Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
(ASTRONAUTS--PROJECT MERCURY.) Color Photograph Signed by each of the 7 Project Mercury astronauts, group portrait showing the astronauts wearing flight gear with a USAF fighter plane in the background. Signed vertically in the image above the relevant portrait. 8x10 inches; mounted to board cut to size, slight fading to Shepard signature, owner's blind stamp at top (not affecting signatures). Np, [1960s-75]
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Scott Carpenter Gordon Cooper John Glenn Gus Grissom Wally Schirra Alan Shepard Deke Slayton.
From the collection of USAF Colonel Frank L. Mahan, who was the anesthesiologist in the medical rescue team assigned to the Mercury and Gemini missions.