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Topic: Market for cosmonaut photos with signatures
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RNowalk803
New Member Posts: 7
From: Friendswood, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2019
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posted 08-05-2019 02:24 PM
   
I am looking to post many of the 1960-70s era cosmonaut signed photos. I am looking to assess interest in the Soviet era program.
I have inherited a large collection of space memorabilia from my father who recently passed. He both worked for the program and was a big fan as well. I have had the signatures reviewed for authenticity and I do have the provenance. I was interested in what space collectors were looking at these days in terms of collections. |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 867
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 08-05-2019 06:04 PM
Obviously the big one for Soviet era signatures would be Gagarin. For full value you'd certainly want to have it authenticated by a respected 3rd party like Zarelli. |
RNowalk803
New Member Posts: 7
From: Friendswood, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2019
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posted 08-05-2019 08:03 PM
Thank you. I have a Gagarin photo only, no signature.I did have Steve look at a couple and his opinion was those I shared were authentic. Included was Valentina Tereshkova. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 08-05-2019 09:31 PM
There's many other cosmonaut signatures worth a good amount other than Gagarin. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 08-05-2019 10:43 PM
In terms of most desirable cosmonaut autographs, you would certainly list the first six Vostok cosmonauts, including Gagarin and Tereshkova. However, those are fairly frequent. All of them, including Gagarin, were prolific signers. Just Gagarin is more expensive, as the demand for his historic role reaches far beyond the focused group of space aficionados. Whether Tereshkova or Leonov, the first spacewalker, there are many autographs on the market.The "real" rarities come a little later. Vladimir Komarov, for his tragic fate, would fetch medium high prices. The three cosmonauts of Soyuz 11 in 1971, who all died during reentry, are very, very rare and consequently subject to many forgeries. Volkov is a little more frequent as he had flown before, but autographs of Pazayev and Dobrovolski virtually do not exist. A totally unknown cosmonaut, Anatoli Levchenko, is also an absolute rarity. Since his flight on Soyuz TM-4 in 1987, he had barely eight months of life left to grant autographs before he died of a brain tumor. Cosmonauts usually only sign after they have flown, not as candidates. He is even rarer on photos. All other flyers in the 60s and 70s are fairly common and do not trigger much demand. |
RNowalk803
New Member Posts: 7
From: Friendswood, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2019
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posted 08-06-2019 06:08 AM
List of who I have in no particular order: color with signatures unless otherwise indicated. - Leonov
- Belyayev
- Volynov
- Eliseev
- Beregovoy
- Vosktok 2 - Titov
- Shatalov
- Vostok 1 - Gagarin (photo, no signature)
- Vostok 5 - Bykovsky (black and white, signed)
- Vostok 5 - Bykovsky
- Vostok 4 - Popovich
- Vostok 4 - Popovich (another portrait, unsigned)
- Vostok 6 - Tereshkova
- Komarov (unsigned)
- Khrunov
- Voshkod 1 group - Komarov, Feoktistov, Yegorov (signed except for Komarov)
- Group of seven - Black and white, signed-I do not who they are...working on identifying them.
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