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Topic: CCCP Licensing Group Soviet decals and pins?
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Rambler Typhoon
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Registered: Dec 2015
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posted 07-24-2023 10:01 PM
   
I don't have them in hand yet, but I'm getting some stickers and pins for Soviet era missions and I'd like to learn more about their background. The seller I got them from sold space patches and pins at Edwards shuttle landings in the 80s and early 90s, but couldn't remember specifics about where they bought them. They had US mission pins made by Pinnacle, but the construction of those pins seems pretty different from the Soviet ones. Notably the Soviet pins all appear to be soft enamel rather than hard enamel on the US mission pins. The stickers clearly seem to be US-made, apparently with an official license by the "CCCP Licensing Group" in North Hollywood. The pins have the Glavkosmos logo stamped on the back, similar to what's shown on the stickers. Does anyone remember this company back in the day? I'm guessing the pins also came from there, but I'd like some verification on that. And if they did come from them, were they something produced specifically for sale outside of the Soviet Union, or were they importing them from there. These pins all have a single stud back with a military clutch, and the Soviet pins usually see have a backing similar to a safety pin.  |
OV-105
Member Posts: 902
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 07-28-2023 02:50 PM
I can’t remember the name of the company that did them. I have some of the patches and decals. They made a lot of space pins. They also made the astronaut class pins. His space flight pins had NASA and the launch date on the back of the pins. I remember the guy who did this got into a messy divorce and gave all his product to another vendor who worked the shuttle landings on the East Shore Viewing site. It was in the early 1990’s and he got license to make and sell them. I believe he ran some ads in the early issues of Final Frontier magazine if you remember that one. |
Russian
Member Posts: 515
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-28-2023 03:43 PM
It was a family business. I remember them but not the name of the company. All their products were US made. They produced everything to sell in the Soviet pavilion at Paris Air Show 1989. Glavkosmos let them using its logo.Glavkosmos was responsible for Soviet Space exhibition that year (Glavkosmos was 13th Directorate of the Ministry of General Machine Building - Soviet Space and Rocketry Ministry). |
lucspace
Member Posts: 510
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 07-28-2023 04:21 PM
Space Commerce Corporation. From the Washington Post (September 6, 1989): Granted rights to sell these by the Soviet space agency Glavkosmos, Space Commerce Corp. has found Cold War mistrust and trade tensions standing in its way. To date its sales have been limited to desktop knickknacks for space aficionados.But it is pressing on, gambling that better times lie ahead as relations between the United States and Soviet Union improve. "Space is so expensive that we've got to start treating it like a share-the-ride program," said Art Dula, the company's president and promoter of U.S.-Soviet cooperation in space. |
Rambler Typhoon
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Registered: Dec 2015
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posted 07-28-2023 09:14 PM
Thanks for the great information! I had come across information on Art Dula signing a licensing deal related to launch services with his Space Commerce Corporation in early 1989, but I hadn't seen anything about them creating souvenirs until this article. Through another connection, a fellow space collector had noted the Paris Air Show connection earlier today, but this adds a little more detail. |
Rambler Typhoon
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Registered: Dec 2015
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posted 07-28-2023 10:15 PM
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Originally posted by OV-105:
His space flight pins had NASA and the launch date on the back of the pins.
Is Pinnacle Designs the company you're referring to with NASA mission logos? That seems to be the main pin vendor by the later 80s from what I've seen. |
Russian
Member Posts: 515
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-29-2023 06:08 AM
Space Commerce Corporation just invited the team to sell Soviet space souvenirs in Soviet pavilion.Art Dula dealt directly with Glavkosmos to officially have their authorization to use Glavcosmos logo on the souvenirs. |
Rambler Typhoon
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posted 07-29-2023 09:55 AM
Great info! Thanks. |
Rambler Typhoon
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posted 07-29-2023 01:35 PM
I have the pins now. Pretty nicely done, I think There are a few I can't ID the imagery used.I like this Buran image, which I hadn't initially realized has snowflakes in it. Neat blizzard connection. I can't find this emblem in an image search, though. What is the source of this logo?  
This appears to be an Interkosmos 20th anniversary?  I can't ID this. This may be a mangled translation, but I came up with: "It is alive! Performance in space." Is that even close?  |
Russian
Member Posts: 515
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-29-2023 02:20 PM
INTERKISMOS
20th anniversary
The second pin:
International cooperation in space Buran pin. Its design didn’t come from the Soviet Union. Just American vision... Five stars could symbolise five spaceplanes of the program. |
Rambler Typhoon
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posted 07-29-2023 03:04 PM
Thanks again for the information. Is the imagery on the Interkosmos anniversary and International Cooperation in Space pins from actual Soviet designs? |
Russian
Member Posts: 515
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-30-2023 01:50 AM
Yes.These two pins are copy of Soviet pins. |
Rambler Typhoon
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posted 07-30-2023 09:38 AM
Thank you! |
to-the-stars
Member Posts: 19
From: Canada
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 08-03-2023 02:21 PM
May I suggest the theory regarding the unusual Buran pin that it was issued not for Paris Air Show of 1989 (it's a summer event) but later for the Christmas or New Year (holiday highly celebrated in Russia).This can explain snowflakes. Also, Buran very resembles Christmas Tree (or its Russian variant New Year Tree with the traditional red star on the top). Two other shown bronze colored pins are replicas of two sides of known Soviet medal. The one with the inscription "International Cooperation in Space" depicts Soviet missions with broad international participation: VEGA (mission to Venus and Halley's Comet), Salyut-6 or Salyut-7 orbital station and "Kosmos" launcher used to put in orbit "Interkosmos" satellites. |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 803
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 08-04-2023 06:05 AM
Buran means snowstorm. This also could explain the snowflakes. |
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