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Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-21-2020 10:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Monday's (April 20) episode of Antiques Roadshow (McNay Art Museum, Hour 1) included a segment about a "prototype model of the Mercury capsule" and escape tower tested in a wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in Virginia. The owner's father was an aeronautical engineer with NASA's Space Task Group who tested these models. The owner explained:
From time to time, they would throw them in a junk pile behind the wind tunnel and one day, for whatever reason, he took one home and it sat in the garage for over 40 years. It was discovered when we moved my father and mother up here [to San Antonio] from Seabrook, Texas, where he worked at the Johnson Space Center.

The appraiser, James Supp of the Coronado Trading Co. in Idaho, said the model was most likely made in 1958 or 1959 and estimated its auction value to be between $60,000 and $80,000 and an insurance value of $80,000 to $120,000.

The owner said it an "interesting" appraisal, but the model was not for sale and it might end up in a museum.

(The same episode also included a Silver Snoopy pin, which is discussed here.)

SpaceAholic
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posted 04-21-2020 03:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
20-30K would be my estimate.

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