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Topic: 385576366993: Apollo 11 patch
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J Blackburn
Member Posts: 297
From: Riner
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 05-03-2023 07:21 AM
   
Does anyone know anything about this Apollo 11 Patch eBay listing 385576366993? It has a current bid of $64 among three bidders. To me it looks to be a crude manufactured modern day patch. I have never seen it before and was curious if it was rare or just a bidding war.  |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4523
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-03-2023 12:44 PM
Dreadful. Looks like some kind of "knock off" from the far east. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 2076
From: Fairfax, VA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-03-2023 01:33 PM
The eagle slipped, dropped the olive branch, and is about to land on its tuckus. So bad! |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1413
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 05-03-2023 02:23 PM
Terrible and amateurish. The only thing they got right was the '11' instead of 'II' which some take as a '2' and not eleven. This site has all the known variations of the patch. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50575
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-03-2023 02:31 PM
Has anyone ever produced a quality commemorative featuring the original concept for the Apollo 11 patch? It would seem to be rather straightforward given that the art exists on the front of the Apollo 11 Robbins medallion. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 746
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 05-03-2023 04:03 PM
Mike Collins admitted to completely plagiarizing the eagle from a National Geographic, but what's more disturbing is that he confessed to messing up the Earth's phase in the emblem. NASA insisted that the olive branch be moved to the eagle's claws. I think Mike initially wanted it to be a bottle of wine, but I could be wrong about that. |
J Blackburn
Member Posts: 297
From: Riner
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 05-04-2023 01:54 PM
This crude patch ended among 3 bidders posting 17 bids for a final sell of $64.00. I am literally scratching my head. But, to each is their own and I hope the winning bidder is happy and that is all that matters. We all see different when it comes to collecting. |
hbw60
Member Posts: 305
From:
Registered: Aug 2018
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posted 05-04-2023 04:39 PM
In some cases, a flawed item can become far more valuable than its standard equivalent. For example, if the US Mint releases a coin with an error, it can be worth thousands of dollars. Or if a Star Wars action figure is released with an incorrect label or accessory, it can often fetch a higher price than the later corrected version.And because of this, I think certain collectors start to imagine potential value in worthless flawed designs. This patch is a perfect example. Obviously, it's a knockoff patch that most of us wouldn't want in our collections, even for free. However, it's also undeniably true that this is an "extremely rare patch that features a design which wasn't used for the mission, and which NASA has never released to the public". Some people really gravitate toward that type of thing, not realizing that the same could be said for any knockoff item. I could draw a picture of the spacecraft today, and call it "unused concept art from Apollo that NASA has never published, and there's only one known to exist in the world". Some people really do fall for that kind of hyperbole. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 599
From: Holland, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 06-09-2023 03:56 PM
You are 100% correct. I have two prototype patches from STS-103 that should never have been out in the public. I found them from an actual NASA Gift Shop. The manager didn't know what they were and I bought two of them. Long story short, I stayed in contact with him and researched what they actually were and told him about what I had found. He then sent the other 17 he had (he had 19 total with the two I bought) and they were destroyed as they should have been. So, my two are likely the only two in existence of these prototypes. This was years ago. We're talking back in the 2010 timeframe. Their value then was zilch because they were just prototypes. But today? Who knows. |
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