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1942 Astronomy Feldpost 'Afrikacorps Astronomischer Messtrup' Cover - Rare special unit 'Africa Corps' cover sent by the 'astronomical unit'. Sender No. Fp-Nr.39496. Ideal for inclusion in Astronomy postal history exhibit or similar thematic collection. Fine to very fine.

1948 Astronomy Clyde Tombaugh & Carl Sagan Autographed Cover - Highly attractive first day issue cacheted cover signed by both Clyde Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto) and Carl Sagan (space scientist). Addressed and in good condition.

C.1960-90s Astronomy Clyde Tombaugh Autographed Cover Collection - Wonderful lot containing 12 autographed covers by Clyde Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto). Majority of covers have cachets and all of them are canceled. Pristine.

- Contains four USGS professional papers and two USGS maps. The following papers are included: USGS Professional Paper 812-A, USGS Professional Paper 812-B, USGS Professional Paper 785-Petrology and Stratigraphy of the Fra Mauro Formation at the Apo... (Click Title for More Details)

- Contains three covers and one 3x5" presentation card signed by Clyde Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto). Covers have cancels on them. All in good to pristine condition. "

- U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348. softbound 11x14.5", 314pp. well illustrated with hundreds of lunar photos & diagrams. The key work on Lunar Geology. Seldom offered. Very fine. "

- Encased in 3.5x3.5"x1" clear Lucite block, this 1.5" square of solar cells were part of the ESA solar array that powered the Hubble Space Telescope used in orbit from April 1990 until December 1993. Ideal flown display piece for anyone enthralled ... (Click Title for More Details)

- Consists of five identical 8x10" Black & White autographed photos of Clyde Tombaugh. Three photos have '30 July 1991' in addition to Tombaugh's autograph. One photograph has a smudge on the 'Clyde' autograph. All in excellent condition, except for... (Click Title for More Details)

- Complete crew of STS-61, first mission to service the Hubble telescope have signed this limited edition Lockheed 18x24" multicolor poster. Covey, Bowersox, Thornton, Nicollier, Hoffman, Musgrave & Akers have all signed in black sharpie. Some scrat... (Click Title for More Details)

1933 Balloons 'Century Of Progress' Balloon Piece - Rectangular piece of this famous balloon, 3¬x5", PLUS Aug. 5, 1933, Grimsley Piccard-Compton Stratospheric Ascent cacheted cover honoring balloon, cancelled at Century of Progress in Chicago. Collec... (Click Title for More Details)

1934 Balloons Jean Piccard's Stratospheric Balloon Flight - Extraordinary group of memorabilia items from the historic flight. Jean & Jeanette Piccard reached a record altitude of 17.5km (10.9 miles during this flight). Includes: yellow felt 'Ground ... (Click Title for More Details)

1976 Balloons 'Atmosat America' Balloon Mail - Cacheted #10 envelope cancelled April 12, 1976, at Eden, TX. Signed by pilot Tom Heinsheimer and backstamped at Gooden, TX. Very fine, but stamp has folded LL corner prior to cancel.

1980 Balloons 'Double Eagle Iv' Flight Cover - Flown cover on balloon launched from Fountain Valley, CA on April 26 as part of Gordon Bennett Race. Landed at Taft, CA on April 30 (backstamp). Signed by Ben Abruzzo & Larry Newman #109/1000. (2008 PSA/DNA LOA)

1925 Zeppelin Memorabilia Airship U.S.S. Shenandoah Girder Selvaged From Crash - Piece of girder, 7« long, from ill-fated airship with notarized COA from Daniel Koch whose family obtained the piece from long time Ava Ohio resident who lived just few ... (Click Title for More Details)

- First is 1932 'Zeppelin Weltfahrten' cigarette card book complete with all 263 cards. Some aging to cover as expected. Second book is 'Die Amerikafahrt des Graf Zeppelin' by Dr Hugo Eckener, hardbound, 1928, 120 pages in which he describes first t... (Click Title for More Details)

