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posted 02-19-2019 09:23 AM               

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Nice collection, but as a space philatelist for 40 years now I can say that you really have no 'rare' stamps in your collection as seen in the photos, insofar as highly valuable. The ones in stamp album pages in the middle photo look like most are already cancelled (used) examples of foreign space-themed stamps, so those are probably in the $4-$6 range for the set (stamp dealers typically sell these in packets of 50 or 100 as topical themed stamps in glassine envelopes).

The souvenir card at lower left from a stamp show is about $6-$8 (note that the Project Mercury block of stamps are an illustration cancelled with a postmark); the nice Apollo 8 "Earthrise" card is about the same price.

The highest-priced items are the full stamp sheets, with the Apollo 8 6-cent around $18-$20 and the Apollo 11 10-cent a little higher, $21-$22. If you have more stamps, your best bet is to check the annual Scott Co. catalogs of US/world stamps, the internet or eBay for prices.

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posted 02-19-2019 09:37 AM               

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Thank you very much for the information.

I'll try to go through everything and figure out how to get it organized. I just have such a large assortment of so many different types of items that I would like to widdle it down to just what we are going to keep to pass down again.

Are covers that aren't cancelled worth more than a regular cancelled one?

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posted 02-19-2019 09:55 AM               

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Glad to be of help. As far as philatelic covers; there are two types: First Day Covers (FDCs), which are envelopes with a postmark cancel indicating the date the stamp(s) on the cover was issued for the first time; and event/commemorative covers, honoring, for example, the launch of Apollo 11 with a vintage 7/16/1969 postmark cancel or the 25th anniversary of the moon landing with a 7/20/1994 postmark.

And no, if it has a cancel/postmark with a space stamp, it is more valuable, with the space event covers higher, especially if they have astronaut/space manager/engineer signatures. Some rare covers can be worth hundreds depending on the mission and type (i.e. flown or crew-signed 'insurance' covers).