If you like space covers, you're well familiar with the beautiful John Glenn cover that Art Craft made for the First Day of Issue of the 4-cent "Project Mercury" stamp, which has a montage of three images: Glenn, a sketch of his capsule orbiting the Earth, and the Atlas rocket being launched. Thousands and thousands of the covers were printed, and cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the afternoon of his flight on February 20, 1962.
What is not generally known is that in addition to those, Art Craft also shipped out a number of ERROR covers that mistakenly carried a picture of the
REDSTONE
rocket that had carried Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on their earlier suborbital flights (though it was still labeled as an "Atlas-Mercury.") These error covers show up on Ebay occasionally, where they are quickly snapped up by collectors.
Since I've always preferred Shepard anyway, I decided to run with the idea, and have made a limited number of
ALAN SHEPARD "Project Mercury" covers
in the same style as the Art Craft FDC. It's a genuine vintage "Project Mercury" first day cover, cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the day of the stamp's issue, but with Glenn's portrait replaced with America's first man in space, Alan Shepard. The rocket has been correctly captioned as a "MERCURY-REDSTONE AT LIFT-OFF" and the commemoration has been changed to "FIRST SUCCESSFUL SPACE FLIGHT BY AN AMERICAN - MAY 5, 1961"; aside from that (and my own cachet logo replacing Art Craft's) I made it as similar to the original as possible.
See my other auctions for the matching Gus Grissom launch cover.
The covers are in great vintage condition (although of course, your cover will not have my Ebay ID splashed across the front.) One of these will look great displayed beside an Art Craft John Glenn FDC (or especially with one of the rare error covers!) Contact me with any questions.
Authentic ECHOSTAR XIX 19 JUPITER 2 - ATLAS V - ULA SATELLITE SPACE Launch PATCH
The EchoStar XIX, the highest capacity broadband satellite in the world, was launched into the geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) onboard an Atlas V rocket in December 2016. Also known as Jupiter 2, the satellite is used by Hughes Network Systems (Hughes) for providing broadband internet services across North America.
THIS - ORIGINAL - FULLY EMBROIDERED - USAF - 4" - SPACE Launch PATCH IS IN - MINT - CONDITION
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