U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
February 23-24, 2016

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Lot #364
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1929 Round-the-World flight picture postcard, franked with 2M Zeppelin adhesive, Friedrichshafen departure, addressed to Hankow, China, red "Friedrichshafen (Bodensee)-Tokyo" handstamp, fine, one of only 9 flown to China
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Price Realized
$475.00

Lot #365
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1929 Round-the-World flight picture postcard, franked with 4M Zeppelin adhesive, Friedrichshafen departure, addressed to Hankow, China, red "Friedrichshafen (Bodensee)-Tokyo" handstamp, fine, with arrival cds on back, one of only 9 flown to China
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Unsold
Lot #366
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1933 Chicago flight, cacheted cover (with background) franked with 2M and additional adhesives, cancelled on board (25.10), with triangular cachet and Chicago (Oct.26) Century of Progress arrival handstamp, v.f. (Mi.496)
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Catalog #C44
Catalog Value €550
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #367
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1935 (14 Nov) shuttle flight cover originating in Stuttgart, addressed to Capt. Max Pruss, on board the Graf Zeppelin, with 1985 Sieger certificate. A fine example of the shuttle service (mail flights between Germany (Friedrichshafen on Bodensee near Berlin) and Brazil (Pernambuco, also known as Recife, and then Rio de Janeiro) began in 1930. European and other mail was carried under contract between the two countries. Between May 8, 1935 and December 9, 1935 it undertook a total of 33 trans-Atlantic flights. Two were between Pernambuco and Seville, Spain. Three other (six trans-Atlantic) mail only flights occurred between Pernambuco and Bathurst in Gambia. These were known as pendulum flights as the Graf Zeppelin either dropped or hauled up mail in Bathurst without actually landing)
Envelope
Catalog #Si.330A
Unsold
Lot #368
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1935 (17 Nov) shuttle flight picture postcard from the airship to Erding, with special overprinted label "An Bord Graf Zeppelin", v.f. example of the scarce shuttle flight service from the Zeppelin to Germany, signed Sieger
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Catalog #Si.330B
Unsold
Lot #369
GERMANY Zeppelin Flights
1935 (25 Nov) shuttle flight cover originating in Stuttgart, with Zeppelin label overprinted "On Board the Graf Zeppelin", with 1985 Sieger certificate. This date represents the 500th flight of the Graf Zeppelin
Envelope
Catalog #Si.330B
Unsold

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