^Lot 396 Mercury 7

Fantastic vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Mercury 7 astronauts with a model of a rocket, inscribed in black ink across the top of the photo in an unknown hand, “To Mrs. Cynthia Rutter with best wishes from the Astronauts,” and signed in the lower border in various inks “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” “Walter M. Schirra, Jr.,” “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” “Virgil I. Grissom,” “M. Scott Carpenter,” “Donald K. Slayton,” and “Leroy S. Cooper, Jr.” In very good condition, with light toning and rippling, a small area of paper loss to the right edge, some trivial silvering to a darker area along the left edge, and Schirra’s and Grissom’s signatures a shade or two light, but completely legible.