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Topic: 121419649884: Kennedy Space Center sign
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4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-30-2014 07:27 PM
   
Take a look at item number 121419649884. Is it just me or does that look like a sign from the Mercury astronauts' parking spaces at Launch Pad 14? (I am not the buyer, nor seller.) |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2475
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-30-2014 07:54 PM
It does and the one on display there now is obviously new.Below are two photos we took back in July 2011. One is Carpenter's and it looks original and the other is Glenn's and it looks new.  
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4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-30-2014 07:57 PM
I thought the same too. This one auctioned is obviously metal and I just looked at some shots I took the last time I was at the pad and they now look like a thick plastic. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-30-2014 08:14 PM
The seller appears to be a surplus/scrap dealer. Given the wear to the sign, seems feasible that it would have been replaced by CCAFS and the metal sign released for recycling... |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-31-2014 07:40 AM
Absolutely! Wasn't suggesting anything nefarious. Just looking to learn if my inclination was correct. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-09-2014 04:30 PM
This seller looks like the real deal because Cooper and Carpenter have just been auctioned. Aside from the Complex 14 treasures, he's also selling some Cape Space Wing signage too.I wonder when the signs on the Mercury parking spaces were changed out? Does anyone have photos of the parking spaces from the 80's or 90's? The ones for sale are quite weathered so perhaps they were changed out within the last few years? |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 09-09-2014 06:00 PM
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Originally posted by 4allmankind:
This seller looks like the real deal because Cooper and Carpenter have just been auctioned.
Could you post a link, or an eBay number, for those other two signs? I searched past sales on eBay and couldn't find them. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 09-09-2014 07:06 PM
Steve, an easy way to find them is to take the number of the completed auction and pull it up on eBay and then look under his other auctions. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-09-2014 07:15 PM
Oddly enough, the Cooper and Carpenter signs do not come up with the seller's completed sales.But here they are: Cooper and Carpenter. |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 808
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-09-2014 08:21 PM
Oh man, I just saw these signs. If I would have seen them while they were active on eBay I'd own at least one of them right now.If the winner(s) are on this board and are willing to sell one of them let me know. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-09-2014 09:45 PM
Those signs really are an amazing piece of history for fans of the Complex 14 flights. Glenn was sold first for $66 and the Cooper went for double. Carpenter for nearly triple that! Not sure how to put a value on them but if one wants to own a piece of The Cape, I can't think of many better ways. |
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