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Interkomos
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From: Moscou
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posted 11-01-2018 02:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Interkomos   Click Here to Email Interkomos     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anyone know the story of this fake patch of Soyuz 8?

Errors: 1969 became 1976. Soyuz became Snyuz. The acronym CCCP has become JWSM?

The manufacture is old is consistent with the year 1976. Is this a fabrication in the euphoria of Appolo-Soyuz? Thank you to all who answer.

hoorenz
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posted 11-01-2018 07:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hoorenz   Click Here to Email hoorenz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The original patch was Vadim Molchanov's design, a "retrospective" patch made in the early 1990s together with Stewart Aviation in England, as part of a larger series of "souvenir" designs.

This looks like a bad copy of the Stewart Aviation patch, where the manufacturer copied the shapes of the letters instead of actually reading (and understanding!) the text and use a font for it. We see this more often in patches that were not copied from the original artwork, but from another embroidered patch.

Although the embroidery might appear as a 1970s original, it can never be, because Molchanov's design is from the early 90s.

Interkomos
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posted 11-01-2018 11:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Interkomos   Click Here to Email Interkomos     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for your answers. I think it's as important for a collector to know the history of fake as genuine patches.

Liembo
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posted 11-01-2018 02:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you look at the seller's other recent auctions from the same time you can see they had a few other patches listed that mimic other NASA patches. They're probably removed from a jacket or shirt from a commercially produced product, similar to the stylized NASA patches that have altered labelling found on replica flight jackets for kids or costume space suits. The "United States of Denim" is pretty good tell.

Interkomos
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posted 11-03-2018 03:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Interkomos   Click Here to Email Interkomos     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well done. Indeed, the last patch "United States of denim" was the key.

Thanks for the lesson.

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