Tuesday, November 15, 2011

How much are original mission patches from Nasa worth?

I have rare, original, silkscreened, mission patches, on fireproof fiberglass cloth, that were made for Nasa starting back in the 1960's.


- Skylab1 1973


- Skylab 2 1973


- Apollo 2 july 1969


- Apolllo 8 1968


- Apollo 10 1969


- Apollo 12 1970


- Apollo 15 1971


- Apollo 16 1972


- Appollo 17 1972


- Apollo and Russian space station link up|||See reference 1:


"Beta cloth patches





Beta cloth was manufactured by Owens-Corning Fiberglass of Ashton, RI, under contract to NASA. Owens-Corning in turn subcontracted the printing on its Beta cloth to Screen Print Corp., of Coventry, Rhode Island. The patch designs were silk-screened (using hand-mixed pigments from Roma Color of Fall River, MA) onto beta cloth 12 at a time, with a separate printing for each color. Screen Print Corp. also printed the NASA logo, the American flag (for crew wear), and crew name tags onto Beta cloth."





You might check www.astro-auction.com for comparable items; signed patches tend to command $200 and up. One uncut Skylab I patch on beta cloth went for $25 on "eBay" recently (reference 2).|||Too bad you don't have a Friendship 7 patch. I hear they are selling for $500,000.|||check ebay, both current and completed auctions, to get some idea.|||My suggestion is to check out eBay. A professor of mine collects those and always talks about getting them on eBay.

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