posted 03-08-2015 11:21 AM               

Several I feel look good and others concern me. So, I'm going to post them up here and ask for the advice of the group.

This is a card signed by Gordon Cooper. This one looks pretty good to my eyes. My understanding is the card itself is a 1963 Topps Popsicle Back.

Do you think the signature is authentic?

Here is another one of my early eBay purchases. This is a KSC Vistors Complex tour ticket from May 1999.

This ticket appears to be signed by both Scott Carpenter and Pete Conrad. To my eyes, they look like good signature... but again, I simply don't know for sure. I'd love to hear some other opinions.

This is an interest purchase of mine from back in the day. Again, bought on eBay in the early 2000s. It was purchased with the description of a signed B&W 8x10 photo. What I received was a photo that appears to be a cheap copy on very thin photo paper. Probably printed from a home computer. The paper is slightly ticker than normal printer paper and has a light gloss to it... the photo is quite grainy and towards the bottom the color changes suggesting whoever printed it must have ran out of ink. Had I had the sense I have now, I would have returned it for that reason alone.

That said, the image is clearly hand signed using a sharpie type pen. The ink actually bleeds slightly through the paper and is visible from the back. Despite the quality of the photo itself, the signature looks decent based on what I have seen of others in the past.

What do you think?

posted 03-15-2015 02:52 PM               

The first is an Ed Gibson signed cover. I have no reason to think it's fake as his auto is super common... but since I didn't get it directly from him I just wanted a second opinion. I believe this autograph to be 100% authentic.

This next one is a little odd piece in my opinion. This pieces is slightly larger than a standard piece of computer paper and is on thicker stock. It has sketch images of the Apollo 12 crew and printed signatures.

Again, this is one of my early 2000s online purchases before I knew anything. Below the pre-printed Alan Bean signature, is the autograph of his backup Jim Irwin. The Irwin appears to be authentic to my eyes based on examples I have seen. But, again, I'm not an expert with his stuff so I'd like to get someone else's opinion.

posted 03-15-2015 03:21 PM               

The piece itself is a little odd. The signature does appear to be hand signed in ink and does not match any auto pen patters I have seen. It appears that the signature was on a note card and that card was later cut and attached to a MR-4 FDC.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this piece.

posted 03-21-2015 05:04 PM               

This is a FDC commemorative the water survival training of some of the 1978 astronaut class. This cover contains 14 (possibly 15) signatures and I'd love to know what you think of the authenticity.

This cover has signatures of Mike Mullane, Steve Nagel, George Nelson, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Sally Ride, Dick Scobee, Rhea Seddon, Bewster Shaw, Loren Shriver, Bob Stewart, Kathryn Sullivan, Norm Thagard, and James van Hoften. The spaces for David Walker and Donald Williams are crossed out which makes that part of the cover quite ugly unfortunately. But, it also appears that David Walker may have signed and then been crossed out.

I would love to get some ideas about the authenticity of this piece and if it is authentic, what it might be worth. I have no interest in selling it, just kind of curious on that part.

posted 03-21-2015 05:55 PM               

At the time of the cover signing, the 15 (altogether 35) shuttle astronaut candidates were in evaluation training for a year(+) at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

When the cover was posted on July 31, 1978, the new candidates would all be eligible for an assignment on a future space shuttle flight crew nearly a year later in August 1979.

Of the 15 represented here, six of them are no longer with us (Scobee, Onizuka, Resnik, Walker, Ride, and Nagel).

posted 03-22-2015 09:51 PM               

Here is another cover I purchased at the same time from the same seller. Again, I have always thought it to be good but I wanted another opinion.

This one contains signatures of Frederick Hauck, Steven Hawley, Jeffery Hoffman, Jon McBride and the late Ronald McNair.

posted 03-27-2015 10:01 PM               

Here is a 3x5 unlined post card with a signature of Ed White. It does not conform to any autopen that I have seen. What do you think.