U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 29-30, 2016

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Lot #1462
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA
1959-1962 souvenir sheets, selection, including Polar Year souvenir sheet of four (9), overprinted "1962" (6); 1r Cosmonauts perforated souvenir sheet of four (8), imperforate souvenir sheet of four (5), all on registered covers, first two canceled at the Polar Space Station, others various post offices; also additional five covers, franked with stamps from souvenir sheets (Polar Station) and two other more recent Space-related covers, fine-v.f., scarce group
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Price Realized
$525.00

Lot #1463
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA
SPACE. 1962 imperforate souvenir sheet of four, canceled on unaddressed First Day Cover, autographed by three of the four Cosmonauts pictured (Titov, Nikolayev and Popovich); also 1976 International Space Hall of Fame, U.S. cover, signed by the Russian and American crews. In addition, this lot contains the special 1976 Yuri Gagarin Issue, group of 16 registered First Day Covers, each on the 6k Apollo-Soyuz stationery entire envelope, canceled "Kosmodrom Baikonur", v.f. (Baikonur Cosmodrome is Earth's first and largest operational space launch facility, located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan. Currently, it is leased by the Kazakh Government to Russia (until 2050) and is managed jointly by the Roscosmos State Corporation and the Russian Aerospace Forces. It was originally built by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s as the base of operations for its space program. Under the current Russian space program, Baikonur remains a busy spaceport, with numerous commercial, military, and scientific missions being la
Envelope
Price Realized
$240.00

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