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Topic: WTB: SpaceCraft/Mercury; "Orbit"/Gemini covers
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Bob M
Member Posts: 1887
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-07-2023 09:22 AM
   
To have my Mercury-Gemini-Apollo-Shuttle launch cover collection consistent and uniform, I need the following unaddressed launch covers:Swanson/SpaceCraft launch covers: - MA-7/Carpenter
- MA-8/Schirra
- MA-9/Cooper
Ronson "Orbit" launch covers: Hand stamp cancels preferred. After acquiring the four Gemini-Titan "Orbit" launch covers I need, I will have available GT-9, 10, 11 and 12 official NASA/KSC launch covers to trade or sell. Thanks. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1734
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 12-07-2023 08:23 PM
Bob, I have duplicates of the Gemini 10, 11, and 12 Orbits, unaddressed and not plugged 9's. Will send them to you gratis. |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 254
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 12-08-2023 01:18 AM
I may have an extra GT-9 for you Bob. I will check the cover boxes and let you know. |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1887
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-08-2023 06:51 AM
Thanks, guys, you are too kind.Now with the GT-9,-10,-11 and -12 "Orbit" covers replacing my official NASA/KSC covers for those four flights, the four ONC's will be expendable and available (of course, Dennis and Tim, if you need any of them, they are yours free). Otherwise, they are available for sale or trade. They are unaddressed and in excellent condition, with the GT-9 having a Stafford autopen. |
Axman
Member Posts: 280
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 12-08-2023 09:41 AM
Can I ask a few possibly naive questions here please?In your original posting Bob, you described them as Ronson "Orbit" covers. Are these 'just' Orbit covers, or are they special in some way? Is Ronson for Orbit similar to Swanson for SpaceCraft? And who is Ronson? |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1432
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 12-08-2023 10:22 AM
I saw an MA-8 SpaceCraft cachet cover listed unaddressed, with a hand cancel, at here. |
yeknom-ecaps
Member Posts: 851
From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 12-08-2023 01:10 PM
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Originally posted by Axman:
Is Ronson for Orbit similar to Swanson for SpaceCraft? And who is Ronson?
Yes, Bill Ronson was owner and producer of the Orbit brand covers.He was also responsible for the creation and use of the "plugged 9" postmarks on the Orbit covers. |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1887
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-08-2023 04:28 PM
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Originally posted by onesmallstep:
I saw an MA-8 SpaceCraft cachet cover listed unaddressed, with a hand cancel, at here.
Thank you very much! I had forgotten about the Space Cover Store and will buy the MA-8 cover you pointed out, along with an MA-7 and MA-9 that are also available. So now with everyone's kind help, I will be able to acquire the seven covers I have asked about to make my Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle launch cover set uniform and consistent: SpaceCraft covers for Mercury; "Orbit" covers for Gemini; and crew patch printed cachet covers for Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle for a total 166. My fairly quick visit — I'll take more time next — showed that the Space Cover Store has a huge assortment and variety of early space covers, along with Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle covers. It illustrates the vast overabundance of space covers created and produced for those space programs. Also available are many astronaut autographed covers, including a nice STS-4 crew signed cover (Mattingly/Hartsfield) and an STS-8. |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 868
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-09-2023 06:19 AM
Congratulations Bob!!!What's up next on your "completion" list? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3741
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-09-2023 07:28 AM
Been on a resort vacation this week, Bob, and missed your latest cS-posting topic. On vacation I promised my wife no space work! Did you get all of the needed Mercury SCC's and Orbit covers that were listed? If not, let me know what still may be needed as I should have all of them available as extras (unsigned). Is there anything else needed? |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1887
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-09-2023 08:24 AM
Wow, Ken, thanks! And I'll contact you about the SpaceCraft and Orbit covers I need. And for anyone considering assembling a set of launch covers for the 166 M-G-A-STS flights, Ken certainly could offer a lot of help.And to reply to Joel, no new space cover completion plans, but I do have a "dream" competition set, but it will remain just a dream. As a companion to a launch cover set would be a complete set of splashdown-recovery/landing covers for the 166 NASA flights, from Mercury-Redstone 3 to STS-135. But immediately two recovery covers would stop almost any such ambitious quest: very rare covers from the MR-3/Lake Champlain PRS and also the MR-4/Randolph PRS. Both price and availability would likely end any such quest. But the rest of the way would not be overly difficult (maybe GT-8), but a complete collection of 135 Space Shuttle landing covers is very doable. Good luck! |
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