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Topic: Kansas Cosmosphere Liberty Bell 7 artifact acrylics
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Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-17-2001 04:53 PM
   
I received my acrylic today and I have no problem with it at all. It's a nicely done piece. I have no problem with the numbering either. I got number 37. I think it's well worth the money. I like the yesterday/today feel of the pictures, too. I think the Cosmosphere did a nice job on this acrylic too. |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-17-2001 05:03 PM
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Originally posted by astronut:
As to the new piece, I didn't order one. One reason is that it was not a piece of the spacecraft but an item carried in it.
Wayne, so was Gus Grissom.  quote:
Plus I had a $400 Liberty Bell 7 acrylic.
As do I, in addition to a $150 and a $250 acrylic. If you don't want a new acrylic, that's fine but I would beg you to reconsider your thinking. The film was THERE. It was there to document a moment in history. It IS history. There are lots of things, many documented right here on this website that were not an actual PART of a spacecraft but made the trip. Indeed, I doubt that this website or this hobby would exist but for those little bits and pieces that made the trip that none of us could. |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-17-2001 05:35 PM
I in no way intended to slight the film acrylics, they just weren't for me. Now a Liberty Bell 7 flown dime also wasn't part of the spacecraft, but I'd dearly love to have one of those. It's just a matter of personal tastes, we all value things differently. |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-17-2001 06:29 PM
You sort of made my point when you mentioned the dimes. To me, they are basically the same thing as the film with the exception being that film was more an integral part of the space craft than the dimes.If the acrylics weren't for you, that's cool. I just didn't want you to miss out if you thought that the film wasn't actually a "part" of the space craft. I'm just hoping that someone somewhere had some left over bits of a Gemini spacecraft and throws them in an acrylic. It would complete my collection. I've seen bits of heat shield in acrylic going for big bucks at auction. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-18-2001 09:40 PM
I got #38 and #39. Both acrylics look fine to me and are a nice piece of history. I am totally pleased with them. |
OPOS
Member Posts: 200
From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-20-2001 08:19 AM
I must concur with the many that are pleased with the latest Liberty Bell 7 offering. I found both pictures straight, with a nice strip of film. |
lewarren
Member Posts: 269
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 08-21-2001 06:52 PM
I agree that the piece is of less quality than the Liberty Bell spacecraft pieces.
But I like it anyways. |
Andy McCulley
Member Posts: 245
From: Lansdale, PA
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-22-2001 08:05 AM
I just received my Liberty Bell 7 filmstrip acrylic, #144 of 1000. I don't have the frame of reference of previous releases or the experience that many of you appear to have, but I like the thing. The pictures are slightly skewed, but the overall appearance is, in my opinion, very nice. I think that the subject matter compensates, to a certain degree, for the slight imperfections left from the manufacturing process. |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-22-2001 10:21 AM
In the light of "scewed" pics in the acrylics some are mentioning, I went to look at my $400 Liberty Bell 7 piece. Low and behold the Mercury capsule with the info on it is slightly scewed... just a couple of degrees. I never would have noticed it without this thread, but it doesn't bother me. Heck as some will tell you I'm kinda scewed in the head anyway. Kind of evens things out! |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-22-2001 12:21 PM
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Originally posted by astronut:
Heck as some will tell ya I'm kinda scewed in the head anyway.
That is basically what my sister said when I told her I bought an old screw for $150. |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-22-2001 05:16 PM
Just a thought... this may have been unintentional to this extent on the part of the Cosmosphere but if you look at the new acrylic you can see this. The picture on the left records what happened BEFORE the flight in that Gus climbed in to the capsule just moments later... the filmstrip in the center records what happened DURING the flight and the picture on the right records AFTER.Is it just me? |
Robert Grissom
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posted 09-17-2001 06:39 AM
I am perfectly satisfied with the new acrylic. The quality is excellent. |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-17-2001 12:30 PM
It's a nice piece. Now if the Cosmosphere would restore a Gemini spacecraft and put some of those parts in acrylics, I would be a happy man! |
tosvold
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posted 09-23-2001 02:47 PM
Cosmosphere has some of the original Liberty Bell 7 larges left (the description says "pieces like the heatshield assembly".Does anyone know what those look like? Is it a jagged piece of metal, or is it an entire component. I'm interested in getting one, but not sure if a lucite encased hunk of steel is nice. |
skye12
Member Posts: 49
From: Austin, TX, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 10-12-2001 01:43 PM
I'd be interested in what's left myself. The website seems to indicate there are some left... |
mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 12-12-2005 06:40 PM
I wonder if anyone at the Cosmosphere took the time to take photos of all the finished Liberty Bell lucites? I wonder how many different kinds of pieces there are? It seems like not a month goes by that one comes on the market with a piece in it that I've never seen before. |
BrianB
Member Posts: 118
From: Kamloops BC Canada
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 12-12-2005 07:45 PM
Why don't all us collectSPACErs post photos of what we have? Between us, we must have ownership of a good percentage of these lucites. I'll dig mine up and post some photos in the next day or so. Anyone else? |
Tomy1
Member Posts: 179
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-13-2005 07:23 AM
Here is a reply I received from the Cosmosphere when I inquired about the production run: In answer to your questions on the Liberty Bell 7 acrylics. How many of the items have been made available? It is as follows:$150 -- 750 items
$250 -- 50 items
$400 -- 100 items. There is not an unlimited supply to meet all demand. I am very happy you received yours and are happy with it. It is quite a thrill to own a piece of history! Thank you so much for your order. |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 12-13-2005 08:21 AM
I got one of the $250 pieces, and I always felt the object I got was the most unique one I had seen... it was not a typical screw or nut nor was it something sliced off another component.I'm not sure what to call it, but it appears to be a brass fitting that would be used to attach two pipes together. It is about an inch long and 3/4 in diameter. To me it was the perfect single object and the only one I've seen, so I never considered trading for another one. |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-13-2005 12:17 PM
I too got one of the $250 lucites (all the good $150 ones were sold, so I had to bite the bullet)... Mine was one of the circuit breaker fuses. I like to think that the piece I got served an actual function during the entire flight, regulating the electricity load for the spacecraft, as opposed to just holding a panel in place. (Pic pending) I never thought so few of the $250s were made... I guess I made a good call in upgrading, as I would never trade or sell mine either. |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-13-2005 07:47 PM
I had one of each price group but eventually sold the $150 (a small nut) and the $250 (some type of clamp) pieces. I kept the $400 piece which is a piece of the landing bag assembly. |
p.kentzinger
Member Posts: 95
From: Kienheim, France
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-13-2006 01:54 PM
I had one of each size: small - bolt with a nut; medium - fuse; and large - connector.I always try to buy others. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 02-08-2007 04:55 PM
I seem to recall a post on collectSPACE some months ago that intimated Kansas Cosmpsphere were considering another Liberty Bell presentation; something along similar lines to the flown artifact lucites maybe. Has anybody heard anything more to substantiate that rumour? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-08-2007 04:59 PM
I spoke with the Cosmosphere last fall and they said then that despite the earlier report, they did not have plans to create a new acrylic with Liberty Bell 7 components. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 02-08-2007 05:02 PM
Shame. |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 02-08-2007 05:40 PM
A shame indeed, I was looking forward to it. It sounds more like a cancelled plan than a bogus story, as otherwise I'm not sure why I would have received that reply. |
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