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Topic: [RR Auction] Autographs, Artifacts (May 2019)
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nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 05-21-2019 02:13 PM
   
Amazing Apollo 14 flown backpack strap as part of RR Auction's Autographs and Artifacts Auction, beginning May 24, 2019. I don't know whose this is, but I'm sure Leon Ford had either this and one of Pete Conrad's or both of Pete Conrad's straps. I'm waiting for my lottery numbers to come up then I'm adding loads to my collection, lol. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2915
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 05-21-2019 02:56 PM
Just for the record and for provenance purposes, the original owner of Conrad's twin PLSS backpack straps was Ken Havekotte more than 25 years ago. Many years afterwards, one of the straps had been sold to a Georgia dealer. The new space dealer, soon after he had acquired it from Ken, sold it to Leon Ford. The second backpack strap, several years later, was eventually sold to Leon by Ken. |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 05-22-2019 12:43 AM
Thanks for the info Ken, I thought misremembered Leon having Mitchell's strap and you have confirmed this.
Looking on the internet archive site at Leon's old website I can now see Leon had Mitchell's colour camera calibration target. I knew he had something special from Mitchell's lunar surface time. |
Daniel on the Moon
Member Posts: 354
From: Bronxville, NY
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-22-2019 10:31 PM
Just for clarification purposes, astronaut Mitchell identifies the subject strap as a "lower right strap" when in fact it is an upper right strap. | |
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