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Topic: 321422122142: Moonwalkers print signed by 9
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schnappsicle
Member Posts: 396
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 07-01-2014 09:08 PM
   
I saw a Moonwalkers print on eBay that's missing the Dave Scott and John Young signatures. Were any of them sold before all 11 astronauts signed them? Why would the two signatures be missing? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-01-2014 09:25 PM
The prints' first round of signings did not include Scott, Young or Schmitt. Novaspace added those three during subsequent signings. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-01-2014 09:32 PM
I believe Scott said at one point that he wouldn't be signing it. I remember when I first joined cS reading about how someone color-copied the portion Scott would have signed, sent it in for one of his signings, and then glued it onto the print! |
chet
Member Posts: 1506
From: Beverly Hills, Calif.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-02-2014 01:38 AM
Of course, the prints also did not include Armstrong's signature. (Does anyone know if anybody was ever successful in getting him to sign one of these?) |
deputydave1
Member Posts: 89
From: Loxahatchee, Florida, USA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 07-03-2014 11:05 AM
Just my two cents, I could never get excited about this print. Having that "missing" signature just bugs the heck out of me. |
Steve Zarelli
Member Posts: 731
From: Upstate New York, USA
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 07-03-2014 01:54 PM
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Originally posted by deputydave1:
Just my two cents, I could never get excited about this print. Having that "missing" signature just bugs the heck out of me.
Me too. LOL Ron Lewis did a series of terrific baseball HOF portraits that make for great signed 8x10s. He was dead on for baseball. In my opinion, his likenesses of the astronauts are inconsistent. Some are quite good and others not so strong. This print also suffers from a pretty drab color palette. Given what he did with baseball, it makes one yearn for how much better the moonwalker print could have been. Also, if he had done individual portraits like he did with HOFers, it would have been a fun set to collect. Just my 2 cents. |
Tonyspace
Member Posts: 120
From: Edison, New Jersey
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 07-06-2014 09:58 AM
The scouts own a donated 9 moonwalker print. Dave Scott signed it at a Rutherford, NJ show. John Young signed it in 2011 at Novaspace. If you go the Novaspace website and click on John Young you can see him signing it. |
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