Project Mercury First Day Cover GUS GRISSOM cover Redstone Art Craft style FDC

Description

If you like space covers, you're well familiar with the beautiful John Glenn cover that Art Craft made for the First Day of Issue of the 4-cent "Project Mercury" stamp, which has a montage of three images: Glenn, a sketch of his capsule orbiting the Earth, and the Atlas rocket being launched.  Thousands and thousands of the covers were printed, and cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the afternoon of his flight on February 20, 1962.
What is not generally known is that in addition to those, Art Craft also shipped out a number of ERROR covers that mistakenly carried a picture of a
REDSTONE
rocket (though it was still labeled as an "Atlas-Mercury.")  These error covers show up on Ebay occasionally, where they are quickly snapped up by collectors.
Of course, Project Mercury didn't begin with John Glenn: before his three orbits there were two ground-breaking suborbital flights, so I decided to run with the idea of the Redstone cachet, and make matching "Project Mercury " first day covers commemorating the flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
(See my other auctions for the Alan Shepard cover.)
For purchase here is the limited-edition
GUS GRISSOM "Project Mercury" cover
, made in the same style as the Art Craft FDC.  It's a genuine vintage "Project Mercury" first day cover, cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the day of the stamp's issue, but with Glenn's portrait replaced with America's second man in space, Air Force pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom.  The rocket has been correctly captioned as a "MERCURY-REDSTONE AT LIFT-OFF" and the commemoration has been changed to "SECOND AMERICAN SUB-ORBITAL SPACE FLIGHT  -  JULY 21, 1961"; aside from that (and my own cachet logo replacing Art Craft's) I made it as similar to the original as possible.
The covers are in great vintage condition (although of course, your cover will not have my Ebay ID splashed across the front.)  One of these will look great displayed beside an Art Craft John Glenn FDC (or especially with one of the rare error covers!)  Contact me with any questions.