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Topic: FS: Vintage space covers and photos collection
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spaceflori
Member Posts: 1499
From: Germany
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-07-2016 12:45 PM
   
Have you ever asked what a million dollar collection looks like?Well, we just came across an estate of 172 large binders full of space covers and photos - collected by a wealthy German collector over approximately 30 years. He literally bought everything that was offered by dealers such as Sieger, Goede, Coelle, Fuchs, Gemsa and others in those days. Of course - most simple philatelic covers he had 5-10 times each are worth a fraction today of what he paid while the autographs certainly kept a certain value or increased like Armstrong or the Apollo 11 insurance covers. Based on old invoices he kept the total price he paid was indeed around one million... We have uploaded some 200 key items from that collection — though some already sold directly — don't forget to submit your wantlist, these are always served first! New in our shop: - Apollo 11 insurance cover + uninscribed crewsigned photo
- Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin multiple signed covers and photos
- STS-1 multiple signed photos and covers
- Fantastic Apollo 11 "A Kodak paper" 8x10 NASA glossies
- Apollo 16 official crewsigned presentation
- Apollo crewsigned covers
- Anatoly Levchenko signed TM-3 landing cover, 3rd rarest space autograph of all
- Apollo 15 crewsigned Captain cover
- Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe and STS-51 L signed items, Mike Smith ISP
- Alan Shepard signed recovery 8x10 glossy
- Wernher von Braun letter to Rudolf Nebel + signed portrait
- KNIGA covers
- Vladislav Volkov signed portrait
- Vladimir Komarov autographs
- Gagarin - Tereshkova - Leonov signed cover - all three "firsts"
- Rare Space Shuttle crews
- Lots of WSS signed photos incl. rare Shuttle astronauts in WSS
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spaceflori
Member Posts: 1499
From: Germany
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-07-2016 12:46 PM
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Chuckster01
Member Posts: 873
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 06-07-2016 04:10 PM
You list your Dow Apollo 11 cover as an insurance cover. Was it astronaut owned or is it an insurance type cover? I was under the impression that only covers from the astronauts collection and signed pre-flight could be considered insurance covers. Is it possible that this cover was signed after the flight? |
spaceflori
Member Posts: 1499
From: Germany
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-07-2016 10:51 PM
Most of these insurance covers distributed in Germany by Goede and Sieger + Coelle (who was a close friend of Matt Radnofsky, the inventor of them) do not bear any markings from whom they were acquired originally.This is a more recent development in the collectors market that astronauts started to inscribe the insurance covers. I know that Coelle worked with Michael Collins, so these are believed to come from him. All of them carry the distinctive color of the pens and were signed before the flight thus are insurance covers. |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 312
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 06-08-2016 07:40 AM
Some delicious material. I note an Apollo 15 crew signed envelope. Should we consider it a Captain's cover if it isn't postmarked on the ship? |
spaceflori
Member Posts: 1499
From: Germany
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-08-2016 07:57 AM
Good question David!I would compare it to the Apollo 17 insurance covers forgotten to be postmarked. The cover is definitely from the ship. |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 312
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 06-09-2016 03:58 PM
Oh no! Not the dreaded Apollo 17 Insurance covers.  |
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