VINTAGE LIMITED ED. (# 0644) DISCOVERY CHANNEL PEWTER REPLICA - LIBERTY BELL 7 - $300 - (Bartlesville, OK)

I AM OFFERING, IN VERY GOOD PRE-OWNED AND DISPLAYED CONDITION (VERY CLEAN PRE-OWNED AND DISPLAYED EXAMPLE. DETAILED PEWTER REPLICA OF THE U.S. MERCURY SPACECRAFT THAT WAS NAMED "LIBERTY BELL 7". THIS RARE 4" TALL LIMITED EDITION (# 0644) OFFERING WAS DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL AND IS OFTEN REFERED TO AS BEING A PAPERWEIGHT SINCE THE PEWTER REPLICA ITSELF IS MOUNTED ON A MARBLE BASE, BUT I DO NOT AGREE WITH THAT REFERENCE), A VERY HARD TO FIND LIMITED EDITION PEWTER REPLICA OF THE "LIBERTY BELL 7". ADDITIONAL DETAILS REGARDING THIS VERY SPECIAL SPACECRAFT ARE ATTACHED BELOW: Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was named Liberty Bell 7 and piloted by astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom.

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