom if you feel comfortable with doing that -- preferably a photo of her actually working at a NASA center. A Silver Snoopy is a neat item, but a Silver Snoopy owned by a particular NASA employee is of even greater interest to many collectors and will help preserve the historical significance of the item. Let me know if I can be of any help. Edit: Added these photos as requested  
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SkyMan1958
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From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 03-28-2011 08:16 PM
To get a ballpark idea, here's one link.Obviously the value of yours would vary dramatically depending on whether it was flown or not, and if it was flown what flight it was flown on. |
toriamber
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posted 03-28-2011 08:33 PM
Thanks for the input! I have researched the Snoopy for the past few months and from what I have seen it's a Variant 0 with a Vertical pin back clasp. Mom said it was flown on Apollo and given to her by Thomas Stafford. I have researched him and it makes sense that he was involved with Apollo and Skylab as was my mom.
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george9785
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From: Burnaby, BC, Canada
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted 03-28-2011 09:36 PM
Chris Spain ("spaced out" on this forum) maintains the site linked by Skyman1958. Chris would probably appreciate some info relating to the pin, particularly if you can narrow down when it was awarded to your mother. There's a NASA databank, also linked by Chris on his website, which contains many of the names of the recipients. It's not complete, but were you able to find your mother's name on the databank and the date it was awarded? |
toriamber
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posted 03-28-2011 10:02 PM
Yes, I have looked there her name is not listed. I remember the Snoopy being given to her in 1970 the date was on the award, not sure of the month. She worked at Marshall Space Flight Center - HOSC Team. I also have a Tie Clip with SKYLAB on it, looks to be silver. Not sure why she had a tie clip? |
george9785
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posted 03-28-2011 10:11 PM
There's 122 recipients named for 1970. If I remember correctly, the search engine doesn't always work by name - you might have to look at all the names listed for 1970 to possibly find your mother's name. If you can do this yourself, you should try otherwise you can provide the name here or email it to me and I'll search for it. |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 542
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-28-2011 10:47 PM
You might try calling Marshall. It's possible they could issue a replacement award certificate. Ask for the Spaceflight Awareness office. |
spaced out
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From: Paris, France
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posted 03-29-2011 12:30 PM
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Originally posted by toriamber:
Thanks for the input! I have researched the Snoopy for the past few months and from what I have seen it's a Variant 0 with a Vertical pin back clasp. Mom said it was flown on Apollo and given to her by Thomas Stafford. I have researched him and it makes sense that he was involved with Apollo and Skylab as was my mom.
In fact the details on the back of your pin are not arranged in quite the same way as the variant 0 on my site. That example I assumed to come from Apollo 7 or 8 due to the type of clasp and the fact that it didn't match known examples from Apollo 9 and 10. Of course with two flights the variant I picture could be from one and yours from the other. Unfortunately, as I have so few examples to work with it's not yet possible to really tie a pin to a particular flight as yet. Also, there is a strong possibility that a particular run of pins might have been used across more than one flight which would complicate things further. I would definitely try to contact NASA as suggested above. They may have a better record of awards than is provided in the online database. |
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