posted 11-22-2016 01:10 PM               

$7995 inc. DHL shipping.

posted 11-22-2016 07:08 PM               

I could be mistaken, but I am not aware of any insurance covers for Apollo 11 being cancelled in Florida.

There was a shoe box full of covers that were stolen from the crew quarters before the launch, so I suppose it is possible that some of them could have been franked and cancelled at the launch site. They would not then be insurance covers, but they would still be interesting.

posted 11-22-2016 08:03 PM               

Only the MSCSC-cachet variety were posted from Houston during the first manned lunar landing/moonwalk(s) on July 20, 1969.

The insurance cover depicted here, with an added C76 postage stamp was cancelled for Apollo 11's 5th anniversary at KSC/Orlando in 1974, was actually handled and postmarked by myself.

posted 11-22-2016 08:17 PM               

This is a full set of pre-launch signed Dow covers from Apollo 8 to 17 with the Apollo 7 added at a later date to complete the collection.

My Apollo 11 cover is also postmarked KSC on July 16, 1969 and also Titusville on July 20th.

posted 11-23-2016 05:02 PM               

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Originally posted by Chuckster01:
...these are as close as it comes being signed in crew quarters just before each flight.

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The big difference, though, between the Heritage and MSCSC/Bishop cachet covers are their production numbers used by the crewmen. Only a few pre-launch signed crew covers by Heritage are known, but of course, with much larger quantities by MSCSC and the Bishop insignia covers.

Another major question would be; Were any pre-launch crew signed Heritage covers retained by the astronaut families and close friends for such "insurance policy" considerations?

And just for the record, in clarification purposes, there was only one Dow-produced "Project Apollo" cover and it was used for Apollo 11. In fact, the Dow Unicover
cachets for Apollo 11, designed by Don Wiles, were produced and owned by the commercial Fleetwood first day cover manufacturer.

Many of the Heritage cachet covers were dropped off at KSC crew quarters by Dave Ouellette, with the help of Hal Collins, within a couple or so weeks before an Apollo launch at Kennedy.

It was agreed that the crewmen would keep a certain amount of them, for their own uses, and autograph a few of the covers (usually about ten or so) to be divided up between the Heritage covers' owner Ouellette and graphic designer Wiles.

In addition, though, some of the Heritage covers, unstamped of course, found their way into astronaut office personnel collections, besides the Apollo astronauts themselves.

On a personal note, though, I think the Heritage designed cachets are some of the best of all the Apollo cachet covers I have seen and collected for almost half-a-
century now. The Heritage team always used the best quality rag content envelopes for their top notch one to two color print productions. Inside each cover was also a well-designed (by Wiles again) one-sided mission highlight printed insert card.

posted 11-24-2016 07:13 AM               

When the Dow and insignia covers were obtained at crew quarters, also before Apollo 11's launch to the moon, it was my understanding that Aldrin and Collins, with signing so many covers, changed their style a bit with "MCollins" and Aldrin with the underlines, but why the underscore, I do not know since Aldrin would be adding more to his older style version instead of less.

When it was time to select the covers to be flown, of course, all three cachet cover types were chosen with batches of the original MSCSC, Dow, and crew patch insignia.