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Topic: Efim Sandler space cover collection website
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fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-29-2016 06:01 PM
I was inspired by some of you, who created websites to show your collections, so I created mine. Meanwhile I filled the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) part — I don't have too much stuff. I would appreciate if you can take a 30-second look through and let me know your opinion. I understand, I need to work more on the texts, as English is not my mother language. |
micropooz Member Posts: 1678 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 05-29-2016 07:45 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed your new website! Keep up the great work! |
Antoni RIGO Member Posts: 272 From: Palma de Mallorca, Is. Baleares - SPAIN Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 06-01-2016 02:55 AM
Congratulations Efim.I hope to see more of your excellent covers in this site. Thanks for sharing with others collectors your covers and knowledge. It is the only way I know to learn daily. |
garymilgrom Member Posts: 2116 From: Atlanta, GA Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-01-2016 07:05 AM
Very nice work Efim. Good job! |
Tallpaul Member Posts: 213 From: Rocky Point, NY, USA Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 06-01-2016 09:33 AM
Efim, very nice. I actually used your site to reorganize my collection of ASTP covers. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge with the cS community. |
LM1 Member Posts: 861 From: New York, NY Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 06-01-2016 11:11 PM
You did a great job on the ASTP Space Cover Website. |
yeknom-ecaps Member Posts: 801 From: Northville MI USA Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 06-04-2016 06:15 PM
Great site and exciting to see some covers I had never seen before. |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 06-11-2016 03:25 PM
Gentlemen, thanks for support and feedback. I just added another section — Soyuz in Guiana, though it might be ridicules subject, but for me — its a piece of history. I will add more ASTP covers in a couple of weeks. |
Antoni RIGO Member Posts: 272 From: Palma de Mallorca, Is. Baleares - SPAIN Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 06-11-2016 04:01 PM
Soyuz in Guiana is not a ridiculous topic, especially if you treat it rigorously.Any Astro subject developed through chronological criteria, fixing major astrophilatelic phases as launches, docking, orbit insertions, landings, etc., can be of real interest. Thanks again for sharing your material with others and I hope to see another subject (Vostochny cosmodrome). |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 06-12-2016 05:53 AM
Thanks Antoni!Actually Vostochny only marked its birth with the first launch. I have a couple of covers with Lomonosov satellite special postmark from Uglegorsk, but it will take time to publish them in my site. |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 07-27-2016 11:17 AM
Just got some covers from Vostochny:
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Antoni RIGO Member Posts: 272 From: Palma de Mallorca, Is. Baleares - SPAIN Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 07-28-2016 01:32 PM
Thanks Efim. Very nice card on the top, and two covers on bottom.Surprisingly for me, not many different covers or cards were produced for this first and historic launch. My addition to your scans: |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 12-08-2016 10:47 AM
I have almost completed to upload my collection. It looks quite a small inventory... When I started to focus on visualization and chronology of events I realized how many gaps there are and how many stuff I am missing. So there is plenty of work for good many years. I would like to thank cS community for sharing the knowledge about various subjects of my interests. I tried to reflect the messages as closely as possible. |
cvrlvr99 Member Posts: 202 From: Arlington, TX Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 12-29-2016 09:08 PM
Yours is an extraordinary work of time, research for the covers and then additionally showing in your background information. Thank you for sharing your passion with us! |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 03-13-2019 12:12 PM
After a blackout of about one year, FIMYCH.com is back in the original domain. The scans of new covers are on the way! |
LM1 Member Posts: 861 From: New York, NY Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 03-13-2019 01:55 PM
I checked out your space cover website again. You did an exceptional job. It is reassuring to see that the future of Space Philately is in good hands because of your efforts and that of many other collectors. Continued good luck. Bill York |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 04-05-2021 11:10 AM
I am back to my collection website of Soviet/Russian astrophilately. FIMYCH.com is alive! |
Ken Havekotte Member Posts: 3615 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-05-2021 11:50 AM
Wow! Very impressive website, Efim, with so many ASTP cover issues of all categories, and I love the site artwork graphics as well.With such a fine collection, Efim, I am honored to see many of my own covers included, even some of my first and early "primitive" rubber stamp cachet covers, along with a few printed ones on the site. But are you sure you want to keep those awkward and/or crudely-done rubber stamp cachet (RSC) covers? Some of those early RSC versions were produced throughout 1974-75 when I was a teenager trying to first dabble with astrophilately. I liked it so much, that even to this day, it's one of my favorite space collecting topics. Let me donate a few others to you that I didn't see, for instance, my first printed cachet cover for the U.S. ASTP launch, however, my brother and I did create another primitive b/w printed cachet for the ASTP Saturn 1B rollout in March 1975, which I see that you already have. That rollout issue was my very first printed space cover, more than 45 years ago. Keep up the great work and I'll be looking forward to your other upcoming space cover categories, I think, mostly Soviet-Russian related. |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 04-05-2021 01:03 PM
Ken, this is one of the best compliments I've ever received!! Your covers though simple, are by no means neglectable — they show the important milestones of the project and are must-have in any ASTP cover collection. Moreover looking at the subject cachet-wise, those are incredibly important as you are one of the "fathers" in this area. Thank you! |
fimych Member Posts: 266 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-19-2023 04:28 PM
I redesigned the Mir page and added some new stuff. Welcome to check. |
Antoni RIGO Member Posts: 272 From: Palma de Mallorca, Is. Baleares - SPAIN Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 05-21-2023 01:56 AM
Thanks Efim.Good job. Your web is always a must for Soviet/Russian spaceflights. |