1929 Zeppelin Memorabilia Zeppelin Round-The-World Flight Pocket Watch - Hefty 2 diameter pocket watch with black face and gold numerals and with hour, minute and second hands. Face depicts world with 'Zep' in flight. Reverse is engraved with Graf Ze... (Click Title for More Details)

1930s Zeppelin Memorabilia Large Duralumin Box Girder From Macon Or Akron - Big 32 piece of girder that came from Joe Bennett who worked at the Goodyear Hanger in 1975-6 when Goodyear was re-roofing or re-skinning portions of the hanger and parts of ... (Click Title for More Details)

- Meissen porcelain DZR 10? plate made for Zeppelin ground service with Meissen logo on reverse and DZR flag on plate rim. Exceptional condition. Mountain City Museum of the Wars COA. "

- Marvelous piece of Akron memorabilia, 7¬x2«"x2¬" piggybank made out of duralumin in shape of the Goodyear Airdock. We have never seen anything like this before. Some aging as one would expect, excellent condition. "

- Meissen porcelain DZR 8 plate made for Zeppelin ground service with Meissen logo on reverse and DZR flag on plate rim. Exceptional condition. Mountain City Museum of the Wars COA. "

- Original 2«x1«" metal badge with pin & clasp. Aging but no pitting. Excellent condition for this very scarce badge. "

- Spectacular multicolored 28 pennant honoring 'U.S. Navy Akron' airship still bearing original purple ties. Pennant image shows great airship partially inside the Goodyear Zeppelin hanger. We have never seen this pennant before. Great piece of Akro... (Click Title for More Details)

- Elliptical shaped cloth patch with gold thread against black depicting the airship, semi-major axes are about 3? and 3" in size. First time we have seen this patch. Excellent condition. "

1930 Zeppelin Memorabilia August 1 St. Hubert Airfield Airship R100 Pennant - Sold for only one day at the airfield in Montreal for the first transatlantic crossing by British airship since R34 in 1919. Pennant measures 26 from end to end and still h... (Click Title for More Details)

1933 Zeppelin Memorabilia Graf Zeppelin Flight Cover Signed By Hugo Von Eckener - Century of Progress Chicago to Seville Spain flight cover franked with 50› green USA Zeppelin stamp and bearing beautiful blue cachet depicting airship. Signed by Dr. Eckener. Very good condition.

- Century of Progress Zeppelin flight cover, Chicago to Seville, with 'The German American Group' cachet. Legal size cover franked with 50› green USA Zeppelin stamp. Very scarce & in very good condition.

1936 Zeppelin Memorabilia Hindenburg Lz129 Lakehurst Pennant - Very scarce 28-1/2 pennant celebrating airship Hindenburg's arrival in Lakehurst NJ. Still bears original purple ties. Pennant was probably made to celebrate airship's first crossing to N... (Click Title for More Details)

- Phenomenal piece of Hindenburg crash memorabilia, table spoon from airship. Includes COA from Floyd Hooper who describes how he obtained the spoon. Spoon was picked up after the crash by marriage related relative Isabel, whose husband was in Navy ... (Click Title for More Details)

- Ships in the Sky' hardbound, 1957, book by John Toland with Charles Rosendahl, famous American captain of the airship Shenandoah, signed photo card in front PLUS extensive handwritten and signed note, dated 1965, inside book. Great double autographed piece.

- One of the earliest postal history items related to rocketry. This rare Vienna-Neustadt folded letter comes with two other K.K. military letters (not related to the Feuerworks Corp.). Amazingly good condition for its age & rarity. Embossed seal: '... (Click Title for More Details)

- Black & white 6x8.5" litho of the Austrian born inventor & scientist who helped found the German 'Verein fur Raumschiffahrt' (VfR-Spaceflight Society) that would later bring together many of the minds who would make spaceflight a reality. He wrote... (Click Title for More Details)

1935 Austria Letter From Vienna 'Feuerwerksanstalt' - Long two sided 8x10" handwritten letter with censor marking on both contents & cover from Vienna 'Feuerwerksanstalt'. Quite scarce. Fine to very fine. "

1940s Austria Vienna 'Feuerwerksanstalt' Letter - Scarce handwritten letter from the Vienna Feuerwerksanstalt with German censor marking. Very fine.

