Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World including the Fred Blau Collection
March 3-4, 2020

We are pleased to announce our March 3-4, 2020 Auction, featuring the Fred Blau collection of Palestine Aerophilately and Military Mail, followed by United States and Possessions, with Dr.Ernesto Arosemena's Canal Zone, continuing with selections from Asia, Western European countries, South and Central America, Middle East, as well as extensive Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Poland with an exceptional collection of World War II Occupation proofs & essays, Russia, Vatican City, etc., and ending as usual with Large Lots and Collections. This is a live public auction taking place in our NYC Galleries as well as on CherrystoneLIVE.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #43
EGYPT 1931 Egypt Flight Zeppelin Flights
1931 L.Z. 127 Graf Zeppelin Airship 9-13, 1931 "Palestine Round Trip", Port Said-Jerusalem, Ministry of Communication cover (legal size) franked with 100m on 27m and tied by 10 Apr 31 Port Said Graf Zeppelin cds, repeated alongside, with commemorative Egypt Flight cachet and Jerusalem 13 April 31 arrival pmk, v.f. Egyptian mail from Port Said was loaded aboard the airship at the time of the first landing, taken on the flight over Palestine and then off-loaded in Cairo for delivery by surface mail. A rare cover, prepared for Egypt's Minister of Posts and later ex-King Farouk (illustrated on page 45 of "The Egypt Flight L.Z. 127 Graf Zeppelin" by Fred H. Blau and Cyril Deighton, 1981) (the second flight (after the 1929 Orient Flight) to the Middle East took place in 1931, beginning on 9 April. Graf Zeppelin crossed the Mediterranean to Benghazi in Libya, then flew via Alexandria, to Cairo in Egypt, where it saluted King Fuad at the Qubbah Palace, then visited the Great Pyramid of Giza and hovered 70 feet above the top of the monument. After a brief stop, the ship flew to Palestine where it circled Jerusalem, then returned to Cairo to pick up Dr.Eckener, who had stayed for an audience with the King. It returned to Friedrichshafen on 13 April)
Catalog #C4
Price Realized
$2,100.00

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