posted 04-09-2017 08:04 AM               

Space Cover #412: GT-12 Proof Captain's Cover

Above is a Captain's cover for the Gemini 12 mission. You've all seen these — not a necessarily difficult cover to find but it does take some hunting and a little luck.

But have you ever seen a proof of this cover? Ben Ramkissoon had one in his main exhibit. When I learned that he was going to sell off his holdings, I sent him an email asking if he would consider selling it to me. But I suppose that my email got to him too late.

Two years ago at a stamp show, I ran across one, very possibly the same one at a dealer's booth. He priced it for a normal GT-12 Captain's cover and didn't notice that the names of the astronauts were typed in, not printed as in the above cover. Since it was a proof, it was created before the actual coordinates of the splashdown were known and so those are omitted. Finally, the actual date of the splashdown is a rubber stamp. I don't have any idea as to whether there were two or three or more of these, but it's possible that I ended up with Ben's GT-12 Proof Captain's Cover after all.

posted 04-09-2017 04:56 PM               

As discussed by email some years ago, you know that I have another of these Proof Captain Covers for GT-12 mission. Here the image: