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Chris comes upon them regularly and uses them for event covers like ones he produced for the 40th anniversary.Ĭhris actually collects the 1969 10 cent First Man on the Moon First Day Covers and has quite a collection. How many of the original stamps do you own today? Do you have a stacks of uncut sheets? We own many of the rough thumbnail and more completed sketches and Chris has posted many of these on our website.
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I believe the original is in the archives of the Postal Service or at the National Postal Museum in Washington. Yes, the limited edition art print is of the original painting I did for the stamp. Was it based on the original art you produced for the U.S. (Calle Space Art)įor the 40th anniversary, we understand you have produced a limited edition print of the stamp artwork. The final paintings encompassed all the key elements - the first man stepping on the Moon and our planet Earth.įrom an artistic point of view, knowing now that the lunar module had more gold on the landing gear and pads, I would have painted those in gold.Ĭalle's art print of the First Man on the Moon.
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I went through so many different concept ideas for the stamp and completed sketch after sketch, by the time we chose final sketches we were all confident that the "First Step on the Moon" approach was the correct imagery. If you were designing that stamp again today, would you change anything? I remember when Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, my 8 year old son at the time Chris kept asking, "Where's the stamp? Where's the stamp!?" I had been with the crew during their activities readying for the launch the morning of July 16, 1969, sketching their breakfast and suiting up and knowing that the engraved plates were traveling to the moon with the astronauts was exciting. The design process was kept a secret until not long before the Apollo 11 launch I believe. To mark the 40th anniversary of the 10-cent First Man on the Moon airmail stamp, collectSPACE spoke with Calle and his son Chris, who designed the 1989 $2.40 Apollo 11 20th Anniversary Priority Mail stamp and jointly with his father, the $9.95 and 29 cent Express Mail stamps for the 1994 25th anniversary of the mission.įorty years later, what has it meant to you to design the stamp that honored the first lunar landing?ĭesigning the First Man on the Moon stamp in 1969 was a great honor and especially significant because of my involvement in the NASA Fine Art Program. One of the first eight artists to be selected for the NASA Art Program in 1962, Calle was present for the Apollo 11 astronauts' last few hours before they departed for the Moon, sketching Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins as they donned their spacesuits. The stamp's designer, Paul Calle, had previously created the art for the 1967 U.S. The largest stamp released up to that day, it was produced using an engraved die that was carried to the Moon on-board the Apollo 11 spacecraft. (Calle Space Art)īeyond the covers though, the stamps themselves were special.
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commemorative stamp of all time based on the number saved, which had three million fewer covers requested.Ī rare example of a First Man on the Moon First Day Cover with an original cache by Paul Calle. Nearly 9 million of the covers were processed, surpassing any other stamp release to that date and even beating the 1993 Elvis stamp, the most popular U.S. Postal Service) release the 10-cent First Man on the Moon airmail stamp, and with it came a flood of public requests for "First Day Covers", envelopes postmarked in the city and for the date where the stamp was first introduced. That is because on this day in 1969, with Armstrong and his Apollo 11 crew mates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins present in Washington, DC, did the United States Post Office Department (which just under a year later became what is now the U.S. time zones, at least) that Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface - it was this day 40 years ago, September 9, that many if not most have marked down on their souvenir of the event. While Jis likely the date that most people associate with the first man on the Moon - it being the day (by U.S.