posted 03-20-2024 11:43 AM
Really very difficult to know if final price for this cover is a real price or an inflated price.In our hobby, in addition to offer and demand, there are other factors that can influence in the price as, for example, when two strong bidders want the same cover.
All of us have at some point overpaid for a cover of our interest just because we wanted to have it.
In any case this GT-3 cover on stationary ship is a TOP item in astrophilatelic world.
If we had to show with just one cover the recovery of GT-3 probably many of us would choose this cover.
And this is exactly what exhibitors are doing constantly: choosing one cover per launch and one cover per recovery.
This could be a ranking of space covers related to recovery ships (always with reference to Prime Recovery Ship):
- Captain Cover (if exist)
- Cover on ship stationary
- Unnumbered Beck printed cover
- Beck printed cover
- Rubber stamp cachet (designed also by M. Beck)
Please, note that order above is from a personal opinion. Nothing is written about it.
Of course there are other kind of recovery covers: CINPACs, frogmen...and especially this order can be altered if the cover is signed by astronauts, if show additional marks, if is addressed to VIP...
But remember, in your exhibit page you have place only for two covers.
Top cover will reflect the launch and bottom cover will reflect the recovery.
Then, this GT-3 cover on ship stationary is a good election? If yes, how much are you willing to pay for this cover?
Back to the beginning. Really impossible to know if 740 USD is a surprising price, a real price or an inflated price.
posted 03-19-2024 04:34 PM
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