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mwr1701
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posted 01-22-2015 07:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mwr1701   Click Here to Email mwr1701     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've been searching to buy an astronaut corps pin for my collection (silver or gold, doesn't matter).

I know there are some not so good reproductions out there, I ideally want the real thing. Please email if you have one available.

p51
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posted 01-22-2015 01:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have any of these even gotten into collector hands? That would seem like the very last thing an astronaut would sell or give to someone...

Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-22-2015 01:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In 2006, Regency-Superior offered Ed White's silver pin.

In 2010, Bonhams offered Deke Slayton's diamond-set gold pin presented to him by the Apollo 1 crew and flown on Apollo 11.

And our own SkyMan1958 has Dick Gordon's silver pin.

Blackarrow
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posted 01-22-2015 08:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Blackarrow     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I assume the gold pins would be very important to living astronauts, but not necessarily their silver pins. Al Bean threw his away!

Lou Chinal
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posted 01-23-2015 02:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, all you have to do is go to the moon to get it.

lspooz
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posted 01-23-2015 04:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lspooz   Click Here to Email lspooz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, with the next generation LRO and enough processing power, we SHOULD be able to find that pin...

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