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Space & Aviation Memorabilia Auction
10:00 AM PT - May 31st, 2003

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Bell Canyon, CA 91307
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663 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
51 Lot 51

3/18/1961 Little Joe 5A Launch Cover.
An unaddressed cover with a magenta hand stamped descriptive ...

100
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150
52 Lot 52

1961 Nov. 10th, "Goliath" Launch Covers
Lot of two cachet covers including one with a red/black Space...

100
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150
53 Lot 53

1961, Nov 10 "Goliath" Launch Cover
with a red/black cachet. The Atlas launch vehicle exploded wh...

75
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100
54 Lot 54

11/29/1961"Enos" Launch & Recovery Covers
Lot of two launch covers with Port Canaveral AM hand cancel (...

100
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150
55 Lot 55

Carpenter,Cooper,Glenn,Grissom, Schirra,Shepard & Slayton Autographs
on a NASA 8x10" black and white pu...

500
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750
56 Lot 56

Grissom, Shepard,Glenn, Schirra,Carpenter and Cooper Autographs
on National Airlines notepaper (5x7") w...

750
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1,000
57 Lot 57

Gus Grissom and Wally Schirra Autographs
on a framed poster distributed on the occasion of the erectio...

350
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500
58 Lot 58

Mercury Project Summary
(1963, NASA SP-45, 450pp., soft cover, bound.) This document ...

75
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100
59 Lot 59

Mercury Project Summary Draft Binder
A ONE-OF-A-KIND collection of photographs collected by John B...

75
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100
60 Lot 60

Two Project Mercury NASA Reports
Two Project Mercury Reports
Lot of two different soft-cov...

100
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150
61 Lot 61

Project Mercury-A Chronology NASA Book
Project Mercury-A Chronology prepared by James M. Grimwood.<...

75
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100
62 Lot 62

This New Ocean-History of Mercury Program
1966, "This New Ocean-A History of Project Mercury"
by Sw...

100
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150
63 Lot 63

Lectures in Aerospace Medicine
Three books (published 1960, 1961 and 1962, soft cover) compi...

50
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75
64 Lot 64

Space the New Frontier
(NASA, 48pp., soft cover.) This booklet (8.25x10.25") is a li...

30
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50
65 Lot 65

Five Issues of "Roundup"
Nice collection of some of the earliest editions of NASA's pe...

30
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50
66 Lot 66

Six Different Mercury Launch Covers
Complete Set of Six Different Launch Covers
from the Mann...

75
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100
67 Lot 67

Millennium Gorilla Astronaut Toy
(11x23x11") This is one of the neatest space toys that we hav...

150
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250
68 Lot 68

NASA "Meatball" Fine China Saucers
NASA "Meatball" Saucers by Walker Fine China
Lot of two s...

150
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250
69 Lot 69

NASA "Meatball" Fine China Saucers
NASA "Meatball" Saucers by Walker Fine China
Lot of two s...

150
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250
70 Lot 70

Set of 10 Astronaut Group Photographs
Lot of NASA 8x10" color photographs of Astronaut Groups 1, 2,...

75
-
100
71 Lot 71

1960, July 29 Launch Cover
with a Patrick AFB machine cancel and a Harry Gordon add-on c...

75
-
100
72 Lot 72

1960, Dec. 19 Launch Cover
with a Patrick AFB machine cancel and a Harry Gordon add-on c...

75
-
100
73 Lot 73

1960, Dec. 19 Launch Cover
with a magenta hand stamped cachet and a Patrick AFB machine ...

75
-
100
74 Lot 74

1/31/1961 "HAM" Launch Cover
with a Sarzin cachet and hand cancel. Pristine and scarce.

100
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150
75 Lot 75

1/31/1961 Chimp "HAM" Launch Cover
with a Stan Urban generic black cachet and hand cancel. Prist...

100
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150
76 Lot 76

1961, Mar 24 Launch Cover
with a black printed cachet and a Patrick AFB machine cancel....

100
-
150
77 Lot 77

1961, Apr 25 Launch Cover
with a purple hand stamped cachet and a Patrick AFB machine c...

150
-
250
78 Lot 78

Alan Shepard Autograph
(blue ink) on a launch cover with a black cachet. Clean and a...

100
-
150
79 Lot 79

Alan Shepard Autograph
on an 8x10" color photo (professionally matted and framed to ...

100
-
150
80 Lot 80

Alan Shepard Autograph
Similar lot. Number 936 of 2,500 and is accompanied by a Unit...

100
-
150
81 Lot 81

1961, May 5 Launch Cover
with a black cachet and a "Boy, What a Ride!" quote (added af...

75
-
100
82 Lot 82

1961, May 5 Launch Cover
with a Patrick AFB machine cancel and a Swanson black cachet ...

75
-
100
83 Lot 83

USS Lake Champlain Prime Recovery Ship Cover
The rarest of all recovery ship covers, this one is in unu...

4,500
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5,500
84 Lot 84

Flown "Washer" Mercury 4 Liberty Bell
Flown "Washer"
recovered from the Liberty Bell 7 capsule ...

250
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350
85 Lot 85

Gus Grissom Autograph
on a color 8x10" publicity photo. Attractive.

350
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500
86 Lot 86

Jim Lewis Autograph
on a black and white (8x10") photograph of the attempted reco...

50
-
75
87 Lot 87

Jim Lewis Autograph
on a black and white (8x10") photograph of the attempted reco...

50
-
75
88 Lot 88

USS Randolph Prime Recovery Ship Cover
with a "Project Mercury" blue hand stamped cachet and an add-...

2,500
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3,500
89 Lot 89

Virgil I. Grissom "Documentation" Cards
Lot of three different wallet-sized cards including 1) his NA...

350
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500
90 Lot 90

Gus Grissom American League Baseball Pass and Leather Pass Case
(5x3") A 1961 American League Pass made...

350
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500
91 Lot 91

1961, Sept 13 Launch Cover
with a Port Canaveral hand cancel and a silver/green "flocked...

75
-
150
92 Lot 92

9/13/1961 Talking Robot Launch & Recovery Covers
Lot of three different cachet launch covers (Spacecraf...

100
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150
93 Lot 93

1961, Sept. 13 Launch Cover
Lot of two similar covers, one with a Port Canaveral hand can...

100
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150
94 Lot 94

Mercury MA-5 Spacecraft Hatch Shingle
Mercury Atlas MA-5 Spacecraft Hatch Shingle
(Approx. 26" ...

40,000
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50,000
95 Lot 95

1961, Nov 29 Launch Cover.
Lot of two similar covers, one with a Port Canaveral hand can...

100
-
150
96 Lot 96

John Glenn Autographs
on a 4c Project Mercury FD cover and on a limited edition (3/...

250
-
350
97 Lot 97

John Glenn Autograph
on the inscription page and on a certificate of authenticity ...

250
-
350
98 Lot 98

John Glenn Autograph
on "First United States Manned Three-Pass Orbital Mission (Me...

100
-
150
99 Lot 99

John Glenn Autograph
on a NASA 8x10" publicity photo (on Kodak paper) of him in a ...

100
-
150
100 Lot 100

John Glenn Autograph
on a 1963 (20 Feb.) typed letter on NASA letterhead stationer...

100
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150
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