L3103

Celebrate the Century - 1960s

Man walks on the Moon

Collins Cover Announcement

"The Sixfies" 

CELEBRRATE THE CENTURY

Many of us have poignant and vivid memories of the 1960s. It was an almost unbelievable ten years when one considers the impact on our-nation. The fifteen hand painted cachets that I created for the Celebrate the Century 1960s series capture the momentous events and changes that transformed our country. I'm offering this set of fifteen at one cover per month at $11.00 each so that it will be within everyone's hobby budget.

As I list the following subjects that this set includes, just consider how meaningful each one really is. In space, man walked on the moon, and in fiction, the Starship Enterprise cruised the universe in television's Star Trek. In Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War raged, and in Upstate New York, hippies wearing the peace symbol gathered at Woodstock. Our collective social conscience was served by Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream and by the volunteers for President John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps. Technology leaped forward at a dizzying speed with the advent of lasers and the integrated circuit. Big boys drove Ford Mustangs and little girls played with Barbie dolls. In sports, the Green Bay Packers dominated professional football and met the Kansas City Chiefs in the very first Super Bowl, while in baseball Roger Maris was breaking the legendary home run record of Babe Ruth. And the world of music was changed forever when the Beatles arrived in New York City to appear on The Ed

Sullivan Show. What a decade it was!

There are a couple of reasons not to pass up this fleeting opportunity. First — the cachet design and hand painting make these covers the absolute finest produced by any cachetmaker for the Celebrate the Century set. Second — if the subjects mentioned above evoke special memories for you, it will prove a nice series with personal significance for your collection. Third — the individual covers are ones that offer much potential for increased value in the years ahead. It will be most interesting to see what the Man Walks the Moon, Star Trek, Vietnam War, Super Bowl I, Roger Maris, and Beatles covers will bring at auction a few years from now — not to mention the others in this set.

Please note that I have relatively few sets available. So, if you wish to sign up, do send back the order form within the next few days. Your first cover — The Beatles — is ready to ship immediately upon receipt of your order. I will then invoice and ship at the rate of one cover per month. Please note that, if you choose, I can send two per month. Due to limited supply, I can only offer one set per collector — and only to those individuals receiving this announcement.

From a cachetmaker's viewpoint, this set of fifteen exceeded my own expectations. It's the 1960s! I hope you will sign up for a set and give these cachets a place in your collection. You'll be glad you did. Thanks.

Winter 2026 Mail Sale Commentary 

Lot 29 L3103 — Man Walks on the Moon — Neil A. Armstrong — "The EaRie Has Landed" — 9/17/99

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the Commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps and made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space in 1966.

In 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon. After the lunar module Eagle successfully touched down, he said, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." The next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module Eagle Spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Apollo Command Module Columbia. When Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." President John F. Kennedy's 1961 commitment to put a man on the moon was fulfilled when the lunar module

Eagle landed on the surface of the moon, and astronauts Neil Armstrong and B1177 Aldrin walked on lunar soil. Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon, and President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979, and with his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

This special cover has a stamp from the Celebrate the Century "Sixties and Man on the Moon" sheet of 15 different stamps. The stamp shows an imprint of man's first footprint on the moon. The hand-painted cachet has a portrait of Armstrong, a rendition of him descending to the surface of the moon, and an illustration of the splashdown of the capsule with  three parachutes. This is a first-time offering in a mail sale.