Space & Autographs Auction Space & Autographs Auction Jan. 2014

Space Covers & Stamps 282X 281X Session I: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Estimate Estimate 282 1980 KSC EXPERIMENTAL METER COVERS ............................................................................... PH $200-300 SPACE ART 277 Ten-day test of scarce meter imprint by KSC Post Office from Aug 13-26, 1980. First and last day pair of matching covers. Article documenting background included. First of these we have seen in at least 25 years. Very fine. 1960s ‘PROTON SATELLITE’ SPACE ART BY V. GRIGORENKO ................................................. PH $200-300 Oil on Masonite (9¾x17"). Unusual work showing satellite Proton in space with rainbow-like formation in background. 278 1960s ‘ZOND’ SPACE ART BY V. GRIGORENKO ............................................................................... PH $200-300 – STAMPS – 283 1963-90 SOVIET SPACE STAMPS IN FULL SHEETS ...................................................................................... $400-600 Oil on Masonite (17x9¾”). Interesting work of Zond satellite performing an experiment. Unusual. 279 Collection of about 60 different full sheets of Russian commemoratives from the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s in complete, unfolded, unbroken sheets of MINT never hinged stamps commemorating manned Space flights. Very attractive. We have never seen as extensive a group of complete sheets of Russian space stamps like this offered before. Many complete sets with high catalog value. 1960s ‘SOYUZ LAUNCH’ SPACE ART BY V. RUBAN .............................................................. PH $200-300 Mixed media on Masonite(8x11"). Unusual 3-D work depicting Soyuz capsule being launched on Energia rocket. Done in shades of grey against black velvet background. Striking. 284 SPACE COVERS & STAMPS / / Selection of Space related items. Includes: small stockbook with 149 mostly MINT & Used stamps primarily from Czechoslovakia, Russia & USA; group of 52 USA Space FDCs with duplication for years 1962-77 including some with NASA Local Post labels, one joint USA/Russia Apollo/Soyuz FDC and 4 Russia Apollo/Soyuz FDCs/covers; four coins/tokens commemorating Skylab (x2) made from flown metal, Project Apollo/Apollo 11 and Apollo 8 made from flown metal. Overall fine to very fine. – COVERS – 280 1939 USA AIRMAIL CANNON MAIL COVER .... PH $750-1000 One of the most unusual airmail covers we have ever seen. Cover reads around border in red & blue: ‘AI RMAIL CANNON MAIL’. Single 16¢ air special delivery stamp tied by Feb 17, 1939 Tampa, FLA cancel, words ‘Delivered from/the Cannon this/day Feb 17/39’ typed next to address that reads: ‘Miss S-Tamp-A/In care of the Cannon Act/Pan American DeSoto Exposition/Tampa/Florida’. Cover ink signed by Hugo Zacchini, Mario Zacchini & Miss Stamp-A, Miss Arlene Sallade. Hugo Zacchini was one of the fathers of Human Cannonball circus stunt. This cover originates from period in which Zacchini had two sisters shot out of cannon in succession, more than 150 feet in air. Unique act called Zacchini’s Repeating Rocket Cannon Sensation. Apparently, each sister carried some mail along with them as they were launched from cannon on this date. Accompanied by collateral material that includes four color flyer from late 1960s advertising the act. Zacchini family had been performing the act for some years. First example of this mail we have ever seen. 281 1960s-70s MOSTLY RECOVERY COVERS (x80) ............................................................................... PH $200-300 Large group of about 80 recovery covers for every mission from Glenn’s MA-6 Mercury flight in 1962 to Apollo-Soyuz in 1975 with some Apollo unmanned as well. Highlights include an MA-6 USS NOA cover and a Gemini 8 USS Leonard Mason cover. Most in excellent condition. Also with this group are about 50 early Soviet space mission covers. Saint Louis, Missouri Space 4.pmd 1960s-70s USA SPACE STAMPS, FDCs & COINS .......................................................................... $200-300 285 / 1962-79 USA SPACE STAMPS, COVERS & OTHERS ....................................................................... $200-300 Variety of Space related items, mostly covers & stamps. Includes FDCs: (1) Project Mercury uncacheted Cape Canaveral (x18) & uncacheted Honolulu (x71), Apollo 11 cacheted, two Milestone Collection of Space Accomplishments in Stamps in Celebration of the Apollo Soyuz Mission booklets with FDC cancel; (2) Apollo 12 US Navy Recovery Force covers (x16) 12 cacheted & 4 no front cacheted (3 cachet on back & one no cachet), cancel date Nov 24, 1969 & ship cancels are USS Hawkins (x4 with one on back), USS Hornet (x4), USS Joseph Strauss (x3), USS Austin (x4 with one on front, 2 on back & one no cachet) & one cancel messed up & can not identify; (3) Skylab’s final orbit with two cancels Jun 11, 1979 & Jul 11, 1979; (4) Souvenir cards (x24) with 14 SC45 Weraba ’76 (5 postmarked Zurich & 9 Mint) & 10 SC48 Bicent. Expo on Science & Technology (5 Kennedy Space Center & 5 Mint); (5) USA MINT Stamps #1193 Pl Bl (x40), 1529 Pl Bl (x72) & 14 bl of 4, 1556 (x28), 1557 (x32), 1570 strips of 16 (x21) & bl of 4 (x26), 1759 (x24); (6) a few other things. 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