Netherlands, 1931 (29-31 Aug), 1st South America Flight, Praia Drop. Cover franked 2.45g including 40c syncopated perfs type B (191b), backstamped Praia, addressed to Hof Bavaria with receiver at lower left 16 Sep, Very Fine.
Michel 216 Ia; €300 ($400). Sieger 124.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643
Auction 643 of Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic
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Lot #526 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Lot #527 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Russia, 1930 (9-11 Sep), Russia Flight, Moscow-Friedrichshafen, registered cover to Brooklyn, N.Y. franked with 8 stamps (110k) tied by small Moscow c.d.s.'s 10 Sep, red Bremen Cologne-Cherbourg Supplementary Airmail Service handstamp at lower left, backstamped Friedrichshafen 11 Sep and Brooklyn 22 & 23 Sep, Very Fine.
Michel 122 Ae; €400+ ($540). Sieger 84.
Estimate $400 - 600.
Lot #528 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Russia, 1932 (26-29 Sep), 7th South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Recife. Picture postcard franked 1r (C7-8, C23 & E2) and sent registered from Moscow with Berlin connecting flight cachet, Very Fine.
Michel 279 b; €400 ($540). Sieger 183.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #529 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Russia, 1933 (30 Sep-3 Oct), 8th South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Recife. Registered cover franked 1.60rm tied by large Leningrad airmail c.d.s.'s, with Berlin Connecting Flight and Zeppelin cachets, Very Fine.
Michel 343 b; €380 ($510). Sieger 235.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #530 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Saar, 1933 (25 Jun), Saar Flight, Saarbrücken-Friedrichshafen. Picture postcard (Saarbrücken train station) canceled 25 Jun with both cachets and Friedrichshafen receiver, Very Fine.
Michel 314 Ab; €350 ($470). Sieger 218.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #531 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Switzerland, 1929 (15 Aug-4 Sep), Round-The-World Flight. Cover franked with 12.50fr (front & back) including C9-14, Very Fine, 363 pieces flown.
Michel 31; €300 ($400). Sieger 30.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #532 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Switzerland, 1929 (15-26 Aug) Round-the-World Flight, Tokyo - Los Angeles. Cover franked (front & back) with 10fr postage (206, C6, C9-14) tied by Zurich c.d.s.s (13 Aug), red Flight cachet, Friedrichshafen c.d.s. (15 Aug), backstamped Los Angeles (26 Aug), Very Fine.
Michel 30; €450 ($600). Sieger 31. A.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #533 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Switzerland, 1930 (18 Jun), Vorarlberg Flight, Bregenz Drop. Picture postcard franked with 1fr45c canceled Romanshorn 11 May, mailed to Friedrichshafen and held for the flight, red Zeppelin cachet and Bregenz receiver "18. VI. 30. 10", Very Fine.
Michel 72; €2,000 ($2,680). Sieger 67; €2,000 ($2,680).
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Lot #534 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (Apr 10), U.S.S. Akron cover, postmarked Akron, O., Apr 10, 1930, and signed by P.W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Dr. H. Eckener, and Karl Arnstein, designer of both the Akron and the Macon; the reverse bears the handstamped cachet marking the occasion of Dr. Eckener's visit to the Goodyear Airdock to inspect the Akron on Oct 7., Very Fine.
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Lot #535 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (Apr 10), U.S.S. Akron cover, postmarked Akron, O., Apr 10, 1930, and signed by P.W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Dr. H. Eckener, and airship designer, Karl Arustein; the reverse bears the handstamped cachet marking the occasion of Dr. Eckener's visit to the Goodyear Airdock to inspect the Akron on Oct 7., Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #536 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight. Complete used set on three individual cards or cover, C13 & C14 are on alike real photo picture postcards of Eckener and the Graf Zeppelin, and C15 is on cover, all with the same cachets and same addressee, choice set, Fine to Very Fine.
Scott C13-C15; $1,200. Sieger 64.
Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Lot #537 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight, C13 and C14 together on 1¢ postal card, C15 on 2¢ entire, each with NYC Apr 22 1930 postmarks, proper cachets and transit marks, both addressed to Brooklyn NY, Fine to Very Fine.
Scott C13-C15; $1,140. Sieger 64.
Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Lot #538 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Lakehurst. Dual-cacheted airmail envelope with $2.60 Zeppelin tied by New York machine cancel 29 Apr, backstamped Lakehurst, Very Fine.
