posted 04-23-2016 03:05 PM
The subject of the miniature Sokol KV-2 pressure suit popped up in a thread some time back but the primary concern was to their value. I am concerned with the origins of these replicas and was hoping some of the members of this form could help?I have seen only a handful of these miniatures over the years; they are certainly less common than their full size counterpart. The most recent was at a high profile auction in Europe approximately two years ago.
The auction house appraisers (with impeccable credentials I might add) believed these miniatures were made for cosmonauts who, for whatever reason, were unable to buy or keep their flown pressure suits. It was claimed that the miniatures were made by Zvezda.
Other hypothesese suggest that these were somehow "sales rep" samples to be shown to potential space faring parties with manned spaceflight plans of their own i.e. the Chinese.
Enquiries of Zvezda turned up only the statement, "We do not manufacture miniature suits." Perhaps not now but according to the auction house these miniatures were manufactured back in the mid to late 1980s.
Such is the attention to detail, the materials used and the exquisite functionality of the miniature I cannot see anybody other than Zvezda producing these half scale replicas. Can anybody out there give me the definitive breakdown on these miniatures?
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posted 04-23-2016 03:05 PM
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