Sale No: 5147
Lot No: 10224
Symbol: Cat No: Collection
Worldwide, Classic Airship Postcard Collection, 1908-1939, 85+ postcards, many photocards, of dirigibles and Zeppelins; official ILA card posted in Frankfurt Aug 1909 picturing LZ-5 where Count Zeppelin piloted the airship before the Kaiser prior to turning the airship over to military command; LZ-130 in flight; L-1 depicted just before plunging into the North Sea Sep 1913; main gondola close up of LZ-4 in 1908; Hansa being brought into the Hall at Potsdam near Berlin; Viktoria Luise (LZ-11) landing at Hamburg; rare photo of L-25 used for glider launch complete with torpedo to be used against enemy shipping; English postcard shows Zeppelin raider caught in the search lights over England; LZ-6 on 1909 flight recognizable with the hull's rain-skirt; German Army Zeppelin Z-IV during forced landing at Luneville France detained by French soldiers until drawings and measurements made; an even better image from the encounter with the French; cartoon-like image showing Londoners afraid of Zeppelins in 1915; DELAG official card Hansa ready for liftoff; Sachsen over the city of Meissen; Club card of Army Zeppelin gondola 1917; LZ-4 in sepia moored near floating shed on the Bodensee posted at Friedrichshafen a week after the disaster at Echterdingen; LZ-130 under construction in the hanger; LZ-6 image taken Aug 1909 on flight to Berlin to appear before the Kaiser; Graf Zeppelin and Wilhem II portraits with LZ-4 in flight over countryside; Apr 1909 image of Z-1 at Munich to demonstrate airship to Price Regent Luitpold of Bavaria; LZ-4 with small rectangular rudder on tail a few days before being replaced by large "barn door" rudder; LZ-112 at base L 70; LZ-5 over Leipzig May 1909 on way to Berlin; LZ-113 at base L 71; LZ-62v from base L 30; Hindenburg preparing for flight with Graf Zeppilin overhead; Hindenburg under construction; Hindenburg over Lindau harbor on the Bodensee; a "dub-in" card picturing the LZ-4 during emergency landing at Oppenheim on the Rhine Aug 1908 just prior to Mainz and disaster at Echterdingen; fantastic card picturing LZ-3 and Count Zeppelin inset, card talks about large amount of money being donated by the German people to the Zeppelin fund posted less than a month after the disaster; attractive LZ-4 Eduard Schwarz card 1908; a third card showing French forces on horseback during the 1913 international incident when Captain Gluuud was forced to land at Luneville; official DELAG postcard advertising passenger tickets from the Hamburg-America Line; Zeppelin bombing the fortress of Luttich Belgium; a fantastic curated selection, Very Good to Excellent. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.6 lbs. Suggested Bid $800 (Image)
Suggested Bid $800
Opening US$ 700.00
Sold...US$ 750.00
Closed..Apr-25-2021, 21:00:00 EST
Sold For 750
Sale No: 5147
Lot No: 10225
Symbol:
Worldwide, Very Early Airship Postcards, 1905-1915, 65+ fascinating mostly unused cards of sky cycles, dirigibles, and airships; high percentage are photographic and likely produced in limited quantities; Stanley Vaughn and his Strobel Airship; Kenabenshue's Airship at Ohio State Capitol Grounds; Beachey Airship; Ville de Nancy; Le Balloon "de Marcay"; H M A Parseval; Dr Beach's Airship first flight Jamestown Exposition 1907; LZ-4 lifts off Bodensee in the summer of 1908; La Republique de la Seine; Patrie; Le Dirigeale "Lebaudy"; 1944 letter with explaination, "I took these pictures myself at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904", 6 wonderful unique images; Strobel Airship at the Kansas State Fair in 1908; SL-1 at Mannheim 1911; last flight of Charles Jones in the Boomerang Sep 1908 when it caught fire; Tomlinson dirigible in flight over Hudson-Fulton Celebration 1909; Knox