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Showing posts with label zeppelin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zeppelin. Show all posts

Monday, October 03, 2016

Attractive Zeppelin Airship Condor Cover 1934

Zeppelin Airship Condor Cover multicolor Franking

Zeppelin Airship Condor Cover multicolor Franking

Attractive Condor-Zeppelin letter with multicolour franking, sent Argentine to Germany in 1934. Black triangle board stamp: 1st vuelo directo 30-6-34 Argentina – Europa.

Mit Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin befördert, Friedrichshafen Bodensee - mark at reverse.

More Zeppelin Mail: HERE

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Zeppelin Mail Liechtenstein Cover to USA 1936

Zeppelin Airship Hindenburg Scarce Liechtenstein Cover

Zeppelin Airship Liechtenstein Cover 1936

Liechtenstein 1936: Registered mail sent Triesenberg to New York City by Zeppelin Airship Hindenburg L. Z. 129 as 1. North-American flight May 6th.

Attached is a 2 Fr. Fürstentum Liechtenstein stamp with clear cancellation. Additional red “Deutsche Luftpost Europa – Nordamerika. New York arrival-mark.

Clean and fresh, good condition.

Only 49.250 stamps have been issued and not many have been used for real mail.

More Zeppelin Mail: HERE

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Zeppelin LZ 129 Trial Flight 1936 Mixed Franking on Board Cancellation

Zeppelin Mail trail flight LZ 129 1936
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Zeppelin Mail first post Flight LZ 129 1936 Hamburg vintage postcard, official postcard by DELAG, Frankfurt with 4 air-mail stamps attached: 5, 10, 15, 20 Pfennig, Luftschiff LZ 126 on-board cancellations from 23.03.36. This was a trial flight.

Sent to Breslau. Good condition. More Zeppelin Postal History: HERE

Monday, May 09, 2016

Ballon Mail Luxemburg 1927 Two Postcards

Two Ballon Mail Luxemburg 1927

Ballon Mail Luxemburg

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Luxemburg 1927: 2 postcards (G. Duché de Luxemburg, Carte Postale Poste Aerienne.) Each with 2 stamps and “Par Ballon Exp Phil Luxembourg 8 Sept. 1927” - cancellations. Good condition.

More Postal History: HERE

Thursday, August 14, 2014

German Zeppelin Cover Sudeten Flight 1938, Propapanda Strike

Zeppelin Cover Sudetenland-Flight 1938



Zeppelin Cover
Zeppelin Cover

Zeppelin cover with Winterhilfwerk stamp set. Flug- und Luftschiffhafen Frankfurt – cancellations. Red “Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Fahrt ueber das befreite Sudetenland” - strike Reichenberg strike with propaganda-slogan at reverse.

More Zeppelin Mail: HERE


Friday, December 06, 2013

Zeppelin Cover Egypt Flight 1931

Zeppelin Cover Egypt Flight 1931




Zeppelin cover Egypt Flight

Zeppelin airmail cover with red “Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Aegyptenfahrt 1931“ stamp and bilingual Egypt-strike.

The cover comes from the John Knollmueller collection. Good condition.

More Zeppelin collectibles: HERE


Monday, December 02, 2013

Zeppelin Postal Card Ostseerundfahrt 1931


Zeppelin Postal Card Ostseerundfahrt 1931



Zeppelin postalcard from 1931. Decorative Upper-Silesia imprint, franked with a 1 RM Zeppelin stamp Michel Nr. 455 and violet „Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Ostseejahr-Rundfahrt 1931“ strike.

Shipped with airship Graf Zeppelin 127. The postcard comes from the important John Knollmueller collection. Good condition.

More Zeppelin mails: HIER

Friday, June 14, 2013

Vintage Zeppelin Photo-postcard, red visit strike

Zeppelin Photo-postcard, red cancellation to commemorate visit



Zeppelin Postcard vintage Zeppelin Postcard


Zeppelin Photo-postcard: „ Friedrichshafen a. B. Neue Luftschiffhalle mit LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin“.

It shows the airship over the hangar. Oval shaped, red cancellation to commemorate the visit of the airship: „ Zur Erinnerung an die Besichtigung des Luftschiffes Graf Zeppelin.“

Postally used in 1933, good condition.

More Zeppelin collectibles: HERE


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Polarflight UdSSR Zeppelin 1931 Cover and Postcard

Polarflight UdSSR Zeppelin 1931 Cover and Postcard

Zeppelin Mail Polar Flight


Polarflight UdSSR 1931: 2 Zeppelin mails, cover and postcard.

