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Topic: Opinions of Mercury 7-signed Echo 1 display
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jonspace
Member Posts: 169
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 03-25-2015 01:46 PM
   
Anyone know anything about this piece? Are the autographs authentic? It is being offered to me privately.Sorry for the bad photograph. I'm trying to get better quality photos and as soon as I get them I will upload.  
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kosmo
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Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 03-25-2015 02:59 PM
The Shepard autograph looks off to me.On second look, its the Jr. at the end that looks atypical to me. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-25-2015 04:37 PM
I've seen this piece beforehand, actually some years ago, but the Mercury 7 signatures on them appear fine to me. Note the early autograph patterns of all seven, around 1960-61, and I've got Shepard signatures like this in my own collection to represent that early vintage Mercury period before any of the first spacemen flew. |
jonspace
Member Posts: 169
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 03-25-2015 05:22 PM
Is this piece intended to have the Echo 1 cover? Or is this something that was put together by the collector? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-25-2015 06:38 PM
It looked to be an attempt to display one of the first space-related first day covers, in commemoration of the world's first communications satellite, Echo 1, that was launched from the Cape four months earlier from the issue date of the new USPS Echo 4-cent postage stamp. Echo 1 had been a great achievement for our nation--and the world--by the successful orbit of the 100-foot diameter aluminized mylar-coated balloon satellite in Aug. 1960. The early space cover and autograph collector from that era probably thought it would be a good idea to display a popular Echo 1 Artcraft first day cover along with a presentation of all Mercury 7 astronaut signatures, but also, he/she included an actual Echo mylar sample that tied all the elements together. |
jonspace
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 03-25-2015 06:46 PM
Excellent. Thanks for the insight! Looks like someone else beat me to it. It sold before I had a chance to make an offer. |
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