|
|
|
|
Author
|
Topic: Value of NASA photos with purple ink captions
|
idrvball
Member Posts: 150
From: Burke, VA USA
Registered: Mar 2009
|
posted 03-19-2009 03:43 PM
   
In my research to find out the difference between vintage NASA photos with the purple ink on the back as opposed to no markings, whether it includes the red number on the front or no number at all, I met this guy and was showing him the picture of one of my photos that I put on eBay. He said that he would contact a friend at NASA and ask him. Here was his email response to me: I read the back of the other photos, and faxed this one to ...my buddy at NASA. He said this, and the others, are within the first 50-75 ever issued! That's why the "purple" ink. The dates confirm that. They were (some of yours) issued to the public (mainly new org.) for television. Do you agree with this answer from the guy at NASA? Or disagree? So, here are two photos for sale on ebay of the same shot. One is mine, one is someone else's. If the markings indicate, they are the earliest and there are only 50 to 75 of the photos with the markings, then, shouldn't they be significantly more valuable? |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
|
posted 03-19-2009 04:18 PM
Others on this forum are better placed than me to give you an authoritative answer to your question but I believe your friend is wrong re: "there are only 50 to 75" images.In recent years I have sold on many of the "vintage" photos I owned, but I'd swear there were a lot more than 70. From memory I once owned 10x8s like this from Apollos 7 thru ASTP... |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
|
posted 03-19-2009 05:27 PM
Purple press release info on the backs of vintage NASA photos is very common. From the numbers I've seen sold in the last few years (which can only be a tiny fraction of the total that were distrubuted) there's no way there can have been just 50-75 of each photo stamped this way. |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 542
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
|
posted 03-20-2009 12:06 PM
I agree. I suspect NASA used mimeograph machines which typically used purple ink.Annoyingly, heavier inks used can often bleed through to the emusion side and ruin the print over time, which is why I often prefer a print that escaped the mimeo! PS: the prints distributed to the media were primarily intended not for TV but for "newspapers," an early paper-based form of mass communication younger CS members may not be familiar with. |
AstroAutos
Member Posts: 803
From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
|
posted 03-22-2009 12:27 PM
I recently bought two Apollo 8 photos off of eBay-one depicted Frank Borman being suited up pre-flight, and the other showed the crew aboard the recovery ship after splashdown.Both photos were described as "vintage" in the item descriptions & both have the photo description and NASA stamp on the back in purple ink. I got these photos for about $12, which is quite cheap, so I suspect the purple ink is quite common! Best Wishes Mike!,
(Your good friend by now!),
Shane from Ireland! | |
Contact Us | The Source for Space History & Artifacts
Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved.
Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.47a
|
|
|
 advertisement
|
