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Topic: Apollo 15 hammer and feather cacheted cover
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Axman
Member Posts: 536
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 08-13-2024 07:52 AM
   
I have been searching very unsuccessfully for a philatelic cover with a cachet depicting the hammer and feather experiment performed on the moon by Apollo 15's Dave Scott on 2 August 1971.Do they exist? Has anybody ever seen such a cover? Does anybody have one in their collection? If so, images please. |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 845
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 08-13-2024 10:55 AM
Alan, if you have a cover without cachet, which was postmarked in Houston on Aug. 2, 1972, you may create your cover. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3843
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 08-13-2024 11:59 AM
Still checking my own Apollo 15 covers, however, as Walter pointed out, I do have
some uncachet covers for Aug. 2, 1971 if they can be helpful. Most are first day issue related. |
Axman
Member Posts: 536
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 08-13-2024 12:28 PM
To be absolutely honest it never crossed my mind I could create my own. If you have an uncacheted cover you would be willing to part with that would be marvellous. I shall send an email.
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3843
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 08-15-2024 08:47 AM
I've got a few available Aug. 2, 1971, first day issue covers with no cachets. Most are with unofficial first day cancels at Cape Canaveral that contains a slogan cancel reading of "Anniversary of Man's First Walk on the Moon," Titusville / Astronaut Trail Station, and KSC on airmail envelopes with a Robert Boudwin address sticker label at bottom right. Most of the covers are clean and in great condition.I'll be happy to mail a a few of them to anyone interested at no charge. They will be mailed via USPS first class (international FC if overseas). After checking most all of my Apollo 15 cachet covers and first days, as Alan pointed out, I have not seen any specific cachets of the Aug. 2nd feather and hammer lunar surface experiment by Scott. I thought for sure there was a Solar Covers cachet commemorating the drop experiment and perhaps a Space Voyage cachet cover or by Space City Cover Society. The only SV-Rank cachet cover, it would appear for Aug 2, was the first live television of Falcon's liftoff to Earth by a RCA built camera. |
Axman
Member Posts: 536
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 08-15-2024 09:13 AM
Thanks Ken, email received and greatly appreciated. Also thanks for the research, I'm glad to know I didn't miss anything obvious.And I intend to add a hand drawn cachet to the envelope. I shall post it here when completed... |
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