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Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 Insurance Cover

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Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 Insurance Cover

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Auction Date:2018 Dec 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
A superb example of one of Eugene A. Cernan’s Apollo 17 insurance covers, 6.5 x 3.5, bearing a mission cachet and "NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Stamp Club" text. Signed in black felt tip by the entire crew as "Gene Cernan," "Jack Schmitt," and "Ron Evans." The obverse bears Gene Cernan's official "Insurance Cover" hand-stamp personally applied by him in 2009, and on its back his official "Eugene A. Cernan Space Collection" hand-stamp also affixed by him then. This particular cover bears serial number "13," along with three postmarks later personally acquired by Cernan dated December 7th of 1992, 2002, and 2007. In fine condition.

One of the very rare and extremely desirable Apollo 17 insurance covers from mission commander (and last man on the moon) Gene Cernan's personal space collection. This is one of only 250 Apollo 17 insurance covers in existence believed to have ever been specifically-certified as insurance covers (and by Gene Cernan himself, via his serially-numbered certificates). Each certificate's unique serial number matches the serial number appearing on its affixed insurance cover. Each cover, in-turn, also bears Cernan's own "Insurance Cover" hand-stamp that he personally applied to each cover when releasing them from his collection during 2009, along with his personally-applied "Eugene A. Cernan Space Collection" hand-stamp on their versos.

As only 250 Apollo 17 insurance covers exist in the world specifically certified as such, Apollo 17 insurance covers such as this example are likely the single rarest insurance cover of the entire Apollo insurance cover series. This cover also includes a separate informational certificate prepared for the covers in July 2018. Very few insurance covers for the Apollo 17 mission exist, as the crew wanted to avoid any philatelic controversy spurred by the Apollo 15 flown ‘Sieger’ postal cover scandal that same year. As such, only Cernan and his Command Module Pilot Ron Evans signed the covers shortly before launch, whereas lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt signed them after the mission (and likely the chief reason the covers were not postmarked on the date of launch).

Held by mission commander Cernan in his personal space collection for almost four decades after the mission, this is one of the most desirable and attractive insurance covers from any Apollo mission!