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trilidar
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From: Indianapolis, IN USA
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posted 09-12-2014 12:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trilidar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looking to buy a flown Snoopy pin. Would prefer Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 through 17 (special love for Apollo 16, since I already own a few pieces).

Must possess impeccable provenance/chain-of-custody. Much thanks.

Larry McGlynn
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posted 09-12-2014 10:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Larry McGlynn   Click Here to Email Larry McGlynn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would suggest that you look at the public auctions for any Snoopy pins. There aren't that many flown Snoopy pins from the Apollo missions. Based on my discussions with all the Apollo astronauts still with us, there were very few flown on each mission.
  • Dave Scott told me that he was with Wally Schirra handing out Snoopy award pins for Apollo 7. He told me that none of them were flown. Walt Cunningham told me that there were only three Snoopy pins carried on Apollo 7.
  • Lovell told me that five were carried on Apollo 8 and Anders confirmed that number.
  • McDivitt and Scott in further discussions and after some extra research said they estimated that about forty five Snoopy pins were carried on Apollo 9.
  • Stafford and Cernan looking at their information and will get back to me on a better number of pins that that the crew carried on Apollo 10.
  • Buzz and Collins don't think there were any on their mission.
  • Gordon and Bean carried three pins according to their files.
  • Haise said Apollo 13 carried about 51 Snoopy pins between he and Lovell. That was by far the most carried in any one mission.
  • Mitchell doesn't have any Snoopy pins. He doesn't think any were carried on the mission.
  • Scott said that three Snoopy pins were carried on Apollo 15. That was when I asked him about the Snoopy pins he and Wally gave out. He said that none of those were flown and they gave out several of them post mission on Apollo 7.
  • Duke indicated that one Snoopy pin had flown during Apollo 16.
  • Cernan said that the regs were so tight on Apollo 17 and could not remember, off the top of his head, any flying on Apollo 17.
Based on all that, I have come up with a count of 115 Snoopy pins carried on all Apollo missions from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17. There may be more pins because of the lack of information from Apollo 11 and Apollo 17, but if one was to interpolate the numbers carried based on the all the missions, then the number might jump to a tad more than 120 Snoopy pins in total flown on the Apollo missions.

It is still not a lot.

spaced out
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posted 09-13-2014 12:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaced out   Click Here to Email spaced out     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Larry's post above is certainly very interesting. I'm re-posting it on the Silver Snoopy thread in the Hardware & Flown Items board.

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