Sieger catalogue numbers 119 Ba and 119 Bb. Register mail Leningrad. Good condition.

More Zeppelin Mail: HERE

Monday, June 25, 2012

Zeppelin Mail Deutschlandfahrt 1937 with Miniature Sheet

Zeppelin Mail Deutschlandfahrt 1937 with Miniature Sheet

Zeppelin Mail Hitler stamps


Airship Hindenburg Germany Flight from 1. May 1937. Cover, franked with a Hitler miniature sheet, Hindenburg and 75 Pfennig airmail stamps.

Red Luftschiff Hindenburg Deutschlandfahrt – strike and square cancellation: Wegen Ausfalls der Deutschlandfahrt Postabwurf bei Nordamerikafahrt.

Koeln-arrival-mark 3. 5. 37 Good condition, clean, unfolded.

Friday, June 01, 2012

Zeppelin Mail LZ 129 to Rio 1936 Mixed franking

Zeppelin Mail LZ 129 to Rio de Janeiro 1936 Mixed franking

Zeppelin Mail to Rio


Zeppelin L.Z.129: Cover as registered mail and hand-written text: “Mit Luftschiff L.Z.129“. Multicolor franking.

Tuebingen to Rio de Janeiro 30. 03. 1936.

Clear cancellations, good condition.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Zeppelin Mail First North Amerika Flight 1936

Zeppelin Mail First North Amerika Flight 1936

Zeppelin Mail


Zeppelin L.Z.129: Postcard with Zeppelin imprint and text: “Mit Luftschiff Hindenburg L.Z.129 Erste Fahrt nach Nordamerika“.

Mixed franking.

Frankfurt to New York 6. 5. 1936. 2 New York arrival-strikes.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Airship Zeppelin Letter to Holland, 1929

Zeppelin Letter 1929


Hollandflight with airship „Graf Zeppelin“. Franked with a 100 Mark Deutsches Reich-stamp. Michel Nr. 343. Numerals shifted to left version.

“Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin 13. 10. 1929” - cancellation.

 A few small mould spots otherwise fine condition.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Zeppelin Mail Swiss-Flight 1933 LZ 127

1933, May 26: Zeppelin cover with 12 stamps, short trip per LZ 127 to Switzerland. Sieger catalogue: 206 I


Zeppelin cover LZ 127 to Switzerland


Some brown spots from aging.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Zeppelin Mail. Cover America-Flight 1929 LZ 127

Zeppelin cover with 4 stamps, per LZ127 to America.

Red strike: „Befoerderung verzoegert wegen Abbruchs der 1. Amerikafahrt“. (delayed transport due to abandonment of 1. America-Flight”).


Zeppelin Mail America-Flight

Blue Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin 1. Amerikafahrt-strike.

New York 5. Aug. 1929 – arrival strike.

Some brown spots from aging.

Friday, February 04, 2011

Zeppelin Postcard Flight Switzerland 1930

Zeppelin, Luftschiff-Postkarte. Franked with a 1 Mark airmail stamp, Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin 17. 6. 1930 – cancellation. Zuerich Fluplatz – arrival strike.



View at Lauterburg at reverse.

Fine condition.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Zeppelin Letter Sevilla Hamburg. Mixed Franking

Graf Zeppelin flight Sevilla to Friedrichshafen. Attractive cover with mixed franking.





Sender from Philadelphia. Red „Mit Luftpost befoerdert Hamgurg-Fuhlsbuettel Flugplatz“.

Fine condition.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Zeppelin Cover to Argentine. 4 Stamps attached, 1933

Multi color franking with 10, 15 and 3 x 50 Pfennig stamps, Friedrichshafen cancellations.




Green „Luftschiff Graf-Zeppelin, 2. Suedamerika-Fahrt 1933“ strike.

Serveral strikes at reverse. Fine condition.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Zeppelin Mail Lakehurst to Germany 1929

USA, Germany: Color postcard of “Bambergers Dept. Store, Market St. Newark, N.J.”, sent on August 6, 1929.



Attached are 4 stamps, tied by Newark cancellations. Additional large, violet First Round The World Flight, U. S. Air Mail.
Sent via “Graf Zeppelin”. Slight corner creasing, otherwise fine condition.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Zeppelin Postcard from 1929: Lettland, Libau

Zeppelin postal card 1929. Libau, Lettland, red mit Luftschiff „Graf Zeppelin“ befoerdert - strike. 50 Pfennig stamp with clear cancellation.



Paris Gare du Nord 24. X. 1929-cancellation at reverse.
Fine condition.