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Topic: Lunar Legacies November 2011 auction
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lunarlegacies
Member Posts: 123
From: Merritt Island, FL
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 10-11-2011 05:10 PM
   
Auction lots are beginning to appear on the site for the November 19th Lunar Legacies auction. These lots appear on the site for previewing purposes only, and the auction will be uploaded to Proxibid on or about November 5th for bidding. I expect about 400 lots as usual and hope to see you there.Anyone wishing to consign items to the Nov. 19 auction, please contact me. Also, a heads up that I am currently doing a large update to the Lunar Legacies sales site - about 100 new items that will be appearing on the New Additions page today and tomorrow. Many are already there. Additionally, prices have been reduced for many of the items that were currently on the site, so please check those out as well if you wish. |
lunarlegacies
Member Posts: 123
From: Merritt Island, FL
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 11-01-2011 01:11 PM
The tenth Lunar Legacies Space Memorabilia auction is less than three weeks away on Saturday, November 19th at 1:00 PM EST and is now open for registration. The auction lots will be uploaded to Proxibid by November 6th for viewing and pre-bidding. For early previewing of the auction lots and for registration information, please go to lunarlegacies.com - the link to view the auction lots will be the top one on the left. Proxibid has changed their registration process in order to allow one registration for multiple auctions. The new registration process is outlined at the bottom of this post step-by-step, and will only have to be performed once initially to bid on all future auctions, if my understanding is correct. I registered as a bidder myself and the process is pretty straight forward. There are currently almost 300 items listed for the auction with about 100 more to go. Please contact me at lunarlegacies@gmail.com if you have any questions. I will have everything listed with all photos and descriptions within the next week. Some of the auction highlights include: - Many items from Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham's personal collection.
- Lunar Landing Training Vehicle Flight Manual
- Lunar Module, Command Module, Skylab and Shuttle hardware (coming soon).
- Neil Armstrong's lunar boots and gloves pre-flight x-rays, along with x-rays from many other astronauts (great for autographs)
- Lots of Apollo flight plans, press kits and manuals.
- Flown items and autographed crew photos.
And much more.Thanks again for your time and hope to see you there. Step-by-Step Registration - Login with your existing username and password, or Create an Account.
- Once logged in, go to proxibid.com (the home page) and find the Lunar Legacies auction by clicking on the "Companies" link under the BrowseAuctions heading. Click on the "L" and scroll down to find Lunar Legacies, then click on it.
- At the Lunar Legacies auction page, go down to the Current Auctions box and click on the "Click here to get pre-approved to bid" link.
- Once the new page comes up, click again on the "Click here to get pre-approved for this and other similar auctions" link at the top.
- Fill in the Profile information (there are two tabs).
- Go back to the Lunar Legacies auction page (see step 2).
- At the Lunar Legacies auction page, go down again to the Current Auctions box and click on the "Click here to get pre-approved to bid" link. A message will appear that you are approved to bid and you are done.
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lunarlegacies
Member Posts: 123
From: Merritt Island, FL
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 11-14-2011 08:50 AM
The 10th Lunar Legacies Space Memorabilia Auction is less than one week away on Saturday, November 19th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. EST.No Reserves! Also, I have added about 100-150 new lots that do not appear on the Lunar Legacies site, but only on Proxibid. For anyone wishing to submit mail-in bids or be added to a call list, please do so this week by emailing me. With mail-in bids and live phone bids you can avoid the extra 5% Proxibid fee. To make things a bit easier, please use the lot numbers as they appear on Proxibid, and not the item numbers I use on the Lunar Legacies website. All mail-in bids must be submitted before 12 noon EST on auction day. Please do not call me during the auction, because I cannot answer. I will be on the phone with Proxibid the entire time. Late additions include: - An infamous lunar surface Apollo 15 cover
- Walt Cunningham’s Apollo 7 flown LMP checklist page
- Several rare Apollo crew patches
- An Apollo 13 Permanent Firing Room access badge
- Many space shuttle flown items
...and much more.Thanks very much again and hope to see you there. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 11-19-2011 12:16 PM
Anyone else having trouble connecting live?UPDATE: Sorry, it was at my end. AVG anti-virus 'Surf-Shield' was blocking the app. |
JFS61
Member Posts: 101
From: Bryan, Texas USA
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 11-19-2011 12:18 PM
I can't get on either, Chris, so it's not just you. |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 11-19-2011 07:15 PM
So far, this has been the most fulfilling auction I've participated in... in that I actually got everything I intended to buy, and without losing any limbs.  Can't wait for the next one, hopefully I can afford to spend more. |
