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SPACE & AVIATION MEMORABILIA AUCTION
10:00 AM PT - Apr 16th, 2009

offered by
REGENCY-SUPERIOR, LTD.

229 N. Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63108-1505
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Wednesday & Thursday, April 15-16th (9am-5pm) at the Regency-Superior Beverly Hills Gallery, 9478 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 200, 2nd Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 - Tel: (310) 553-5475

622 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
1 Lot 1

1942 'AFRIKACORPS ASTRONOMISCHER MESSTRUP' COVER
Rare special unit 'Africa Corps' cover sent by the 'astronom...

250
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350
2 Lot 2

1948 CLYDE TOMBAUGH & CARL SAGAN SIGNED COVER
Highly attractive first day issue cacheted cover signed by b...

200
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300
3 Lot 3

c.1960-90s CLYDE TOMBAUGH SIGNED COVER GROUP
Wonderful lot containing 12 autographed covers by Clyde Tomb...

600
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800
4 Lot 4

1962-73 USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPERS & MAPS
Contains four USGS professional papers and two USGS maps. Th...

250
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350
5 Lot 5

c.1973-97 CLYDE TOMBAUGH COVER GROUPING
Contains three covers and one 3x5" presentation card signed ...

300
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400
6

1987 ASTRONOMY THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF THE MOON
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348. softbound 11...

200
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300
7 Lot 7

1990 FLOWN SOLAR CELLS FROM ORIGINAL HUBBLE
Encased in 3.5x3.5"x1" clear Lucite block, this 1.5" square ...

750
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1,000
8 Lot 8

c.1991 CLYDE TOMBAUGH AUTOGRAPHED GROUPING
Consists of five identical 8"x10" Black & White autographed ...

200
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300
9 Lot 9

1993 ASTRONOMY AUTOGRAPHED HUBBLE POSTER
Complete crew of STS-61, first mission to service the Hubble...

200
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300
10 Lot 10

1933 'CENTURY OF PROGRESS' BALLOON PIECE
Rectangular piece of this famous balloon, 3¼x5", PLUS Aug. 5...

200
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300
11 Lot 11

1934 JEAN PICCARD'S STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON FLIGHT
Extraordinary group of memorabilia items from the historic f...

1,000
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1,500
12 Lot 12

1976 'ATMOSAT AMERICA' BALLOON MAIL
Cacheted #10 envelope cancelled April 12, 1976, at Eden, TX....

125
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175
13 Lot 13

1980 'DOUBLE EAGLE IV' FLIGHT COVER
Flown cover on balloon launched from Fountain Valley, CA on ...

125
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175
14 Lot 14

1925 AIRSHIP U.S.S. SHENANDOAH GIRDER FROM CRASH
Piece of girder, 7½ long, from ill-fated airship with notari...

800
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1,100
15 Lot 15

1928-32 TWO ZEPPELIN BOOKS
First is 1932 'Zeppelin Weltfahrten' cigarette card book com...

250
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350
16 Lot 16

1929 ZEPPELIN ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT POCKET WATCH
Hefty 2 diameter pocket watch with black face and gold numer...

400
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600
17 Lot 17

1930s LARGE DURALUMIN BOX GIRDER
Big 32 piece of girder that came from Joe Bennett who worked...

2,000
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2,500
18 Lot 18

1930s DZR GROUND SERVICE PLATE
Meissen porcelain DZR 10¾ plate made for Zeppelin ground ser...

1,000
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1,500
19 Lot 19

1930 AKRON AIRDOCK DURALUMIN PIGGYBANK
Marvelous piece of Akron memorabilia, 7¼x2½x2½ piggybank mad...

750
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1,000
20 Lot 20

1930s DZR GROUND SERVICE PLATE
Meissen porcelain DZR 8 plate made for Zeppelin ground servi...

600
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850
21 Lot 21

1930s ZEPPELIN METAL BADGE
Original 2½x1½" metal badge with pin & clasp. Aging but no p...

500
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750
22 Lot 22

1930s AIRSHIP AKRON PENNANT
Spectacular multicolored 28" pennant honoring 'U.S. Navy Akr...

400
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600
23 Lot 23

1930s LZ127 PATCH
Elliptical shaped cloth patch with gold thread against black...

