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Topic: Identifying Apollo 11 moon landing covers?
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Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 11-23-2014 01:03 PM
  
Here are a couple of covers which are a bit of a mystery.The top one was likely produced by someone on the Space Coast with the initials of DLF. The bottom one was maybe a philatelic society production?  |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-23-2014 01:18 PM
Top cover was a cachet production of former USPS worker (now deceased) Dave Finney of Cocoa/Rockledge, FL.Dave was one of the earlier Space Coast area cover servicers and cachet cover producers throughout the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo/Skylab program years. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 11-23-2014 02:41 PM
Thank you Ken! |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 11-23-2014 08:57 PM
Here are a couple more.Regarding the top one that cachet was likely from KSC and was "Cape Kennedy Toys" a space-related operation or a toy store that happened to be located at the Cape? The bottom one was once again a localized philatelic society special issue?  |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-24-2014 04:00 AM
Top cover is a very popular issue, actually, one of the best cachet covers to have for man's first lunar landing voyage. It was produced by the NASA Exchange Council at Kennedy Space Center, mainly for their on-base employee stores. The Apollo 11 crew itself acquired hundreds of the same issue for their personal uses (crew insurance cover #3 type) and with others actually making the rocket ride with the crew all the way to the moon and back! The second depicted cachet cover was from the Upper Miami Valley Stamp Club in Piqua, Ohio, as indicated on the cachet itself. The cachets were produced in two colors; red and blue, and were mostly used for Neil Armstrong hometown 1969 postal cancellations in Wapakoneta and other nearby locations throughout Ohio.
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