SpaceSteve
Member Posts: 428
From: San Antonio TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted 11-19-2011 08:51 PM
I won both items I was bidding on: the Apollo 10 cover signed by Tom Stafford, and the Apollo 14 crew-signed Bishop (Insurance?) cover.The one I can't understand is the Apollo 13 crew-signed insurance cover; it went for $2,750! After seeing that, I was really sweating going after the Apollo 14 cover. I ended up winning it for only $425! |
randyc
Member Posts: 779
From: Chandler, AZ USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 11-19-2011 09:16 PM
I was also surprised that the Apollo 13 'Bishop' cover sold for so much. I bought one on ebay a couple of years ago, that is in mint condition, for $425.Steve, although the Apollo 14 crew signed cover that you bought is a 'Bishop' cover it's cancelled on the moon landing, rather than the launch day. I'm not sure if that cover, if it was cancelled on the launch day, is more desirable and would sell for more, but you got it at a good price nonetheless. |
SpaceSteve
Member Posts: 428
From: San Antonio TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted 11-19-2011 09:29 PM
Randy, yea, I didn't even look at the postmark on the Apollo 14 cover until after I'd won it and was trying to figure out why it went so low, especially after what the Apollo 13 cover sold for.Still, I think I got it at a great price! |
MikeSpace
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posted 11-19-2011 10:08 PM
Won the one item I bid on, the 9"x10" NASA meatball beta cloth, at $130.00, I'm happy. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-19-2011 11:54 PM
Great auction. Won more than I expected. My best bargain was the Wernher Von Braun signed photo for only $190. That and the "Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Vol 4." |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-20-2011 05:38 AM
We had another great auction by Lunar Legacies. We picked up the Gemini heat shield section (appeared to be a full cross section). I thought it would be cool as a Gemini 11 section and was even more thrilled that it maybe in fact Gemini 2. That spacecraft was the first reusable as it flew twice with the second flight on the MOL test. We have an MOL full stack Titan III contractor’s model that we will display it with if it is fact Gemini 2. The best part is it was only $150! We won the six Apollo coloring books from 1969. With one two year old grand daughter (by the way, one of her first words were “Alan Bean”, and she knows the difference between a rocket and a space shuttle) and two more on the way, there is a lot of opportunity for coloring. Yep they may be vintage and not historic and if that gets them headed into space so be it, besides anyone can have a Smerf coloring book but how many kids get to color a LM? We picked up the LM Kapton Lucite. Just because we like Lucites and the going rate for one of those is about $250 on eBay and this went for $160. What we really were hoping to win was one of the boot or glove x-rays. We managed to obtain two, both being single boot pics. One is the Dick Gordon EVA boot as backup for Apollo 15. That should be a good one to have signed and an interesting conversational piece as well. The second is Jim Irwin’s boot. This is an x-ray of a boot worn on the moon and is there right now. How cool is that! I wanted to bid on the Young/Duke boots but the x-ray was so washed out, and we had the other two, I elected to let bidder have it and not drive up the price. It went for $110 and I thought that was a good deal for that x-ray. (The two we picked up were $220 and $260 respectively.) Our last item was the signed STS-122 crew photo, signed by seven astronauts. This is the flight that Jackie and I saw on our honeymoon so it is very special to us. Also, at $140 that is only $20 a signature, based on the last ASF signing fees that is a very good deal. My only regret is not bidding on the LRV contractor’s model. I had missed that one in the review of the lots and was not prepared to bid so when it opened at $450 I did not know anything about it, scale, detail, etc. Looks like it was a good win for the high bidder, congratulations to you and for all those who won their lots. The Lunar Legacies auctions are without a doubt is my favorites, keep them coming Donnis, thanks! |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 11-20-2011 05:46 AM
I still can't believe I got a ~24x45 inch piece of payload bay liner for only $70.50 (which includes fees). A few months ago, I bought a 3.25x3.25 inch piece from the same mission (I wouldn't be surprised if they came from the same source) for $45, which was very cheap compared to the others I had offered to me. Going by that price per square inch, this piece would be would $4600. Or going by the average value of payload bay liner bookmarks, $12,000. Though of course, that's totally unrealistic.What I didn't understand though is why is the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Operation's Plan worth so much? It's a document you can find freely available on NASA's tech report server and main website, and I imagine plenty of them were printed. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-20-2011 07:24 AM
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Originally posted by Spaceguy5:
I still can't believe I got a ~24x45 inch piece of payload bay liner for only $70.50 (which includes fees).
