Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 175
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ASTRONAUTS.) GLENN, JOHN H.; JR. Two First Day Covers, each Signed, "JHGlenn Jr." The first, commemorating Glenn's visit to President Kennedy in the Oval Office of the White House on February 5, 1962, the date of the postmark, with a cancelled 4-cent "Communications for Peace" stamp. The cachet, showing bust of Glenn in space suit. The second, commemorating Glenn's first successful orbital flight by an American on February 20, 1962, the date of the postmark, with a block of four cancelled 4-cent "Project Mercury" stamps. Each 3 1/2x6 1/2 inches; owner's ink stamp at lower left of first. Np, circa 1962