300
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400
24 Lot 24

1930 ST. HUBERT AIRFIELD AIRSHIP R100 PENNANT
Sold for only one day at the airfield in Montreal for the fi...

250
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350
25 Lot 25

1933 GRAF ZEPPELIN FLIGHT COVER SIGNED BY VON ECKEN
Century of Progress Chicago to Seville Spain flight cover fr...

200
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300
26 Lot 26

1933 GRAF ZEPPELIN FLIGHT COVER
Century of Progress Zeppelin flight cover, Chicago to Sevill...

200
-
300
27 Lot 27

1936 HINDENBURG LZ129 LAKEHURST PENNANT
Very scarce 28½" pennant celebrating airship Hindenburg's ar...

600
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850
28 Lot 28

1937 DZR SPOON FROM HINDENBURG CRASH
Phenomenal piece of Hindenburg crash memorabilia, table spoo...

3,500
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4,500
29 Lot 29

1957-65 CHARLES ROSENDAHL SIGNED BOOK
'Ships in the Sky' hardbound, 1957, book by John Toland with...

250
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350
30 Lot 30

1833 FEUERWERKSCORPS-KOMMANDO LETTER
One of the earliest postal history items related to rocketry...

1,000
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1,500
31 Lot 31

c.1930 MAX VALIER AUTOGRAPHED LITHO
Black & white 6"x8.5" litho of the Austrian born inventor & ...

750
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1,000
32 Lot 32

1935 LETTER FROM VIENNA 'FEUERWERKSANSTALT'
Long two sided 8"x10" handwritten letter with censor marking...

200
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300
33 Lot 33

1940s VIENNA 'FEUERWERKSANSTALT' LETTER
Scarce handwritten letter from the Vienna Feuerwerksanstalt ...

200
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300
34 Lot 34

1928 'MIT RAKETENKRAFT INS WELTNALL' BY GAIL
First printing, hardbound with black & red on yellow pictori...

200
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300
35 Lot 35

1933-92 GERMAN ROCKET SCIENTIST GROUPING
Lot contains 14 signed items, two signed 2"x2" display sheet...

300
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400
36 Lot 36

1933-57 RAKETENFLUG-VINTAGE MAGAZINE
April 1933 edition (No. 8) of this first rocket magazine in ...

250
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350
37 Lot 37

1940s GERMAN V-1 ROCKET PIECES
Group of five pieces of V-1 recovered in Great Britain. Size...

300
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400
38 Lot 38

1940s VINTAGE V-2 INJECTION VALVES
Group of three injection valves from the V-2 combustion cham...

200
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300
39 Lot 39

1940s PEENEMUNDE HAP & HVP BADGES (x2)
Pair of vintage badges from the World War II German V2 rocke...

200
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300
40 Lot 40

1941 ARMY FIREWORKS SCHOOL COVER
Rare Feldpost cover with silent postmark in black & 'Heeres-...

250
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350
41 Lot 41

1943 V-2 RELATED DOCUMENT FROM KARLSHAGEN
Baukeitung der Luftwaffe' V-2 related document. Very scarce ...

750
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1,000
42 Lot 42

1943 HAP 11 INCOMING COVER
Handwritten letter plus original cover sent to 'HAP 11'(Heim...

250
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350
43 Lot 43

c.1944 PEENEMUNDE DOCUMENT
Electromechanische Werke' document (camouflage name for rock...

750
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1,000
44 Lot 44

1944 HEIMAT ARTILLERIE PARK 11 DOCUMENT
Rare 'HAP 11' document with red & blue handstamps & numerous...

750
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1,000
45 Lot 45

1944 MUNSTER LAGER COVER FROM NEBEL-ERSATZ REGIMEN
Scarce V-2 related cover dated 13.5.1944. Very fine.

250
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350
46 Lot 46

1945 WASSERBAU-VERSUCHSANSTALT KOCHELSEE DOC'T
Rare document from 'WVA' where Peenemunde rocket work was 'o...

750
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1,000
47 Lot 47

1962-79 GERMAN ROCKET SCIENTIST LOT
This head-turning lot features 200 autographed covers by Ger...

500
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750
48 Lot 48

1955 USA FLOWN AEROBEE MEGACYCLE
One of the earliest flown artifacts from the United States S...

1,500
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2,500
49

1960-82 CAPE CANAVERAL COVER HOARD
Large holding of more than 4600 covers from America's premie...

1,300
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1,800
50

1960s WALLOPS ISLAND COVER HOARD
Huge offering of more than 3000 covers representing events f...

1,000
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1,500
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