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Topic: MA-6 USS Noa Cover with PM Time Slug
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Ross
Member Posts: 348
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-09-2013 07:10 AM
   
 The above classic MA-6 USS Noa cover (John Glenn's recovery ship) sold on eBay for an amazing $1482.55! This may be a record for this cover. The market may be starting to recognise how rare this cover really is. Depending on your view, this cover may be the rarest of all the US Manned Primary Recovery Ship covers (the USS Noa was a Secondary Recovery Ship but actually recovered John Glenn). As readers of another collectSPACE message thread will know this is one of a number of classic Recovery Ship covers which have brought amazing prices on eBay during the last two weeks. The following are the best examples. - MR-3 USS Lake Champlain (less than perfect example) sold for $2482.55!
- MR-4 USS Randolph Helicopter Recovery cover sold for $1336!
- MA-6 USS Randolph Helicopter Recovery cover also signed by John Glenn sold for $1475!
- A second MA-6 USS Randolph Helicopter Recovery cover sold for $821.
Lesser Recovery Ship covers, while not bringing the spectacular prices of the classic covers, are bringing sold prices as long as they are signed, scarce or have an unusual cachet. |
stevedd841
Member Posts: 145
From: millersville, maryland, usa
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 03-09-2013 08:38 AM
 Above is my John Glenn USS Noa PM time slug recovery ship cover to the same person, Mrs. Trudy Woods. I understand that this may be an alternate addressee for space cover collector, Robert Schoendorf, of Glendale, Long Island, New York. Does anyone know this for sure? Great USS Noa recovery ship cover in the continuing discussion for USS Noa's recovery of Glenn. Many thanks for showing it. |
Ross
Member Posts: 348
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-10-2013 07:20 AM
Does anyone else have a MA-6 USS Noa cover with the PM time slug? I would like to take an inventory to get an idea of how scarce this cover actually is.Thanks in advance. |
stevedd841
Member Posts: 145
From: millersville, maryland, usa
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 03-10-2013 01:56 PM
 David Ball, author of "American Astrophilately, the First Fifty Years," offers this John Glenn primary recovery ship cover for USS Noa with a PM time slug for February 20, 1962, from his collection. Great USS Noa cover, many thanks, David! |
Ross
Member Posts: 348
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-11-2013 07:17 AM
Eddie Bizub from Liberty Bell 7 Space Covers adds another USS Noa cover with PM time slug. Thanks Eddie. |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 182
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-11-2013 12:36 PM
I find it unusually odd that all 4 covers shown in this post all have the same mailing address. Maybe she had a connection with the ships postoffice? |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 125
From: Charleston, SC USA
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 03-11-2013 02:31 PM
Trudy was one of two daughters (the other collected stamps) of consummate collector Robert Schoendorf. Robert had covers carried in captured V2 rockets at the end of WW II. He went on to be a world-class collector (dealer?) in both astro and polar philately. He would use Trudy as a shell requestor, particularly when there was a limit to the number of philatelic requests permitted. |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 399
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 03-13-2013 04:30 PM
In my collection I am showing a Glenn USS Noa cover addressed to V. Eismont. Rather than the Trudy Woods covers the stamp on the left upper side seems to originate from the ship's post office.Moreover, I have got two more Trudy Woods covers. Most of all Trudy Woods covers I like Steve's since it has an early John Glenn signature.  
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