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Danzig, 1930 (May 18-21) South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Cape Verde (Michel 63I), card franked with 2.75g postage canceled Danzig, May 6, with all appropriate markings, Very Fine. Only 20 cards and five covers from Danzig were carried. Michel €750 ($840) Suggested Bid $350-500 (Image)
Danzig, 1930 (May 18-21) South America Flight, U.S. Mail, Friedrichshafen - Friedrichshafen (Michel 68), card franked with 9g postage canceled Danzig, May 12, with both German & American flight cachets and Jun 6 Friedrichshafen backstamp, Very Fine. Michel €750 ($840) Suggested Bid $300-400 (Image)
Danzig, 1933 (Oct 14-17), Century of Progress Flight, Friedrichshafen - Pernambuco (Michel 347b), card to Buenos Aires franked with 2.80 postage canceled Danzig, Oct 7, with red Zeppelin and Berlin connecting flight cachets; Buenos Aires receiver not struck up, otherwise Very Fine. Michel €380 ($430) Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Michel €380 ($430) Suggested Bid
Opening US$ 200.00
Sold...US$ 190.00
Closed..Mar-16-2021, 11:33:54 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 754
Lot No: 6084
Symbol: Cat No: 165Aa I-II
Egypt, 1931 (Apr 11-13), Egypt Flight, Return, Cairo - Friedrichshafen (Michel 165Aa I-II), card & cover franked with the 50m & 100m Zeppelin overprints, respectively (C3a, C4) - the 50m with the "1951" error - canceled Cairo, Apr 11, with Apr 13 Friedrichshafen receivers, both addressed to H. Sieger in Württemberg, Very Fine. Michel €500 ($560) Suggested Bid $200-300 (Image)
Europe, 1930 South America Flight, seven different originating in Zeppelin Treaty States (Michel 64), Danzig card to Rio; Liechtenstein (2) card to Pernambuco (small edge tear) and cover to Rio; Saar card to Rio; Spain cover to Seville - Rio, cover Seville to Seville; and Switzerland cover to Pernambuco; all with appropriate markings, Fine to Very Fine. Michel €1,770 ($1,980) Suggested Bid $400-600 (Image)
Michel €1,770 ($1,980) Suggested
Opening US$ 600.00
Sold...US$ 600.00
Closed..Mar-16-2021, 11:36:06 EST
Sold For 600
Sale No: 754
Lot No: 6086
Symbol: Cat No: 128Ad var.
Germany, Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von, ALS, about 4½"x7" (folded), datelined Stuttgart, Apr 1, 1900, and signed "Gv. Zeppelin"; with a small, perforated Zeppelin-Eckener Fund label hinged at the upper left (not original to the letter); two small punched holes at the top, Very Fine. Written just three months before the first test flight of his LZ 1. Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image)
Suggested Bid $500-750
Opening US$ 550.00
Sold...US$ 550.00
Closed..Mar-16-2021, 11:38:09 EST
Sold For 550
Sale No: 754
Lot No: 6088
Symbol:
Germany, Lempertz, Dr. Eberhard,an aeronautical engineer, inventor and commander of several early airships; signature, "Dr. Lempertz" on a 1928 America Flight Zeppelin cover to Chicago; canceled Friedrichshafen, Oct 7, and backstamped New York on Oct 16 and Chicago the next day, Very Fine. A rare Zeppelin collateral autograph. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Germany, 1912, LZ 11 "Viktoria Luise" flown card (Michel 11Cc), Zeppelin picture postcard to Detroit, Mich. franked with a 10pf Germania tied by one of two strikes Aug 28, 1912 onboard cancel; card pictures Viktoria Luise over the airfield at Gotha; message in English reads, in part, "My first sail on a 550 footer. I am writing this on board the Louise high in the air above the mountains near Gotha on our way to Frankfurt", Fine to Very Fine. Very scarce to a foreign destination. Michel €400+ ($450) Suggested Bid $300-400 (Image)
Germany, 1913, LZ 17 "Sachsen" flown card (Michel 17Ba), 5pf Kaiser Wilhelm 25th Jubilee commemorative view card to Hamburg with purple Jun 20, 1913 onboard datestamp and a Hamburg c.d.s. of the same date; card pictures an aerial view of Baden-Baden, Very Fine. Michel €1,000 ($1,120) Suggested Bid $400-600 (Image)
Germany, 1914, LZ 17, "Sachsen", Liegnitz Flight (Michel 17 var.), picture postcard picturing the airship in its hangar at Liegnitz, bearing the Special stamp (Mi. 11a) tied by the Special postmark "Flugpost (Liegnitz) A.D. Katzbach, 11. 6. 14" and franked with a 5pf Germania tied by a Herischdorf c.d.s., Jul 14 c.d.s.; the message is datelined "Herishdorf near Karmbrunn, also on Jul 14., Very Fine,
