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Airmail Postal History continued...

Hindenburg Flights

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1120

401 Ba//453 B

1936 (Mar 23), Hindenburg Flights (Sieger 401 Ba//453 B), 12 cards and envelopes carried on the Hindenburg including On-Board DELAG card (Si 401 Ba) to Konigsberg, uprated postcard (Si 401Aa) to Bonnigheim, On-Board uprated German card (Si 401Ba) to Wurttemberg, pair of envelopes on 1st South American Flight of 1936 (Si 405A), Registered return flight (Si 403), Registered Brussels 7th American Flight (Si 430) from Belgium to Lakehurst, great Austrian aerogram (Si 439) uprated with Airmail adhesives, New York to Rhein-Main (Si 442A), and five cards dropped at Koln including three with On-Board postmarks (Si 453A) and Rhein-Main (Si 453B), Very Fine.
Sieger €395 ($430). (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

1121

406//409

1936 (May 6), 1st American Flight (Sieger 406//409), 14 covers from the 1936 Hindenburg 1st American Flight; five from Germany including Registered Lorch (Si 406E), Registered Frankfurt (Si 406D), Registered Gemunden (Si 406D), Registered Leipzig (Si 406D) on stunning Airmail illustrated envelope to the United States, another illustrated envelope (not registered); also five covers (one Registered) from Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Si 409C); lovely Vatican cover (Si 406C) to Lakehurst, and three from Lichtenstein (postcard with #C15, Registered Triesenberg with C16, and a Registered Triesenberg with both a 1Fr and 2Fr adhesive); surface scuff from paperclip, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger €725 ($780). (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction

1122

406C

1936 (May 06) 1st North American Flight (Sieger 406C), Registered envelope from the train station at Frankfurt to New York; the 75pf Hindenburg stamp has an attached blank area the size of a postage stamp; comes with 2004 cert attested by Dr Helmut Oeschsner, Fine to Very Fine, signed Oechsner, BPP. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-325
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

1123

406 Great B

1936 (May 6) 1st North America Flight (Sieger 406), GB Scott # 216 postmarked in London before adding German C57 for transatlantic flight first to New York and on to Canada; unusual destination, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger €700 ($760). (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $200.00
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1124

409 A, 409 C

1936 1st North America Flight, two different return receivers (Sieger 409 A, 409 C), an interesting pair of homemade Message-Reply cards, each addressed in the first instance to Mr. Max Pruss (commanding captain on the Hindenburg's final flight), with return to either Germany or the US; outgoing German franking of 50pf & 75pf Zeppelin singles, US return postage by 25¢ Clipper (#C20) plus additional 15¢ postage; first shows return receiver Type I on "reply" card, other with Type III receiver on "message" card, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-325
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

1125

423

1936 Olympic Flight, group of nine covers or cards, seven are the normal Rhein-Main postmark, various frankings; the other two are 1.) 1936 3rd North America Flight, a 6+4pf Olympic postal card with 5 additional stamps in the back, sent Registered to Lakehurst; and 2.) 4th North America Flight cover franked with a complete set Summer Olympic stamps, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction

1126

423 a//427 B

1936, Hindenburg Olympic Flight, seven cards & covers, On Board envelope franked with complete Olympic set (Si 423a), On-Board full set on cover to Berlin (Si 427Ab), uprated Olympic stadium postal card (Si 427B), 10 stamps on Frankfurt envelope backstamped at the Berlin train station (Si 427B), a photograph of a track event in progress at the Games, an Olympic pictorial cancel from Garisch on an uprated Winter Olympic postal card (not flown), and a Greek card celebrating the Games with both cancels in Greece and Germany; attractive, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger 423 a//427 B; €465 ($500). (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

1127

427B

1936 (Aug 1) Olympic Games Flight (Sieger 427B), superior example from the flight festooned with several sports adhesives from the Games both front and back, nicely autographed by both Lehman and Eckener, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $110.00
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1128

428

1936 (Aug 4) 6th North American Flight (Sieger 428), three uprated Olympic Games Semi Postal cards sent to America; Registered Berlin at the Olympic Stadium Station, Berlin to Chicago, and an On-Board addressed to New York, Fine to Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $110.00
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1129

428 A

6th North America Flight, trio of items (Sieger 428 A), On-Board cancel of sepia photo postcard (Si 428A) showing Hindenburg emerging from a hanger; envelope with On-Board postmark (Si 428A) autographed by Dr Eckener; and a Registered cover from the Berlin Olympic Village franked with the full Olympic set from the 1936 Games, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger €370 ($400). (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $170.00
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1130

454 var.

1937 (May 6) Intended for 2nd North American Flight (Sieger 454), stunning oversized envelope with several German stamps, including a Scott # B102 souvenir sheet, canceled by seapost on the Europa and intended for the Hindenburg; the May 16th Europa date suggests the philatelic item may have been prepared for the following Hindburg flight, Fine to Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $325-500
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction