Lot #522

Space Collection

Description

Space Collection

The personal space collection of Robert Shaw. Collection includes over 150 official signed and unsigned NASA lithographs ranging from Mercury to the Space Shuttle; models, books, over 200 unsigned space covers (including many FDCs), and a meteor fragment. Highlights of the collection include: signed and inscribed photos from Neil Armstrong, Jim Irwin, John Young, Harrison Schmitt, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Walt Cunningham, Fred Haise, James McDivitt, and Tom Stafford; a launch day FDC signed by John Glenn; an FDC postmarked the date of Glenn’s Mercury launch, signed by John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, and Robert Gilruth (with autopen signatures of Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, and Alan Shepard); an oversized color portrait of the Voyager in flight, signed by Jeana Yeager, Dick Rutan, and Burt Rutan; an original color John Glenn Boy Scout recruitment poster; a hardcover copy of To Space & Back, signed and inscribed by Sally Ride; an unsigned copy of The Astronauts Pioneers in Space published by Life; an original front page of the October 5, 1957, New York World-Telegram, with the headline announcing “Reds Win Space Race; Satellite No Surprise to U.S.”; a model of a Bell X-2 jet; a 1.75″ diameter pin honoring Alan Shepard as America’s first astronaut; an unusual unused ‘thrift missile’ pocket rocket coin savings folder from the Hartford Federal Savings and Loan Association; and a space ship sewing kit, which retains 15 of its original needles. In overall very good to fine condition. RR Auction COA. From The Robert Shaw Collection.