| COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1679 |  | Two Graf Zeppelin South America First Flight cachet cover having one C38 and two C39 and a card having one C39 cancelled in Friedrichshafen on May 18, 1930. Both were back stamped in Lakehurst on May 31 and they were mailed to Dowagiac Michigan. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 1680 | | Graf Zeppelin South America First Flight cachet cover having two C38 and two C39 cancelled in Friedrichshafen on May 18, 1930. This cover made the complete round trip via Spain, Brazil, and the United States. It received a back stamp cancel on June 6. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $300.00 |
| 1681 | | Graf Zeppelin South America passenger mail cachet cover having one C38. This cover bears the ship cancellation and is dated May 19, 1930 indicating that it was mailed while the Graf was between Friedrichshafen and Sevilla, Spain. It has upper left corner damage and both lower corners have minor folds. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $80.00 |
| 1682 | | Graf Zeppelin Flight cover having one C37 cancelled in Friedrichshafen on 10 Okt 1929. It was mailed to Brooklyn, New York and back stamped on October 26. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $30.00 |
| 1683 | | Graf Zeppelin Flight card having one C36 cancelled in Friedrichshafen on 13 Okt 1928. It was mailed to New York and back stamped on October 16. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $32.00 |
| 1684 | | Chicago Zeppelin flight cover posted in Berlin (13.10.33) to Chicago (backstamped Oct 26, 1933) with two different bold cachets. Pleasingly franked with C28, C29, C31, and C43 x 2 (one with slight tear at LL). Condition renders this one "as is" with a 15mm tear at LL which does enter the stamp. Wrinkles, and a torn back flap are also flaws. Pleasing clear cachets and a sound tied C43 are the strengths. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $220.00 |
| 1685 | | Zeppelin flight cover for the Polar Flight of 1931. Travels from Friedrichshafen (Bodensee 24.7.31) to the Icebreaker Malyguin (27VII31) using #C42. Clear markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 1686 | | Matched card and cover set to the US delayed flight of May-August 1929 from an old time Zeppelin exhibit. Both are "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin" (16.5.1929) double cancelled with August 5, 1929 receiving markings. Clean, crisp, with proper markings, with the PPC showing the craft over Bergenz. Has a couple of pencil marks on the front. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 1687 | | Flown Zeppelin cover postmarked by the Graf Zeppelin (on board 25.3.1929) to Er Ramle, Palestine (26.3.1929). Proper Orientfahrt 1929 red cachet and backstamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1688 | | Flown Zeppelin cover for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C33. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Jerusalem (27.3.29) plus the slogan "Visit the Palestine and Near East Exhibition, Tel Aviv April, 1929". Still mounted on exhibit page. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 1689 | | Flown Zeppelin cover for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C27 x2 and C33. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Stamboul, Turkey. Still mounted on exhibit page. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $48.00 |
| 1690 | | Two Graf Zeppelin cacheted card having one C36 and cover having one C37 canceled in Friedrichshafen on July 31, 1929. Both were backstamped New York on August 5, 1929 at 3 A.M. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1691 | | Graf Zeppelin cacheted cover having one C37 canceled in Friedrichshafen on May 15, 1929. It was sent to Libau, Latvia via New York where it was back stamped on August 5. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $85.00 |
| 1692 | | Flown Zeppelin cover for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C33. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29) addressed to New York. No backstamp. Two soiled corners. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $28.00 |
| 1693 | | Zeppelin Swiss 5th flight cover and card both cancelled 2.11.1929 in Zurich as the Zeppelin landed there. Both mailed to Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The cover has a vertical fold in its middle and a small tear on its left side and the card is a little wrinkled. Both still nice flight examples. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 1694 | | Zeppelin Stuttgart Return Flight card. After landing in Stuttgart, Rheinflight cancelled Boblingen on November 3 and then Friedrichshafen also on November 3. | Cat. Value: S.B. 30.00
Price Realized: $18.00 |
| 1695 | | Pair of flown Zeppelin PPCs for the Egypt flight of 1929 each using C32. Together they show the variety of cancels possible for this trip. All the proper makings in flown condition. A pretty pair. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1696 | | Flown Zeppelin cover for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C36. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Er Ramle (26.3.29). Interesting destination. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 1697 | | Flown Zeppelin cover for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C36. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Alexandria, Egypt (28.3.29) where it was dropped and forwarded on to Libau, Latvia. Clean clear markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $120.00 |
| 1698 | | Flown Zeppelin PPC for the Egypt flight of 1929 using 358, 343, and C32. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Port Said (28.3.29). Most interesting is the clean post card commemorating "Der Deutch Umeritaflug" from Ireland to Newfoundland. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $75.00 |
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