| COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1699 |  | Flown Zeppelin card and cover pair for the Egypt flight of 1929 using C32 and C33. Left Friedrichshafen (24.3.29), backstamped Cairo, Egypt (28.3.29) where they were dropped. Clean clear markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $110.00 |
| 1700 | | Flown Zeppelin Mediterranean flight cover. Left Friedrichshafen (22. APR.1929) arrived in Seville, Spain (24.4.29). Uses C33 to pay for the flight. All proper cancels, cachet, and backstamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $28.00 |
| 1701 | | Flown Zeppelin Mediterranean flight card. Postmarked aboard the Graf Zeppelin (22. 4.1929) arrived in San Remo, Spain (25.4.29). Uses C32 to pay for the flight. All proper cancels, cachet, and backstamp along with a nice Zeppelin picture post card. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1702 | | Flown Zeppelin Mediterranean flight cover. Postmarked aboard the Graf Zeppelin (22. 4.1929) arrived in Seville, Spain (24.4.29). Uses C36 to pay for the flight. All proper clear cancels, cachet, and backstamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 1703 | | Flown Zeppelin Mediterranean flight cover. Postmarked aboard the Graf Zeppelin (22. 4.1929) arrived in Seville, Spain (24.4.29). Uses C36 to pay for the flight. All proper clear cancels, cachet, and backstamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $38.00 |
| 1704 | | Flown Zeppelin Mediterranean oversize flight cover. Postmarked Friedrichshafen (22. 4.1929) arrived in Seville, Spain (24.4.29) on its way to Constantinople. Uses six colors with 337 to pay for the flight. All proper clear cancels, cachet, and backstamp. Some bends in the corners. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1705 | | Graf Zeppelin cacheted card having one C36 canceled in Friedrichshafen on May 15, 1929. It was backstamped New York on August 5 and was mailed to Dowagiac, Michigan. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 1706 | | Graf Zeppelin cacheted cover having one C37 canceled in Friedrichshafen on May 15, 1929. It was backstamped New York on August 5 and was mailed to Dowagiac, Michigan. This cover was carried on the attempted flight when it was forced to turn back because of storms and motor trouble. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 1707 | | Two Graf Zeppelin cacheted card and cover for the Mediterranean Flight. The cover having one C36 and card were both canceled on April 22, 1929 and both were backstamped Sevilla on April 24. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $38.00 |
| 1708 | | Zeppelin flight cover. Left Friedrichshafen (15.5.29), backstamped New York (5.8.29) and Lakewood, New Jersey later on the same day. Uses # C37 to pay for the flight. Clean with clear delayed flight marking, cancels and cachet. Autographed on the front by Dr. Hugo Eckner and on the reverse by Captain Hans Von Schiller. | Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $240.00 |
| 1709 | | Two Graf Zeppelin cacheted postcard and cover for the Egypt Flight. The cover having one C36 and card were both canceled on March 24, 1929 in Friedrichshafen. The cover was mailed to Cairo having a weak back stamp and the postcard received a Newark, New Jersey back stamp on April 13. This postcard has a vertical fold on its right edge. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $130.00 |
| 1710 | | Zeppelin flight cover. Left Friedrichshafen (15.5.29), backstamped New York (5.8.29) and Lakewood, New Jersey later on the same day. Uses # C37 to pay for the flight. Clean with clear delayed flight marking, cancels and cachet. Autographed on the front by Knut Eckner (Hugo's son) and on the reverse by Captain Hans Von Schiller. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $210.00 |
| 1711 | | Zeppelin flight cover. Posted with #C36 aboard the Graf Zeppelin (22.4.29) on its way to Egypt. Backstamped Seville, Spain (24.4.29). Slightly soiled with corners blunted. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $28.00 |
| 1712 | | Two Graf Zeppelin cacheted postal card and cover for the Polar Flight. The cover having one C45 and card having one C44 were both canceled on July 24, 1931 in Friedrichshafen. Both received the Brise-Glace Malyguin (Icebreaker Maligin) cancel on July 27 and were mailed to Dowagiac, Michigan. The postal card has severe stains and two small tears on its right edge. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1713 | | Zeppelin flight cover. Posted with #C32 in Friedrichshafen (24.3.29) on its way to Latvia. Backstamped Alexandria, Egypt (29.3.29). Clean, with crisp markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40.00
Price Realized: $30.00 |
| 1714 | | Rough condition Zeppelin flight cover from the first Swiss flight of 1929. Canceled with a ship cancel (26.9.29), #C27, C30, and 337 pay the 50pf rate. Two Swiss backstamps (27.9.29) and (28.9.29) prove the delivery. Folded in the center, soiled, and a paper clip mark are all flaws. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $950.00 |
| 1715 | | Crew member Albert Lehmann, a steward on the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, prepared this card cached "on board 20.Sep.1928. The card is postmarked Offenburg (20.9.28), the town in in which Albert Lehmann was born addressed to himself back in Friedrichshafen where he was based. Because the card was dropped from the Graf Zeppelin unfranked, there is a 15 pfennig postage "Due" marking in blue crayon plus a boxed red cachet "Nachgebühr," or "Postage Due," on top of the card. Flawed by a paper clip indentation. Lehmann made many such souvenirs from his group of "Zeppelin-Spende" cards. This one is a great example. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 1716 | | Zeppelin flight cover carried in the first flight of the Graf zeppelin to Seattle, Washington from Friedrichshafen (10.10.1928) through New York (16.10.1928) using C37 to pay the rate. Also includes a card from the same flight using C36. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $36.00 |
| 1717 | | U505 submarine feldpost cover F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $110.00 |
| 1718 | | Zeppelin flight cover from Friedrichshafen (24.3.1929) to Athens, Greece (30.3.1929). Lightly soiled from its travels. Uses #C33 for a 2M franking. All the proper cachets and backstamps. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $30.00 |
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