Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
July 12-14, 2022
Welcome to our July 12-14, 2022 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, which will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE and StampAuctionNetwork (SAN). This 1,713-lot sale features United States and Possessions, with 19th & 20th Century single rarities, 1869 Inverted Centers, Special Printings, graded items, Plate Blocks and back of the book material. Foreign countries include Austria, China, Egypt, France and Colonies, Germany with a selection of WWII Occupation Issues, as well as WWI covers from POW Camps, including Japan. Great Britain and British Commonwealth feature high values from Australia, BNA and British Africa. There are rarities from Iran, including postal history, Italy and Italian Colonies, Nepal, Netherlands and Colonies, Panama, Russia and other collecting areas. The auction concludes with over two hundred Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections to multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #491 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 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)  Catalog #Si.330A | Price Realized $300.00 |