1928 Germany 'Mit Raketenkraft Ins Weltnall' By Otto Willi Gail - First printing, hardbound with black & red on yellow pictorial cover (white spine). Illustrated in black & white line drawings & photos, this is a scarce first printing, Other than cor... (Click Title for More Details)

- Lot contains 14 signed items, two signed 2x2" display sheets by Rudolf Nebel, a souvenir sheet signed by Nebel, signed postcard by Hermann Oberth, a souvenir sheet signed by Gerhard Zucker, three postcards signed by Nebel, a publicity card signed ... (Click Title for More Details)

- April 1933 edition (No. 8) of this first rocket magazine in the World. Comes with two later issues from 1953 & 1957. Some aging of pages & a bit of spotting, still scarce & very desirable.

- Group of five pieces of V-1 recovered in Great Britain. Sizes varies to about 4x1-1/4". Recovered in Westerham Kent by member of Federation of Independent Detectorists (FID). Very scarce. (2002 Jay Howe FID Cert) "

- Group of three injection valves from the V-2 combustion chamber. Each is about ? across & 5/8" long, threaded brass colored metal. Interesting. "

- Pair of vintage badges from the World War II German V2 rocket research & production area. HAP badge 1094 is circular, 1" diameter from 'Heimat-Artillerie-Park'; HVP badge 2355 is oval 1-3/8"x1" from the Army Research Center at Peenemunde where Wer... (Click Title for More Details)

- Rare Feldpost cover with silent postmark in black & 'Heeres-Feuerwerkserschule' in blue. Very fine.

- Baukeitung der Luftwaffe' V-2 related document. Very scarce Luftwaffe document (8x12" with usual toning, hole punches at left & horizontal & vertical filing folds. Has red handstamp, pencil signatures in black, blue & red. Scarce & fine to very fine. "

- Handwritten letter plus original cover sent to 'HAP 11'(Heimat Artillerie Park') V-2 rocket facility. Very fine & scarce.

- Electromechanische Werke' document (camouflage name for rocket production) order confirmation (8x12") from Peenemunede V-2 facility late in WWII. Light overall toning as usual, horizontal file fold. Rare & very fine. "

- Rare 'HAP 11' document with red & blue handstamps & numerous initials in black or blue pencil. Army Artillery Park documents are quite scarce & in high demand because of the Peenemunde/V-2 rocket connection. Very fine.

- Scarce V-2 related cover dated 13.5.1944. Very fine.

- Rare document from 'WVA' where Peenemunde rocket work was 'outsourced' at the end of World War II. Few documents are known from here relating to rocket production. Red handstamp & black & red pencil notations. Vertical file fold, hole punch & stap... (Click Title for More Details)

- This head-turning lot features 200 autographed covers by German rocket scientists that greatly impacted the world of rocketry. Notable names such as Nebel, Stuhlinger, Weidner, among others. Pristine condition.

- One of the earliest flown artifacts from the United States Space program. A 30 megacycle I F strip from the October 12 (6:00 PM MST) start of the Sodium Vapor Aerobee Rocket from Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. These instrument parts were ret... (Click Title for More Details)

- Large holding of more than 4600 covers from America's premier launch site. Includes rockets, satellite and interplanetary probe launch covers, properly postmarked at the Cape, early items with Port Canaveral and Patrick AFB cancels as well , some ... (Click Title for More Details)

- Huge offering of more than 3000 covers representing events from NASA's second launch site on the Atlantic coast. Scarce material, especially early covers. There are 100 covers from 1960-1961, 100 covers from 1962-1963 and so on. Most launch covers... (Click Title for More Details)