Value of Apollo 11 crew-signed index cards

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Topic: Value of Apollo 11 crew-signed index cards

Chuck_Joe
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Posts: 62
From: Belgium
Registered: Dec 2002

posted 12-11-2016 09:18 AM

I am a space collector from Belgium and I have an original crew litho of Apollo 11 with the autographs of all three famous astronauts. The signatures are original and dated from early 70s. The autographs are not inscribed on the litho but on separately white cards.

Does anyone know the value of this?

Robert Pearlman
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Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 12-11-2016 10:16 AM

Unfortunately, the signatures are not authentic autographs. They were applied to the cards using a machine called the autopen, which NASA used to answer many of the requests for the astronauts' autographs.

The machine used a pen of the operator's choice to trace a pattern of the astronaut's signature. Those patterns have now been well-documented such that they can be used to identify autopenned signatures.

Autopen signatures are not without some value, though it is minimal compared to authentic autographs.

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