?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WITH LETTERS FROM NEIL ARMSTRONG'S MOTHER (ASTRONAUTS--APOLLO 11.) First Day Cover, Signed by the prime crew members and Norman Rockwell, whose 1969 painting, Behind Apollo 11, is reproduced in color on the cover. Each signed near the relevant portrait (left to right: "Neil A[rmstron]g," "Buzz Aldrin," "sincerely / Norman / Rockwell," and "M[ichael]Collins"). With a 10-cent air mail "First Man on the Moon" postage stamp, cancelled in Washington on the date the stamp was issued, September 9, 1969. 4x9½ inches; collector has neatly written a caption and his mailing address along lower edge. [Vp, 1971]
With--Eight items: Viola Louise Armstrong (2). ALsS by mother of Neil Armstrong, to the collector, concerning cover in the present lot: ". . . It is amazing . . . how much the astronaut's features look so much like our Neil's. . . ." Together 6 pages, 8vo, "Mrs. Stephen K. Armstrong" stationery. Wapakoneta, 19 February 1971; 7 March 1972 • Norman Rockwell. Fragment of typed letter, unsigned, offering to sign the envelope, including only letterhead and first few lines. 4x5¾ inches, personal stationery. Stockbridge, 5 January 1971 • Typed letter from Neil Armstrong's secretary, returning the signed cover and listing mailing addresses of Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. 1 page, 4to, "National Aeronautics and Space Administration" stationery. Washington, 11 May 1971 • Group of 4 large mailing envelopes, each addressed to collector and with return address of one of signers. Each 13x10 inches. Vp, January-June 1971 [from postmarks].
