U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 18-19, 2014
Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1387 VATICAN CITY Zeppelin Flights 1931 Egypt Flight card with Vatican franking, via Lugano (7 Apr) to Friedrichshafen (9 Apr), with Germany 1m greed added for further transmission to Cairo (11 April), appropriate Pyramid cachet, inconsequential toning at bottom, fine and rare card (without the required Italian franking), signed Gappe
| Unsold
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 | Lot #1388 VATICAN CITY Zeppelin Flights 1931 Egypt Flight picture postcard with franking on picture side, Vatican (31 Mar), Italy (1 Apr), Germany (9 Apr), with Cairo (11 April) arrival, appropriate Pyramid cachet applied on both sides, also "Mit Luftpost befordert Postampt Munchen 2" and "Mit Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin nach Cairo" in blue, v.f., signed Gappe
| Price Realized $4,750.00
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 | Lot #1389 VATICAN CITY Zeppelin Flights 1931 (6 June) card addressed to Germany, with arrival pmk, 1m Zeppelin added and cancelled on board (14.6), with Lugano and Milano transit pmks on back, v.f. and interesting combination
| Price Realized $750.00
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 | Lot #1390 VATICAN CITY Zeppelin Flights 1933 (29 May) picture postcard, mixed franking with ordinary Italian stamps (rather than the required Zeppelin adhesives) also the complete set of 1933 Vatican Ano Santo on picture side of the card, registered to Barcelona, with two slightly different Roma Flight cachets, Barcelona arrival, fine and unusual combination, only 20 pieces of Vatican mail were dropped in Barcelona, signed Gappe
| Unsold
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 | Lot #1391 VATICAN CITY Zeppelin Flights 1939 (21 Aug) LZ 130 flight card, mixed franking with German adhesives, Konigsberg arrival (9 Sep 1939). This was the very last planned flight of LZ-130, cancelled due to outbreak of World War II, nevertheless still delivered
| Unsold
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