Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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November 19
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed at Oceanus Procellarum and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. The Apollo programme ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968.
In 1928 "Time" magazine presented its cover in colour for the first time. The subject was Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Time was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, who built a highly profitable stable of magazines.
SIGNED BY SEVEN OF THE TWELVE MOONWALKERS
ARMSTRONG (Neil A., 1930-2012, American Astronaut, 1st Man on the Moon), Charles ‘Pete’ CONRAD Jr (1930-1999, American Astronaut, 3rd Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 12), Alan BEAN (born 1932, Astronaut and 4th Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 12), Alan "Al" SHEPARD Jr. (1923-1998, 5th and oldest person to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14), Edgar MITCHELL (1930-2016, American Astronaut, 6th Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14), James ‘Jim’ IRWIN (1930-1991, American Astronaut, 8th Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 15) and Charles DUKE (born 1935, 10th and youngest Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 16)
Official NASA colour reproduction of an artist’s drawing depicting an Apollo Lunar module on the surface of the moon in June 1969, signed by seven of the twelve men who walked on the Moon during the Apollo Space project, NASA stamps on the verso, 10” x 8”, no place, no date circa 1975
38547
PRESENTATION PHOTOS FROM A LIVING GOD
HIROHITO (1901-1989, Emperor of Japan) & his wife Empress NAGAKO
Superb pair of Presentation Portrait Photographs signed in Japanese, which were given to the Canadian Ambassador, (Thomas Clayton DAVIS Ambassador to Japan from June 1954 until March 1957. He also held posts in Australia and Germany), the Emperor and Empress and three quarter length she is wearing traditional Japanese dress and he is wearing a suit, each in sterling silver frames with the Imperial Crest in gold at the head, 9” x 6” in frames 15” x 12”, c. 1938
26100
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