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Topic: Astronaut-signed stamp blocks: authentic?
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alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-25-2012 01:05 AM
   
Is this John Glenn authentic or autopen? |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 06-25-2012 12:54 PM
Appears to be authentic. |
Dougin SoCA
Member Posts: 111
From: Aliso Viejo, Ca, USA
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 06-25-2012 01:08 PM
I don't understand though why this object was asked to be signed though. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 06-25-2012 01:20 PM
Has happened to me a couple of times - you enclose something as a) a gift or b) as return postage, and you're getting it back with an autograph instead as clearly the signer and/or his secretary did not understand the purpose of the enclosure. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-25-2012 02:38 PM
I also thought it was strange as the stamp block is not space related but it is part of my collection and I love it. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-25-2012 02:39 PM
This is another stamp block in my collection which was signed twice, felt on the edge and ball pen in the middle. Are they both Authentic?
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-25-2012 04:44 PM
Just my own opinion or 2-cents, but all look fine to me. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-26-2012 02:48 AM
Now this seems to be a bit confusing, it seems that James A. McDivitt might be authentic but Edward H. White II seems to be an autopen. Any suggestions please?  |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-26-2012 06:03 AM
Both the above signatures of McDivitt and White, that I didn't see before on this topic, are indeed autopen on the GT-4 secondary recovery ship cover. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-26-2012 09:24 AM
Thanks Ken, now I have another James A. McDivitt cover, I think this is authentic? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-26-2012 12:47 PM
The above McDivitt-signed Apollo 9 stamp souvenir sheet looks to be one of the original Sieger offered items. Yes, indeed, the autograph of the Gemini and Apollo pioneer astronaut is certainly authentic. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-27-2012 12:50 AM
They are Sieger's offered items as this collection was of a late German MD and I also hold an original COA of this collectionI am posting another two, a signed stamp and a first day cover, I have doubts on the first day cover as it might be an autopen can you please confirm.  
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-27-2012 04:38 AM
Glad to help out if I can; Yes, the Sieger-provided stamp souvenir sheet does have a genuine Alan L. Bean signature on it. On the other hand, as you called it, the Bean autograph is an autopen on the SL-3 launch postal cover. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-27-2012 05:19 AM
Thanks Ken I will be posting some more later on. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-27-2012 09:17 AM
These are the last two autopens that I think I know of in my collection they are of Charles P. Conrad Jr and L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
 
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-27-2012 03:14 PM
Correct, the above Cooper and Conrad are indeed autopens. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 06-28-2012 11:11 AM
I think this is authentic but I would like a second opinion about John H. Glenn's souvenir stamp block. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-28-2012 01:47 PM
Another Sieger item, part of a set, with this one having a genuine Glenn signature. |
alexbaja
Member Posts: 448
From: Naxxar, Malta
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 07-20-2012 04:56 AM
I have recently purchased four sieger Stamps with their respective so called certificates. They are of Swigert, Roosa, Lovell and Mitchel.My question is that all my set is in Blue ink but these last four I purchased are all in black pen. Also my set has it's certificates on thin stock paper whilst the four I bought are all in thick stock paper. Can anybody explain the difference between these lots? Was there a second run of signatures? |
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