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Topic: FS: AS-204 (Apollo 1) NASA blue cachet
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fairport4
Member Posts: 42
From: Bethesda, MD
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 07-11-2018 12:52 PM
   
For sale: The rarest of all manned spaceflight NASA cachets, Apollo 1.An AS-204 (Apollo 1) NASA blue rubber stamp cachet canceled on the evening of the tragic spacecraft fire. KSC, 27 January 1967. Asking $2000.  |
fairport4
Member Posts: 42
From: Bethesda, MD
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 11-24-2018 10:45 PM
Now asking $1500.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-24-2018 10:47 PM
The discussion here suggests the Kennedy Space Center post office was closed at the time of the fire and that the covers that were postmarked for Jan. 27, 1967 were backdated. |
fairport4
Member Posts: 42
From: Bethesda, MD
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 11-25-2018 07:44 PM
The book "The Relics of the Space Race" (2001) states that "the tragic AS-204 fire preempted the release of the official Apollo-I cachet. Forty covers were cancelled at KSC on the date of the fire 1/27/67 and had a 'First Three-Man Apollo Mission,' AS-204 cachet applied. Obviously, these are now very rare and expensive items." (see p. 257 of the 3rd edition, author Russell Still). |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-25-2018 10:27 PM
Russ's book is an excellent introduction to space collecting. Since it was last updated though, more has been learned about the topics it covered. I don't know where the subject of the Apollo 1 covers falls in this regard, but I would not assume because it is in "Relics" that the KSC postmarks were not backdated. |
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