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billewald
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From: Stafford, VA, USA
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posted 02-22-2015 12:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for billewald   Click Here to Email billewald     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have an Apollo 15 cover that has a small round blue spot, which has the feel of plastic and is adhered to the cover. Inside the blue plastic spot are five small black dots?

Can anyone tell me what the significance of this spot is and does anyone know who might have initialed this cover? Thank you.

yeknom-ecaps
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From: Northville MI USA
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posted 02-22-2015 01:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The postal service used circles of that size and feel with letters and numbers in them related to movement of items within the postal system - have received some of my covers back with such circles added.

Have not seen any of them with symbols though.

No idea who or why it was signed.

4allmankind
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posted 02-22-2015 02:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 4allmankind   Click Here to Email 4allmankind     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I believe that is Rick Boos' signature, so it could be present to certify the black dots as being artifacts. This is a guess.

yeknom-ecaps
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posted 02-22-2015 02:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What kind of artifact might they be?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-22-2015 02:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by 4allmankind:
This is a guess.
Your guess is spot on (no pun intended). See this cached Swann Galleries lot of Rick Boos' prepared covers with similarly arranged heat shield fragments. Here's another example from Regency-Superior.

billewald
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posted 02-24-2015 07:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for billewald   Click Here to Email billewald     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for the responses!

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