The "Sachsen" was in service to the navy from December 17, 1913 until April 9, 1914 and was taken over by the army on August 1, 1914. This card was apparently purchased as a souvenir at the airfield, with the stamp and postmark already applied, during the three and a half-month period when the airship was back in private hands and was then mailed normally . Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image)
Germany, 1919, LZ 120 "Bodensee", flown card (Michel 120Ec), DELAG Zeppelin card picturing a Zeppelin passenger cabin with an Oct 16 onboard datestamp and a 15pf Germania tied by a Berlin c.d.s. of the same date. Michel €500 ($560) Suggested Bid $200-300 (Image)
Germany, 1919, LZ 120 "Bodensee", flown card (Michel 120Ec), DELAG Zeppelin card picturing an aerial view of Leizig's Augustusplatz with a Sep 21 onboard datestamp and a pair of 5pf Germanias tied by a red manuscript "X" with offset of two partial Munich c.d.s.s on the reverse, Fine to Very Fine. Michel €500 ($560) Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Germany, 1928 (Jul 28) Southwest Germany Flight, Stuttgart Drop (Michel 2Ic), real photo Zeppelin postcard with red Jul 28 onboard datestamp and stamps canceled at Stuttgart on the same day., Very Fine. Michel €350 ($390) Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Germany, 1928 (Sep 20) Southwest Germany Flight, Offenburg Drop plus America Flight (Michel 2Ic),unfranked Zeppelin-Eckener Fund card postmarked Offenburg, Sep 20; addressed to "Albert Lehmann, Crew Airship Graf Zeppelin, Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. with red Oct 15 onboard datestamp, the day the Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, Fine to Very Fine. A unique usage apparently carried by Lehmann, who would later die in the crash of the Hindenburg. Michel €650 ++ ($730) Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image)
Germany, 1928 (Oct 11), Graf Zeppelin flight to America, a trio of envelopes from the flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst; the first is autographed by Hugo Eckener and Grace M Hay Drummond Hay, in addition to 4 values of the Eagle airmail stamp, the 4RM Zeppelin issue is used for the first time; the second has a pair of the 2RM stamps and is signed by C E Rosendahl; the last envelope has the 4RM Zeppelin stamp and the autograph of the representative of the press, Karl von Weigand; the lot includes a lovely 20 page booklet circulated by the Chicago Herald and Examiner. Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image)
Germany, 1928 (Oct 11-15) America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Lakehurst (Michel 7), cover franked with a 4m Zeppelin (C37) tied by an Oct 7 Friedrichshafen c.d.s.; boldly signed at the bottom by Capt. "Ernst A. Lehmann"; Lehmann would later die in the crash of the Hindenburg, Very Fine. Suggested Bid $250-350 (Image)
Germany, 1929 (Mar), Graf Zeppelin Orient flight, 6 envelopes and 3 postcards from the Mar 1929 flight; all originate at Friedrichshafen; 4 travel to Chicago, while others go to Alexandria, Cairo, Karachi, Germany, and Budapest;this was the first ship with a post office and these all were serviced there; 2 have the 2RM zeppelin stamp; bonus, at least a dozen pages of scrapbook with period newspaper clippings in English and German; 9 flown items. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.2 lbs. Suggested Bid $750-1,000 (Image)
Germany, 1929, Graf Zeppelin Mediterranean Sea Flight, delightful group of superior examples from the Mediterranean Sea flight; includes a card (1RM) and letter (2RM Zeppelin stamp) with brand new cancel originating in Friedrichshafen; card and envelope that also have the S. Remo hand stamp from 25 Apr 1929; there is also an interesting pair with Austrian stamps that started in Vienna before traveling to Friedrichshafen, one is addressed to Madrid with the appropriate receiver mark on the reverse; 6 very clean examples. Suggested Bid $400-600 (Image)
Germany, 1929 (Mar 25), Orient Flight, Er Ramle Drop (Michel 18Ib,i), card and cover with Er Ramle receivers, the card (a real photo of the Zeppelin in flight) franked with a 1m Eagle tied by a Mar 24 Friedrichshafen c.d.s.; the cover with a Mar 26 onboard cancel, Very Fine. Michel €530 ($590) Suggested Bid $200-300 (Image)
