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Topic: EB: Apollo 17 Schmitt signed items
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davidcwagner
Member Posts: 1065
From: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-18-2024 02:01 PM
   
Apollo 17 items signed by Harrison Schmitt now listed on eBay.
Added SERIES 1, 2, 3,Spaceshots album/autographs
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bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 281
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 10-19-2024 05:03 AM
I yet to understand why sellers are asking such inflated prices for Harrison Schmitt signed items. Back in the day when we received autographs thru the mail Schmitt was one of the best signers and never refused a request as was the entire Apollo 17 crew. |
Axman
Member Posts: 605
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 10-19-2024 06:47 AM
If it (split boulder) had been a philatelic item (just needed a stamp and a postmark) I'd have snapped it up at that price. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4599
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 10-19-2024 11:10 AM
I contacted Jack Schmitt directly about 12 years ago. He freely and happily responded by kindly signing a copy of his book, But a follow up request for an autograph was declined by an assistant with the comment..... "while he will gladly sign his book, he no longer signs autographs.)For the record, I offered to pay him a fee equal to that charged at the Novaspace Private Signing in 2005, but he could not be persuaded. I think he makes the occasional exception for charitable events, but I suspect his recent autograph policy is the cause of the hike in the price of his signature. It is my understanding that Novaspace have asked him a number of times for further private signings but he has declined each time.
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Bob M
Member Posts: 1951
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-20-2024 11:04 AM
The Jack Schmitt autographed "Split rock" litho that David is offering was mine and I got it in a trade and then later sold it on Novaspace's (no commission) Astro-auction.It appears that Dr. Schmitt completely stopped autographing in the early 2000's after giving collectors a few months to mail in material that he graciously signed. But that window of opportunity closed after a short while and, as David found out, Schmitt has provided no autographs for at least 20 years now. Those he signed "for the future" have mostly been stashed away in private collections (as mine have that I got during that window of opportunity), so the pool of high quality Schmitt autographed items are hard to find available, so they do have a fairly high cost. |
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