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Topic: STS-51E / Challenger canceled mission patch
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Member Posts: 2558
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-24-2009 02:54 PM
   
One of the 'holy grails' of the Shuttle patches must surely be the STS-51E patch with a Baudry-only tab. Well, I've not found one of those, but I did get one step closer...As most of you probably know both AB Emblem and Swissartex produced versions of the STS-51E patch which incorporated a Baudry-only tab in a one-piece cut-edge patch. When Senator Garn was added to the crew a month before the scheduled lift-off these patches needed to be re-made. Both companies went for the option of trimming away the Baudry tab by hand and then attaching a separate Baudry/Garn name tab to the patch body. Most examples of AB Emblem's resulting patch still show some traces of the original tab where the pale blue border joined the main patch body at the first "D" of Seddon and the "S" of Griggs. Swissartex apparently decided to try to hide these traces by adding a thick blue merrowed edge around the entire patch body, with a matching border on the sewn-on tab, as shown in the example below.  While I've never seen an example of an original Baudry-only patch, recently I did manage to acquire an example of the Swissartex patch that has not had this merrowed border applied, as shown below.  This allows you to get an idea of the way their STS-51E patch originally looked, complete with the traces of the trimmed-away Baudry-only name tab. It was actually quite a nice version of the patch before the thick blue border was applied. |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1294
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-26-2009 11:32 AM
About three weeks ago, someone on eBay sold a Baudry decal with the tab. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 03-26-2009 01:18 PM
Yes, I won it on Wednesday 11th March. It was one of a set of three Challenger mission decals. Lot No. 370168356223. All three decals were in mint condition. Only one other bidder for this lot. |
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Member Posts: 2558
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-26-2009 05:40 PM
The decals are not that uncommon to be honest, although still nice to have. |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1294
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-27-2009 01:04 AM
Ha ha, I was the other bidder. Thought nobody was else was interested. What was the high price you were willing to pay? |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 03-27-2009 02:48 AM
I've not seen another one of these 'Baudry Only' decals for sale on eBay or anywhere else for a long time, (years), so when I saw this I placed it on my 'watch list'. I was quite surprised to win this set of three decals for $26 with only one other bidder. I was expecting a few more bids from other collectors in the last few seconds of the sale. (My maximum was $35.55.) |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 391
From: Bethesda, MD
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-27-2009 08:34 AM
I have a period patch with the Baudry-only tab that Chris mentioned to start this thread, which I believe was made by Swissartex. |
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From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-27-2009 10:42 AM
With John's permission I'll maybe post a picture of his patch later.It's certainly got an intact Baudry-only tab but I was suprised to see that it had the thick blue border added around the whole thing. Maybe they intended their patch to look that way, but I always thought they added that border to the trimmed body in order to cover the traces of the cut, then added a matching border to the new tab. Why they would want to add the same border to an intact Baudry-only tab is a mystery. My only suspicion is that perhaps this was done after the Baudry-Garn tab version was released. At the time of the cancellation of the mission maybe they were left with some un-cut Baudry-only patches as well as the stock they'd already converted into Baudry-Garns. The only value of either set of patches was as souvenirs of a cancelled mission so perhaps they finished-off any remaining Baudry-only patches with a border to match the Baudry-Garns and then sold them off too. All just idle speculation of course.  |
SPACEFACTS
Member Posts: 151
From: Germany
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 03-27-2009 11:44 AM
The official NASA artwork of the Baudry-only patch. |
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From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-27-2009 01:52 PM
Here's John Bisney Swissartex example: |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1294
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-07-2012 10:04 AM
I was high bidder ($26) for a Baudry tab decal among 10 other shuttle decals recently. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 04-07-2012 11:53 AM
Yes these decals don't come up very often. It was part of lot No. 160748726348, and I was the guy you beat into second place with your bid of $26.55. There was one other bidder, who placed three lower bids. There was five bids in total. |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1294
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-11-2012 02:05 PM
I see you were bidding on a second patch. I learned my lession and bid high for it. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 04-04-2013 06:19 AM
A second example of this ultra rare Swissartex STS-51E 'Baudry' only patch, identical to the one John Bisney has (see the above image), has been found in amongst a mixed lot of 13 other mainly shuttle patches from various manufacturers, listed on the French eBay website. This lot of 14 patches had been listed at least three times since mid December last year, but was only picked up by myself on March 28th. This lot of 14 patches was with Chris Spain, as he helped me to secure this lot of patches, as the seller did not speak or understand English, and would not ship outside of France. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 04-10-2013 08:48 AM
The second recorded example of this ultra rare Swissartex STS-51E 'Baudry' only patch has now arrived safely here in the United Kingdom (along with the other 13 mixed mainly shuttle patches).An image of the back of this one piece patch, and the front of John Bisney's example can now be seen on the crewpatches website. |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1294
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-11-2013 01:10 PM
Yellow with envy you have one. When are you going to sell it? |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 444
From: High Wycombe, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 04-11-2013 02:39 PM
Not very soon I'm afraid, it's taken me years to find this one. Sorry. |
monkeyman3061
New Member Posts: 1
From: Edwards California USA
Registered: Apr 2013
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posted 04-22-2013 03:16 AM
I worked on the program for over 25 years and I found in my collection of space shuttle memories, I have a one-of-a-kind Launch Team Pin of 51E Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, Hoffman with flag insignia and Baudry name.I believe it may be the only design pin (if anyone can give me more history it would greatly be appreciated (Thank you brother for the gift and he worked the program from the testbed Enterprise). I have never seen another one of these ever. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 2001
From: Toms River, NJ,USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-22-2013 09:29 AM
Had - emphasis on had - a 41F pin with 'launch team' on back. This was when it was just the five NASA astronauts, no PSs. |
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