U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
June 11-12, 2003
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #212 1933 Century of Progress 1933 50c Zeppelin, proofs and essays, a remarkable collection consisting of a large die proof (reduced to 65:37mm, tiny stain); small die proof (v.f.), both with PFCs (cat. $20,750+), also 14 diff. photo essays, various sizes, showing a marvelous range of proposed and mostly rejected designs, plus a privately executed artist drawing in green (185:88mm), some black album page adherances, mostly v.f. P Catalog #C18P | Price Realized $27,000.00 | |
| Lot #213 1933 Century of Progress 1933 Zeppelin/Catapult combination flight cover from Germany to Rio de Janeiro, Sea Post Bremen dispatch, both the red Chicago flight and green 9 October 1933 "Deutsche Schleuderflug Dampfer "Bremen"-Southampton, Letzter Flug 1933" cachets,v.f. and rare cover  Catalog #C18 | Price Realized $1,500.00 | |
| Lot #214 1933 Century of Progress 1933 Friedrichshafen to Akron, legal size cover franked with 50c green, used in combination with Zeppelin stamps from Brazil and Germany (Sc.C43,44), three diff. Zeppelin cachets incl. "Century of Progess" and Chicago Flight, with return address of the "Ormig Corporation" and F.W.Meister, special U.S. representative of "Lufschiffbau Zeppelin G.M.B.H.", both in New York, fine and appealing three-country combination Zeppelin flight cover Catalog #C18 | Price Realized $1,650.00 | |
| Lot #215 1933 Century of Progress 1933 large cover franked with 50c green, printed cachet in green, canc. New York, Oct.2 (First Day of Issue), Catapult Flight 5.10.33 on "Bremen" to Southampton and by Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen where the set of three German Chicagoflight adhesives (Sc.C43-45) were added, appropriate cachets for each stop, cover with edge defects, still spectacular and one of only six known covers with such combinations Catalog #C18 | Unsold | |
| Lot #216 1933 Century of Progress 1933 Zeppelin flight cover originating in Nicaragua, flown to Chicago and from there to Germany, appropriate Century of Progress cachet, Friedrichshafen arrival hs in green, v.f. and scarce combination franking from Nicaragua Catalog #C18 | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
