posted 10-19-2025 10:12 AM               

Space Cover 828: Skylab falls error cover

One of my obsessions, among the many that all collectors have, is knowing how a space cover was made.

This is important to me because if I know the reasons and the difficulties the cachet maker faced during the cover-making process, I can better understand the result. Many times, when I look at a space cover, I wonder why this stamp was used and not another, why the cancellation is this one and not another, and why the cachet maker chose one cachet or another.

I try to imagine the meaning that space cover had for the cachet maker and thus gain a clearer understanding of why this space cover is the way it is, and not the way I think it should be. And this applies especially if the space cover bears more than one cancellation. Why cancel a space cover twice when just once is enough?

Top cover shows two Cape Canaveral cancel, mechanical for date Jun 11, 1979 and hand for date Jul 11, 1979. As this space cover came to me with a full explanation inside, I have scanned too both sides of this paper. No more comments to be added. Just read the full history for the background of this space cover. I hope you like it as much as I do.