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MrSpace86
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From: Gardner, KS
Registered: Feb 2003

posted 07-12-2023 07:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MrSpace86   Click Here to Email MrSpace86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I picked up this Apollo 13 flown flag and patch at a garage sale (yes, of all places) and it had heavy water damage.

The matte had some pretty bad dark marks on it so I removed the flag and patch from it and mounted it on my matte. I cut off the damaged/darkened part of the original matte and kept where it says that they were both flown. You can line up the flag and patch perfectly if you so choose.

The matte has a heavily faded Jim Lovell signature. The flag itself was signed by Lovell at an Astronaut Scholarship Foundation signing back in May 2011; The COA has a pic of him signing and holding the flag.

$8k or best offer shipped to anywhere in the USA. International would be extra. You will get the presentation I made, the original matte, and the COA (and two Lovell signatures - one from the 1970s, and one from the 2010s). Will send pics of it all upon request.

rgarner
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From: London, United Kingdom
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posted 07-13-2023 11:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for rgarner   Click Here to Email rgarner     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just something for future reference, water damage can be treated by a professional conservator for a few hundred dollars, regardless of how damaged it is. It is a shame the original mat was cut up, as it sounds like restoration would have been quite simple.

MrSpace86
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From: Gardner, KS
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posted 07-13-2023 12:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MrSpace86   Click Here to Email MrSpace86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At the time (about 20 years ago because I was still in college) mobile phones with a ton of storage space didn't exist so I didn't take a "before" pic. Honestly, knowing what I know about restoring paper items (my graded comic book arsenal is massive), there was no way to restore a crusted, dried up matte that has black and brown muck working it's way to the flag and patch. They would have removed the two anyways.

MrSpace86
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From: Gardner, KS
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posted 07-19-2023 02:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MrSpace86   Click Here to Email MrSpace86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Down to $6k or best offer. Would much rather deal with someone here than elsewhere on the internets. Let me know!

MrSpace86
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posted 08-15-2023 06:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MrSpace86   Click Here to Email MrSpace86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The flag and patch have now sold. Thank you!!

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