DANVERS, Mass. – Bidders will look to the skies during JG.Limited’s online-only Frontiers of Flight auction, ending on Tuesday, October 18. Subtitled “Celebrating Over 100 Years of Space & Aviation History,” the sale contains 400 lots representing many of the most famous names in air travel, from Neil Armstrong to the Wright Brothers. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
Categories in the sale include aviation, beta cloth patches, astronauts, cosmonauts, international space figures, flown artifacts, flown Soviet covers, National Chicle Sky Birds cards and official NASA support crew and ephemera. JG.Limited is the auction arm of the collectibles concern JG Autographs, Inc.
Likely to finish among the top lots is a first day postal cover from September 9, 1969, commemorating the Apollo 11 moon mission in July of that year and signed in black felt tip marker by three astronauts from the mission: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The cover is in pristine condition, with completely flawless and bold autographs. It carries an estimate of $2,500-$3,000.
A second strong contender is an original front page newspaper printing plate from the Monday morning July 21, 1969 issue of the Milwaukee Sentinel, emblazoned with the screaming headline, “Men Walk On the Moon! Triumph for Mankind.” The semi-cylindrical drum, 14 ¼ by 14 by 7in, weighs 40 pounds and is accompanied by an actual copy of the newspaper. The lot has an estimate of $6,000-$7,500.
Amelia Earhart two-inch-square piece of fabric from the Lockheed Vega 5B she flew in 1932, estimated at $2,000-$2,500
A third is an Amelia Earhart two-inch-square piece of fabric from the Lockheed Vega 5B she flew in 1932, making her the first woman to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic. The presentation was created by the National Air and Space Museum; the swatch is mounted onto a 12 by 15in sheet, with a printed photo and a full history of the crew and the flight. Its estimate is $2,000-$2,500.
Yet another standout is an official NASA photograph from November 14, 1981, signed by Ronald Reagan during a presidential visit to the Johnson Space Center. Reagan also inscribed it, “To Anatole Forostenko / With Best Wishes! Ronald Reagan.” Included is Forostenko’s original letter to the president, asking him to sign some items.
Dr. Anatole Forostenko (b. 1939-) was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the U.S. in 1949. He joined NASA in 1974 and became involved in the Apollo-Soyuz test project as chief Russian language instructor for NASA’s astronauts, helping them communicate with cosmonauts during the mission. The photo has an estimate of $500-$750.
Astronaut Deke Slayton’s unpublished manuscript, sent to Anatole Forostenko in 1986, estimated at $400-$500
Another Anatol Forostenko item on offer is astronaut Deke Slayton’s typed, unpublished 169-page manuscript, which he sent to Forostenko on July 30, 1986. It is in excellent condition, with the original mailing envelope and an Apollo-Soyuz Mission photograph signed by Slayton, and is estimated at $400-$500. In addition, a collector’s edition hardcover copy of the book We Seven (Eaton Press), signed by astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn, is estimated at $300-$500.
A piece of Apollo 16 flight-flown beta cloth netting material coated with lunar dust from its trip to the moon’s surface from April 16-27, 1972, in fine condition with a COA and affixed to an 8 by 10in photographic display, has an estimate of $800-$1,200. Also, an Apollo 11 flight-flown Kapton heatshield foil swatch from the Command Module of Columbia, along with a secondary piece of Kapton foil from the lunar module Eagle removed prior to flight, is estimated at $400-$500.
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