COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1774 | | Germany DO-X cover from Berlin (3.JUN.31) to Rio De Janerio (22.VI.31). Uses Scott # C38-C39 to pay the 6Mark rate. Great philatelic souvenir cover. | Cat. Value: S. B. $100.00 Price Realized: $120.00 |
| 1775 | | Germany Zeppelin cover for the Polar Flight of 1931. Full “sets” cover with Scott #C40-C42 paying the rate. Canceled on board with a 26.7.1931 circle date stamp only one day before being canceled aboard the Malyguin (27VII31). Neat and fairly clean with the appropriate Polarfahrt cachet. Another great philatelic souvenir of a bygone age. | Cat. Value: S.B. $200.00 Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 1776 | | Germany Zeppelin flight cover from Berlin (20.3.32) to Valparaiso, Chile (28 MAR 32). Sieger 138 Aa, B. Opened roughly at bottom. Pretty four color franking paying the 175pf rate. Fine appearance. | Cat. Value: S.B. $80.00 Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 1777 | | Germany Wagner Opera exhibit registered cover from Warnemunde (23.1.34) to Rostock (23.1.34) delivered three hours later. Two Hindenburg 1pf and the 40pf high value charity (B57) pay the exact 42pf rate. Opened unevenly at the top. All the proper markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $75.00 |
| 1778 | | Germany unsigned Zucker rocket flight cover posted January 28, 1934 to Korber in Weimar. B52 pays the postage along with three Zucker “stamps” one pair is tete-beche. All this on a S.S. Europa postcard. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $36.00 |
| 1779 | | Germany signed Zucker rocket flight cover posted January 23, 1934 to Erich Beck. B49-B50 and B52 pay the postage along with three Zucker tete-beche pairs and a single. All the proper markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1780 | | Germany signed Zucker rocket flight cover posted January 28, 1934 to Erich Beck. B49-B50 and B52 pay the postage along with three Zucker singles All the proper markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. $32.00 Price Realized: $48.00 |
| 1781 | | Germany signed Zucker rocket flight cover posted January 28, 1934 with a hand written personal note to model rocketeer Olaf Lemke. B52 pays the postage along with two different Zucker singles. All the proper markings plus a “Europa” postcard. A little damaged across the signature from mounting. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $34.00 |
| 1782 | | Germany signed Zucker rocket flight cover posted January 28, 1934 addressed to Erich Beck. B50 and B53 pay the 12pf postage along with three different Zucker tete-beche pairs. All the proper markings plus a “Europa” postcard. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $36.00 |
| 1783 | | Germany charity issues (B12 and B14) paying the 25pf rate from Berlin to New York (22.2.25). No backstamp and tape mounting on reverse. To sweeten the deal matched mint corner blocks of B12-B15 (back faults) included. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $32.00 |
| 1784 | | Germany canceled June 19, 1912 early special flight card franked with a semi-official 1 Mark “Helber Hund” stamp. Mailed to Mainz. Card has been lightly folded vertically down the middle. Super postal history. | Cat. Value: S.B. $65.00 Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 1785 | | Germany first Flight cover was mailed with a 1 Mark Scott #111 stamp and canceled on February 6, 1919 in Weimer where it was mailed to Berlin. This historic cover was the first flight of today’s well-known German airline “Lufthansa” which among its first passengers was Friedrich Ebert, the President of the new Republic. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $90.00 |
| 1786 | | Germany registered cover from Neu Ulm cancelled on April 23, 1932. Mailed with four B42 and five B43 stamps both having a number 10 margin copies in their salvage. Mailed to Regensburg and canceled there on February 23, 1932. Cover is vertically folded middle; missing any stamps. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $48.00 |
| 1787 | | Germany Zeppelin card from on board the Graf Zeppelin (23.9.30) to Stockholm, Sweden (24.9.30) during the Ostseefahrt. Sieger #88Dc. Clean with no message. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $30.00 |
| 1788 | | Germany Stamp Show cancel June 21, 1936 registered cover from Dusseldorf. Contains complete set of B69-B78 mailed to Frankfurt | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $48.00 |
| 1789 | | Germany Zeppelin picture postcard from on board the Graf Zeppelin (9.4.1931) to Cairo, Egypt (11. AP.31) during the Agyptenfahrt. Sieger #104b. Clean with no message. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1790 | | Germany registered cover canceled on August 20, 1948 in Berlin. Includes 16 different stamps having mixed carpet and band overprints. Transit cancel New York September 14 and final destination of Oberlin, Ohio September 16. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 1791 | | Germany Zeppelin picture postcard from on board the Graf Zeppelin (5.16.1929) to Cleveland, Ohio, through New York (Aug 5,192) during the delayed South American flight. Sieger #27B. Great postcard view of a seemingly real photo of the Graf Zeppelin overhead. | Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00 Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 1792 | | Germany airmail mixed US and German franking cover canceled on September 1, 1948 in Berlin. Mailed to Oberlin, Ohio having no transit cancel. Includes a 50 pfennig band overprint and a US 15 cents airmail stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. $30.00 Price Realized: $20.00 |
| 1793 | | Germany Anti Jewish propaganda postcard from the art exhibition in Munich (18.12.37)The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude) was the title of an exhibition of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst) displayed at the Library of the German Museum in Munich from November 8, 1937 to January 31,1938. The exhibition attracted many more vistitor than expected so was considered a propaganda failure by many. The privately produced card (5pf airmail) is registered and uses B107, B113 x 2, and B114 x 2, to finish paying the 90pf rate to Chicago (JAN 24, 1938). Corners rounded and lighly soild, but a solid postal history display item. | Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00 Price Realized: $65.00 |