Michel 66 Gc; €1,000 ($1,340). Sieger 64.
Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot #539 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight. Attractive $2.60 Graf Zeppelin tied on large Zeppelin flown cover to Wisconsin, with "Washington, DC, May 6, 1930" cancellation, Very Fine to Extremely Fine.
Scott C15; $625. Sieger 64.
Estimate $400 - 600.
Lot #540 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight. 65¢ & $1.30 Zeppelins each on dual-cacheted Zeppelin card, 65¢ Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen, $1.30 Friedrichshafen-Lakehurst, Very Fine.
Scott C13, C14; $575. Sieger 64.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #541 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight. Two C13's and C14 tied on oversized cover to Washington, DC, black "New York Varick Station, Apr 29, 1930" cancellations; C13 at top with a few perf flaws at right, Fine to Very Fine.
Scott C13, C14; $705 for singles. Sieger 64.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #542 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Seville. Dual-cacheted airmail envelope with $1.30 Zeppelin tied by New York machine cancel 2 May, two Seville backstamps 19 May, Very Fine.
Michel 62 Gb; €600 ($800). Sieger 64.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #543 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Lakehurst. Dual-cacheted Zeppelin picture postcard (real photo of Zeppelin above skyscrapers) with $1.30 Zeppelin tied by New York machine cancel 6 May, Lakehurst receiver at bottom, Very Fine.
Michel 66 Gb; €600 ($800). Sieger 64.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #544 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1933 (14-17 Oct), Chicago Flight. 3 covers with U.S. legs of the World's Fair flight: Miami-Akron, Akron-Chicago & Chicago-Friedrichshafen; all franked with 50¢ Zeppelin (C18); first is a card with Rice cachet on reverse, Very Fine.
Sieger 242-244; €575 ($770).
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #545 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, 1936, Goodyear Airship Volunteer Flight Cover. 3¢ stamped envelope with 6¢ Winged Globe (C19) affixed, bearing the manuscript endorsement, entirely in the pilot's hand, "This letter was carried in the Goodyear Airship Volunteer on the flight from Sacramento to Los Angeles, Calif. Date March 26 & 27, 1936. [signed] A.T. Sewell, Pilot Captain". After landing in Los Angeles, Sewell apparently mailed the cover to...
Lot #546 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, Hindenburg, 1936 (12-14 May), 1st North America Flight, Lakehurst-Frankfurt. Airmail cover franked with 46c including half a TIPEX souvenir sheet canceled First Day at the Exhibition and bearing the purple flight cachet and type III Frankfurt backstamp, Very Fine.
Michel 13 A; €450 ($600). Sieger 406.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #547 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, Hindenburg, 1937 (3 May), 1st North America Flight, resulting in the infamous crash. A well preserved large portion of a cover that was recovered and so designated in "LZ-129 HINDENBURG, ZEPPELIN CRASH MAIL" book by Leder, in its clean up of the crash site and wreckage, forwarded by NY Post Office and complete glassine envelope and official seals, one of which is tied and signed Schaeffer. Cover addressed to well...
Lot #548 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, Hindenburg, 1937 (3 May), 1st North America Flight, resulting in the infamous crash. Cover prepared by Sieger for the ill-fated flight, but returned to sender, handstamped "…Could not be forwarded on account of accident to Airship, May 6, 1937.", Very Fine.
Sieger 454Ea; €350 ($470).
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #549 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
United States, Hindenburg, 1937, 2nd North America Flight, Previously Posted Mail. Airmail cover franked with 20¢ & 50¢ China Clippers and flown by F.A.M. 14 San Francisco-Hong Kong-Batavia, thence by K.L.M. to Frankfurt, where it was supposed to have connected with the Hindenburg; sent registered from Frankfurt to U.S. with 50pf Hindenburg stamp tied by Frankfurt airmail c.d.s. 18 Jun, backstamped Victoria H.K. and...
Lot #550 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Uruguay, 1930 (May 25 - June 6), Graf Zeppelin Flight, Rio de Janeiro - Friedrichshafen, cover from Montevideo - Berlin cover, on special Zeppelin stationery, with green Uruguay flight cachet, lilac US flight cachet, franked with 3 Uruguay stamps, Very Fine.
Michel 68D. Sieger 61. B.
Estimate $300 - 400.
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