I am so glad that went to fellow cSer. I saw that and planned on bidding, unfortunately I had a call from work and stepped away, when I came back and saw that final bid my jaw dropped. I feel much better now, good for you!As far as document pricing, I am like you, I never really understand why a copy of a document from that era go for such high prices (typically it is a copy as the original with the original sign off signatures are archived). |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-20-2011 12:00 PM
I had intended to bid on that item but turned away for a couple of minutes and it was gone. Congrats on a nice piece at a great price.On a lighter note, I have to thank my cat for purchasing an early presentation wooden shuttle model. I had not intended to bid on it and it was on my screen when my cat decided to walk across my keyboard, placing a bid on it for me. I kept waiting for someone else to bid on it as it was only $25, but I (my cat) ended up winning it. I now have my first model. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 11-20-2011 12:16 PM
I imagine you kept your cat well away from the keyboard when the Apollo 15 flown cover came round at $12,500!  |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 11-20-2011 01:32 PM
Hah, I considered bidding on that model but decided I was already spending too much. I remember in the May auction, my laptop's mouse malfunctioned and clicked Bid on a piece of an oscilloscope, which I ended up winning a second later. I was very happy that it was at least cheap. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-20-2011 02:25 PM
I think I had minimized the screen when that cover came up so I would be sure not have an accident! Cat or otherwise. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-20-2011 02:58 PM
I pulled my cursor far away an crossed my arms so as not to touch the key board.Fred, I thought I was a space geek but I have no pets that bid in space auctions. That has to be post in the "You might be a Space Geek if..." thread. |
Kevin
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posted 11-20-2011 03:36 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the x-ray boots and or gloves. I really wanted to get one of these items. By the time these items rolled around I hit the bid button a few times however I had to back away as I had already reached my spending limit on a few other itmes I was lucky enough to win. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-21-2011 04:37 PM
Could someone please explain to me what on earth is the significance of those X-rays of various spacesuit parts? I must confess this trend leaves me cold, and utterly baffled. Why would a space enthusiast want an x-ray of Buzz Aldrin's EVA gloves, or something similar? It's just an X-ray for pete's sake... |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-21-2011 04:54 PM
Artistic merit might be one... like any rare/unique subject portrayal this could appeal not only to collectors of space but also fine arts (Digital Xray's are all the rage now supplanting X-Ray film; with images depicting non biologic items these films can be a pretty good investment) |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 11-21-2011 08:15 PM
Really, there's a lot of space memorabilia that shouldn't have any use for anyone who isn't an engineer (for example, documents, reports, manuals, and actual hardware). However they're still interesting items to own, regardless of having no actual use (though personally, I do plan on using some of my hardware for educational purposes to teach about engineering and the technology behind spaceflight). |
NJSPACEFAN
Member Posts: 128
From: Ocala, FL USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 11-21-2011 11:12 PM
I had previously seen a copy of the Armstrong boot x-ray in the oversized book "Moonfire" by Norman Mailer - pg. 174. They took the x-rays to ensure that there were no pins or needle points accidentally left in the apparel that could puncture the pressure suite while on the moon. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-22-2011 07:05 AM
CAT scanned (Meeoow!): |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 11-22-2011 08:34 AM
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Originally posted by fredtrav:
I had not intended to bid on it and it was on my screen when my cat decided to walk across my keyboard, placing a bid on it for me.
Fred, you should know that the cat would be somewhere near the "mouse"!  |
Jurvetson
Member Posts: 93
From: Los Altos an SF, CA, United States
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-27-2011 03:26 PM
I was delighted to win the Armstrong boot x-ray. I had to be on a plane at the time of auction, and my proxy bid barely made it. As for collectibility, for me, I like the stories of artifacts and evocative images of some items, like these boots and the Apollo 14 landing site plate form the simulator. Both are like modern art, but much cooler. With a bit of image processing, the iconic boot prints are quite visible. And then I read a fun Apollo 11 passage on the plane ride home from How Apollo Flew to the Moon, 2011, p.307. In the view of the public, the defining moment of the event would be when a human footprint deformed the lunar dust. This would have a human dimension; there would be a personal link to the hearts of all people who left footprints on Earth and a sense of the frailty of a mere human stepping out on a hostile alien world. Thanks Scott for the pointer to that book and the CAT scan!Does anyone have tips on x-ray film preservation, display (light box suggestions), and high-res digitization (flatbed scanner tricks)? |
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