| COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1552 |  | Four matched Zeppelin flight covers (C38-C39) from the May 18, 1930 South American Flight. Destinations include: Seville, Pernambuco, Rio De Janeiro, and Lakehurst. All clean, flown, properly franked, consecutively numbered. See the webphotos. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 1553 | | Chicago Zeppelin flight cover from Berlin (14.10.33) to Pernambuco (17.10.33). Uses #C31 and C43 to pay the 1.5 mark rate. Thin airmail paper with legible markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1554 | | Chicago Zeppelin flight cover from Friedrichshafen (14.10.33) to Santiago, Chile . Uses #C28, C29, C31 and C43 to pay the 1.75 mark rate. Thin airmail paper with legible markings. Evident creases and bends from transport (C31 creased). Pretty "Zeppelin LZ" envelope and nice triangle cachet. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $220.00 |
| 1555 | | Chicago Zeppelin flight cover from Friedrichshafen (14.10.33) to Chicago (October 26, 1933). Uses #395, C31 and C44 to pay the 2.75 mark rate. Century of Progress Cacheted envelope with clear markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $120.00 |
| 1556 | | 1933 Zeppelin flight cover from "An Bord" the Graf Zeppelin (21.8.33) to Rio De Janiero (24.8.33). 10 pf plum colored "Spende" label along with # C31 and C35 to pay the 1.5 mark rate. Nice philatelic "ultima hora" Sieger cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 1557 | | Pair of Germany Polar Flight items. The first flown card is from Friedrichshafen (24.7.31) to St. Louis by way of Leningrad (25.7.31. using a side margin #C40 while the second is a cover from Friedrichshafen (24.7.31) to Bridgeport, Ct. via the icebreaker Malyguin using C42. Relatively clean with proper cachets and markings. | Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1558 | | Pioneer Air Mail Flight postcard for the first flight from Mannheim to Heidelberg May 19, 1912. Fresher than most. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1559 | | Germany, 1912 (July 25), First Flight Gotha-Erfurt picture postcard, flown by aviator Ernst Schlegel. Cancelled on arrival by Erfurt (25.7.12) and 10pf Flugpost Gotha stamp (Michel #5) tied by facsimile Schlegel autograph. Card's real photo depicts Schlegel and his "flight school" team. Soiled, but better than usual condition. Only 1,000 cards were flown. Scarce. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $110.00 |
| 1560 | | Pioneer airmail card for the Wiesbaden to Frankfurt flight. Zeppelin (Sieger 16Ab) Michel 11Ga. 23.10.1912 Viktoria Luise, Frankfurt Dispatch. Soiled with pencil marks and hinge marks on reverse. Still a quality example of the 50pf card. See the webphotos. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1561 | | First flight picture postcard cover from Gorlitz (10.8.24), to Dresden. In excellent condition. Picture side shows the much more scarce diving plane. Great example. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 1562 | | 1925 Regensburg Flight picture post card to Regensburg, one 20pf special adhesives, used in combination with 10pf air post franking, Appropriate markings and a nice photo of Ernst Udet on the picture side. Better than usually seen condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1563 | | Airmail cover from Bruck (28.11.33) to Buenos Aires through bahnpost (Kuln-Herbestal ZUG 29.11.33) to Paris (29.11.33) and then by air to Rio. Uses #328 x3, B53, B54, and B57 x2 to correctly pay the 4 Mark rate. In suprisingly good condition with the correct use of the Wagner Charity high value during the month of November with postal validity. Great use of a high face value music theme opera stamp. Showpiece. | Cat. Value: S.B. 160.00
Price Realized: $210.00 |
| 1564 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight cacheted cover canceled in Friedrichshafen on October 14, 1933. Mailed to Milwaukee and back stamped Chicago on October 26. Posted with one each C43-44 stamps. Tiny tears on top and bottom edges. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 1565 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin South America Flight cacheted postal card canceled in Friedrichshafen on August 29, 1931. Canceled upon arrival on September 4. Posted with one C38 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $95.00 |
| 1566 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight Round Trip cacheted cover canceled in Friedrichshafen on October 14, 1933. Back stamped on arrival in Magdeburg on November 3. Posted with one C45 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $230.00 |
| 1567 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin Polar Flight cacheted cover canceled in Friedrichshafen on July 24, 1931. Canceled Ice Beaker Malyguin on July 27. Posted with one C42 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $95.00 |
| 1568 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin Polar Flight cacheted postal card canceled in Friedrichshafen on July 7, 1931. Canceled Ice Beaker Malyguin on July 27. Posted with one C41 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $150.00 |
| 1569 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin DO-X South America Flight cacheted photo postcard canceled on June 22, 1931. Posted with one C39 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $100.00 |
| 1570 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin South America Flight cacheted cover canceled in Friedrichshafen on May 18, 1930. Mailed to Aberdeen, Maryland. Posted with two C39 and one C38 stamps. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $180.00 |
| 1571 | | Germany Graf Zeppelin South America Flight cacheted cover canceled in Friedrichshafen on May 18, 1930. Pernambuco back stamped on May 27. Posted with one C39 stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 1572 | | Unused postcard (metallpostkarte mit papiereinlage) promoting "Zeppelin's Luftschiff im vollen Fluge" made from the metal skin of an earlier vessel's gondola and sold for the continuation of Germany's Zeppelin program. Just a few edge creases detract from the overall excellent appearance. Showpiece addition to any Zeppelin collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $210.00 |
| 1573 | | Two early "Pioneer Rocket Flight" souvenirs, one cover and one card each signed by Zucker. The "first set" perf on cover and imperf on card with no additional postage. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $30.00 |
| 1574 | | Five different Catapult flight cards and covers 1930-1934. Clear correct markings. Mainly Bremen usages. In "as flown", "better than most" collectable condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 1575 | | German postal stationery folded post card with attached used return card. Originally went from Zittau (17.2.01) to Tsingtau and returned from Tsingtau (3.4.01) back to the original writer (12.6.01). Unsevered. Not uprated. Clear markings. Good condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 1576 | | Graf Zeppelin picture postcard used for the 1930 Spitzbergenfahrt, Hammerfest drop. All the proper markings. Rare destination. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 1577 | | Four covers and cards from the tumultuous period following WWI. All saved for a reason and removed from the pages of a highly specialized German Area collection. Interesting frankings, cancels, usages, and destinations. All 1919. Two PPC for the National Assembly (1.7.19), and (29.7.19); one flight cover Weimar (1.7.19) to Berlin; and best of all a cover from the "German Peace delegation" (23.6.19). All are in from the mail condition and are probably all philatelic. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1578 | | French Zone 4N1//4N11 on registered philatelic cover from Saarbrucken (19.1.46) to Kaiserslautern. Difficult to find #4N5 and #4N11 used, let alone on cover. Pencil markings, lightly soiled, with no backstamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $28.00 |
| 1579 | | Pair of French Zone (Kappalrodeck, Baden) airmail covers to Milwaukee. One flew (5.7.49) while the other flew (14.12.49). No backstamps. Each franking #5N38 plus 5N40, and 5N23, 5N33, 5N4O pays the 1.3 mark 13 gram rate. Scarce trans Atlantic covers. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $50.00 |
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