Lot 61019 – COSMOS SPACE 1933-2018 THE DR. PECHANEK EXHIBITION COLLECTION ON MANNED (PILOTED) SPACE FLIGHTS OF THE SOVIET UNION & RUSSIA

1933-2018 THE DR. PECHANEK EXHIBITION COLLECTION ON MANNED (PILOTED) SPACE FLIGHTS OF THE SOVIET UNION & RUSSIA

Space: Huge collection in 3 thick volumes compiled over decades starting with forerunners, rocket attempts up to most recent flights to 2011, including many important covers and some important stamp issues as well, noted Sangerhausen ‘D’ concentration camp rocket production, Mexico 1961 Mac Allen rocket mail cover with red overprint, many covers with Cosmonaut signatures (incl. diverse of these covers with Mezdunarodnaja Kniga certificates) and from the 1970’ies on with many space mail (cosmic post) covers taken to the station and / or signed by crew members (some are with signatures also of foreign crew members (GDR, Hungary, Vietnam, Austria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Mongolia, Romania, France, India, Syria, etc.) who have accompanied the Soviet (later Russian) crews, cover of Cosmonaut Viehböck taken to the MIR station (Soyuz 13), etc., etc., for comparison only there are a few forgeries included which are marked as fakes, all in all 210 + exhibition pages, collections like this are rarely offered intact.

This collection was awarded many national and international medals