Winter Autograph, Art and Sports Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2015
Collection of 3”x5” index cards each signed in ink from between 1966 and June of 1967. They are in fine condition, some toning and one with paperclip marks, but on whole, the collection are good to fine on off white cards. The collection is comprised of all of the astronauts from NASA Astronaut Group 5. The collection does have the very rare autograph of Givens, who was a reluctant signer, he was killed in an automobile accident on June 6, 1967, before being assigned to a prime or backup spaceflight crew, making his one of the toughest astronaut signatures to acquire. In his article ‘The Rarest of them All,’ noted collector Bob McLeod rates Givens’s signature as ‘perhaps the rarest of all NASA astronauts.
[1]Vance D. Brand, ex-USMC,
[2]John S. Bull, USN (1934–2008
[3]Gerald P. Carr, USMC
[4]Charles M. Duke, Jr, USAF,
[5] Joseph H. Engle, USAF,
[6]Ronald E. Evans, Jr, USN,
[7]Edward G. Givens, Jr, USAF
[8]Fred W. Haise, Jr, ex-USMC,
[9]James B. Irwin, USAF,
[10]Don L. Lind, ex-USN,
[11] Jack R. Lousma, USMC,
[12]T. Kenneth Mattingly, II, USN,
[13]Bruce McCandless II, USN,
[14]Edgar D. Mitchell, USN,
[15] William R. Pogue, USAF,
[16]Stuart A. Roosa, USAF,
[17]John L. Swigert, Jr, ex-USAF,
[18] Paul J. Weitz, USN,
[19]Alfred M. Worden, USAF
Edward Givens and Group 5 Astronauts
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