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All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All covers are the #6 size as collected in the USA unless otherwise noted.
All autographs are genuine.
MOST of these covers are one each available, and each cover is described fully so that you know what you are buying.
Most stamp(s) on these covers are described, if not they can be any commemorative or definitive issue.
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LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

PRIMESC4	0100	$35.00	02/26/1966
USS BOXER (LPH-4), APOLLO AS-201 (APOLLO 3) PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for the 1st Apollo unmanned flight, 02/26/1966, with PM machine cancel on a 5 cent George Washington definitive stamp, with blue BECK printed cachet (#B622) for the Apollo AS-201 recovery, cachet reads: "First Apollo Unmanned Flight, Atlantic Fleet, U.S. Navy Recovery Force". Rubber stamp address.

PRIMESC4	0400	$25.00	11/09/1967
USS BENNINGTON, APOLLO AS-501 (APOLLO 4) PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for this unmanned flight, 11/09/1967, with AM machine cancel on a 5 cent Flag/savings bond stamp, with purple Navy rubber stamp cachet for the Apollo AS-501 recovery.

PRIMESC4	0900	$12.00	03/13/1969
USS GUADALCANAL, APOLLO 9 PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for the flight of Astronauts McDivitt, Scott & Schweickart, 03/13/1969, with PM hand cancel (Type I cancel where the word "Guadalcanal" is at the bottom of the cancel)... (not all of the ships name and date is readable) on a 6 cent Flag stamp, with black Navy rubber stamp cachet for the Apollo 9 recovery.

PRIMESC4	1020	$20.00	05/26/1969
USS PRINCETON, SPECIAL DOUBLE CANCELLED COVER FROM THE APOLLO 10 PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for the flight of Astronauts Stafford, Young and Cernan, An Apollo 8 First Manned Flight to the Moon 6 cent stamp (#1371) First Day Cover with Houston Texas 05/05/1969 first day of issue machine cancel, that has another Apollo 8 stamp affixed besides the existing stamp. The USS Princeton machine cancel of 05/26/1969 was applied to the same two stamps for the Apollo 10 recovery. Both cancels are clearly readable and do not touch each other as the first day of issue cancel was applied low on the stamps and the USS Princeton cancel was applied in the normal machine cancel position. Cover has a multicolored Apollo 8 FLEETWOOD engraved printed cachet of the Apollo 8 astronauts, the Apollo 8 emblem and a view of the cratered Moon with the Apollo 8 capsule over it.(Very few covers were prepared this way). IMAGE

PRIMESC4	1030	$12.00	05/26/1969
USS PRINCETON, APOLLO 10 PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for the flight of Astronauts Stafford, Young and Cernan, 05/26/1969, with AM machine cancel on a 2 cent difinitive stamp and 4 cent Olympics stamp (NOTE:the USS Princeton cancel is readable but not entirely as part of it falls on the affixed 2 cent stamp), with purple Navy rubber stamp cachet for the Apollo 10 recovery. rubber stamp address. IMAGE

PRIMESC4	1230	$22.00	11/24/1969
USS HORNET, SPECIAL DOUBLE CANCELLED COVER FROM THE APOLLO 12 PRIME RECOVERY SHIP for the second Moonlanding Flight of Astronauts Conrad, Bean & Gordon, This is an Apollo 11 First Man on Moon 10 cent stamp first Day Cover with Washington DC 09/09/1969 first day of issue hand cancel with commemorative "Moon Landing July 20, 1969" marking. A 6 cent Apollo 8 stamp (#1371) was applied to the cover to receive the USS Hornet cancel for the Apollo 12 recovery, however the USS Hornet 11/24/1969 machine cancel was applied to the already cancelled Apollo 11 stamp and the Apollo 8 stamp received a small pen marking. The USS Hornet cancellation is light but readable, cover has the purple Navy rubber stamp cachet for the Apollo 12 recovery and a small rubber stamp address. (Very few of these were prepared).

PRIMESC4	1780Q	$4.00	12/19/1972
USS TICONDEROGA, APOLLO 17 PRIME RECOVERY SHIP, for the sixth Moonlanding Flight of Astronauts Cernan, Evans & Schmitt, 12/19/1972, with AM hand cancel, with official violet U.S. Navy Pacific Recovery Force rubber stamp cachet. IMAGE

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