posted 10-17-2007 06:02 PM               

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Skinner, one of the nation's leading auction houses, will hold an auction of Science & Technology on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 10 a.m. at its Bolton [Mass.] gallery located at 357 Main Street. Skinner is one of the few auction houses in the world, and the only major auction house in the U.S., to offer sales focused on Science and Technology.

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For collectors of NASA space memorabilia, bidders will fancy a Mercury 7 astronaut’s test glove (lot 193B, est. $12/15,000) featuring pen inscriptions Glenn and Schirra; a Project Gemini space flight capsule floatation ball (lot 193C, est. $1/1,500) referred to on its tag as “Unsinkable Molly Brown”; and a N.A.S.A. final Apollo 11 flight plan (lot 193D, est. $10/15,000) inscribed to “Arlene” and signed in person by the astronauts Buzz Aldren [sic], Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and eighteen others. For camera collectors a Leica M2 No. 1017843, chrome, (lot 338, est. $6/800) is expected to draw significant interest.

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