Airship at the Central New York Fair in Oneonta; three wonderful sepia 3.5" square photographs on cardboard of Knabenshue's Dirigible 1908; La Ville De Paris; Naval airship "The Baby"; Knabenshue at Great Cambridge Fair 1907; Patrie over Paris Grand Opera House; Willows II preparing for record flight to London; Silver Queen; "Jupiter" at Toledo; Mr Godet dirigible "Santos Dumont no 6"; Le Dirigeable "Adjudant Reau"; Cromwell Dixon and his Sky-Bicycle; Abservation Ballon Aisne-Front 1918; French Lebaudy in 1911; Locomotion Aerienne "Le Russie" 1909; Le Dirigeable "Republique"; Le Dirigeable "Bayard Clement II"; Le Dirigeable "Colonel Renard"; Le Dirigeable "Liberte"; "Morning Post" national airship; Italian "Citta da Jesi"; German Parseval circa 1915; Army airship "Italia"; Military airship "Beta" at Lockerley 1910; a treasure trove for the lighter than air enthusiast, Very Good to Excellent. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.6 lbs. Suggested Bid $800 (Image)
Suggested Bid $800
Opening US$ 550.00
Sold...US$ 550.00
Closed..Apr-25-2021, 21:00:00 EST
Sold For 550
Sale No: 5147
Lot No: 10227
Symbol: Cat No: Collection
Worldwide, Zeppelins Blanket the Globe, 1930-1939, 7 lovely examples of flown mail aboard the Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg, and Graf Zeppelin II; LZ-127 card from Geneve to Zurich with Swiss airmail stamp; registered cover (Sieger 175A) from 5th South American Flight of 1932, posted Concepcion Chile to Hamburg; Sieger 157B from Stockholm to Recife with Swedish coils for franking; Hindenburg North American flight postmarked Liechtenstein Sep 1936 to New York with German railway Traveling Post Office mark on the reverse; Russian arctic flight from Leningrad with Scott C26 and C28 for franking, registered and dropped to the icebreaker Malygin; Sieger 58B flight from Seville to Lakehurst and forwarded to Chicago; lastly a linen-like card with French postage also cancelled at Rhein-Main; a nice selection, Fine to Very Fine. Suggested Bid $300 (Image)
Suggested Bid $300
Opening US$ 300.00
Sold...US$ 300.00
Closed..Apr-25-2021, 21:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 5147
Lot No: 10230
Symbol: Cat No: Collection
Worldwide, EKKO Radio Stamp & Cover Collection 1920-1950, a once in a lifetime collection of EKKO stamps, stamp albums, and catalogues, includes three EKKO Company Broadcasting Station Stamp albums with a few stamps in each album, Photograph Album with stamps and letters, copies of various articles, 1927 "The Ekko Stamp Album Broadcaster's Edition", radio poster stamps, "The Official 2007 Verified Reception Stamp Catalogue" with prices, radio related postcards, Bonner "The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph", radio related covers, and a few dozen stamps, a truly unique lot, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 10.2 lbs. Suggested Bid $750 (Image)
Suggested Bid $750
Opening US$ 400.00
Sold...US$ 750.00
Closed..Apr-25-2021, 21:00:00 EST
Sold For 750
Sale No: 5147
Lot No: 10241
Symbol: Cat No: Collection
Worldwide, Balance Accumulation late 19th to mid 20th Centuries, several large boxes filled with various groupings of stamps, with one large box filled with several albums worth of loose album pages, one smaller box filled with approximately 500-750 U.S. First Day Covers, another similar smaller box filled with loose issues from around the 1970's and 1980's, many of which are in their original New Issue glassines and finally a box filled with loose material, glassines, stock cards, partial album pages, presentation folders, etcetera filling up a large banker's box, a nice lot with plenty of little $5 to $20+ sets and singles that quickly add up to decent value, generally Fine to Very Fine appearance. Suggested Bid $800 (Image)
