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Topic: Mercury AstroChimp (Enos, Ham) mission patches
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dmash4077
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posted 06-30-2007 02:29 PM
   
I was wondering if anybody knows anything about a patch for "Enos The Chimp"? |
dtemple
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From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-30-2007 03:02 PM
This patch I believe to have been produced by Randy Hunt. He sells a variety of reproduction patches as well as patches designed by him (or someone anyway) such as the "Banana 7" patch. This patch is no more official than any of the souvenir Mercury patches available today. If you like the patch, then you got a good deal. If you thought it was an original Project Mercury era patch, then you did not. Evidently, this patch is an example of one bought from him, then resold. Unfortunately, the information on the source of the patch was lost by the time it got to the eBay seller from whom you bought it. That is going to happen with Hunt's reproduction patches, too. I know because I have seen them offered by secondary owners who knew nothing about the patches. |
dmash4077
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posted 06-30-2007 03:17 PM
Thanks! I just like the patch, I didn't think that it was Mercury era. I had just never seen it before... Good addition then. Thanks for the info. |
Gator
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posted 06-30-2007 03:55 PM
Just to clarify one point on the Mercury 5 patch. I originally had it made just because there was no patch for Enos out there. The person selling them now on eBay didn't get them from me. To my knowledge he or someone else has had them remade and are selling them now. |
butch wilks
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From: Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-01-2007 10:05 AM
As a side note to the Enos the chimp patch, I have a Mercury 2 "Ham the Chimp" patch that that I got off Randy. The two patches make a good looking pair. |
perineau
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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-17-2012 06:25 AM
Does anyone have a photo of a Mercury-Redstone 2 "Ham the Chimp" patch? I heard it exists, but... (continuing my ongoing curiosity for oddball patches). Thanks for any help!Editor's note: Threads merged. |
The Snork
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From: Torrance, CA USA
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 11-17-2012 11:56 AM
Since the first official patch (that wasn't a flag, meatball, or Name tag) was Gemini 5. Any thing prior to that is probably just a souvenir patch like this: |
perineau
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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-18-2012 02:29 AM
Thanks for posting that - I didn't know an "Enos" patch existed as well |
perineau
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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 05-01-2013 12:05 PM
Does anyone have a scan of the Mercury MR-2 Ham the Chimp patch? (I don't make or sell patches, it's for a history project on humor and the space program). Any help would be most appreciated! |
Liembo
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From: Bothell, WA, USA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 05-01-2013 01:39 PM
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Originally posted by The Snork:
...probably just a souvenir patch like this
That version is much better than this remake version, which looks more like "ZOMBIE 7". |
perineau
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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 05-02-2013 08:17 AM
Thanks for posting that, but it was the Ham the chimp Mercury 2 patch that I was asking about... |
dogcrew5369
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From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 05-06-2013 10:10 AM
Good grief! Terrible chimp on that patch. Looks like Boris Karloff instead of Enos. Creepiest patch I've ever seen. |
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