U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 8-9, 2019
We are pleased to kick off the New Year with our January 8-9 sale, with 1,678 lots, including additional offerings of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I. Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous other vendors and estates sold by their order. Heinz was well known to Aero philatelists, having been active in this field since the 1960s and amassing a wonderful holding of this ever-popular and exciting area. There are selections of attractive United States, rarities from Albania, Austria, France, Germany and Colonies, Italy and Colonies, Russia, Saar, Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, featuring a strong selection of Batum, booklet from India with set of Gandhi stamps overprinted specimen and lots more. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, with Colombia Air Post, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 100+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, mostly offered intact. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #540 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1908 official postcard from Berlin to Kiel, original autograph of Count Zeppelin under his portrait, fine, rare card, signed Gappe  | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #541 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1909 Hamburg-Amerika line picture postcards, 13 different black & white cards, with original folder | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #542 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1909 six different black & white picture post cards (Leipzig), with original folder | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #543 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1910 three different color picture postcards (Prof. Z. Diemer), with original folder | Unsold |
 | Lot #544 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1928 Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin, original napkin holder in pristine condition, autographed by Clara Adams (the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a ticketed passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight from New York in October 1928) | Unsold |
 | Lot #545 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1935 "Fahrplan des Luftschiffes Graf Zeppelin" and "Sailings of the Airship Graf Zeppelin in 1935" pamphlets in German and English, listing dates and fares (South America Service), fine-v.f., scarce | Unsold |
 | Lot #546 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1935-36 Deutsche Luftpost, two special booklets, one with complete advertising insert (flights to numerous points in South America and New York), fine-v.f. | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #547 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1936 LZ 129 Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei pamphlet, fine | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #548 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1937 illustrated "Certificate of Baptism on Crossing the Equator" for the First Officer Albert Sammt, dated 5 May 1937, with large autograph "Ernst A. Lehmann" | Unsold |
 | Lot #549 GERMANY Zeppelin Memorabilia 1937 United States Immigration Services Manifest for LZ 129, arriving at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, with physical details of all 12 officers, Capt. Max Pruss, First Officer Albert Sammt, Second Officers Anton Witteman, Heinrich Bauer and Walter Ziegler, Third Officers Max Zabel and Franz Herzog, Fourth Officer Ludwig Knorr, Radio Officers Willy Speck, Herbert Dowe, Egon Schweikard and Franz Eichelman | Unsold |
