1913 (Oct. 20) Zeppelin “SACHSEN” official 5h postal card (showing the airship over Haida) with frank tied by superb strike of the Sachsen cds (Sieger type II) for Haida (Bohemia), traces of clear glue (possible removable and not detracting), else very fine and rare (Sieger 9 Ac, € 500) (Image)

1913 Zeppelin “Sachsen,” official 5h ppc of the airship with frank cancelled by strong strike of the special Flugplatz Haida. Bohmen cds (Type I, dated 20.Oktober 1913), addressed to famous dealer Rudolf Friedl in Vienna, charming, very fine (Sieger 9Aa) (Image)

1922-27, Group of 9 Airmail covers or cards incl. one Kronen / Schilling mixed franking, 7 are reg’d and one Express, and all are to foreign destinations incl. Italy, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany, cancels incl. couple with red Wien airmail cds, special pictorial cds for Vienna to Rome FFC (1927, Mü 133, Sa. 100, € 120), very attractive lot, very fine overall (9) (Est. € 220/280) (Image)

1925 (29 August) Kreuzer / Schilling airmail mixed franking cover to Warsaw, franking incl. the scarcer 400Kr value (also 600Kr) plus 50gr in other stamps (2 airs) sent to important philatelist Rachmanow, large s/l Flugpost hs, bs 31 August, the last day of validity of the Kronen stamps, very fine (Image)

1929 Zeppelin Orientfahrt, two covers flown from Vienna showing together both types & colours of the cachet, the steel cachet cover addressed to Alexandria, both with 50g or 1S frankings, very fine overall (Sieger 23 I & II, € 400) (Image)

1929 Zeppelin Austria Flight, ppc (of the LZ127 in flight) with 10g tied at Wien on 2.V.29, two strikes alongside of the “on board” cds for the same day (but the year in ERROR reads “1928” – see Sieger footnote), non-philatelic message, very fine and rare thus (Sieger 25 a var., € 375) (Image)

1929-36 Graf Zeppelin & Hindenburg Flights, great lot of 10 covers or cards, many with Bird or Pilot airs as franking, some quite scarce legs here, mostly very fine (Sieger 26, 27, 30Aa, 57L, 57N, 116D, 117A, 238A, 286, 401 [1st Hindenburg postal flight]; € 2’065) (Est. € 700/900) (Image)

1930 (May) Zeppelin South America Flight, ppc with 3S and 50g Birds tied at Wien Flugpost office (8.V.30), official and private 3-line cachets and label for “Santa Cruz de Tenerife” (overflight 21 May) and dropped at Praia, CAPE VERDE ISLANDS with 21 MAI.30 receiver, sent on to Wien with 12.VI.30 receiver, clean and attractive example of this scarce leg (only 103 dropped), very fine (Sieger 57 J, € 335) (Image)

1931 Zeppelin Austria Flight, cover franked by cplt. Rotary ovpts. plus 10g and pair of 20g Airs, all tied at Vienna on 8.VII.31 to cover with triangular and pictorial cds cachets (latter dated 12.VII.31), same-day F’hafen arrival, ret’d to Vienna (next-day bs), scarce franking, very fine (Sieger 116) (Image)

1931 (29 August) Zeppelin 1st South America Flight, pc with 3.50S franking tied at Wien (27.VIII.31 cds), flown first to Berlin and with Berlin-F’hafen cachet, endorsed for flight to Pernambuco but with Rio arrival (4.IX.31), sent back to Austria and with 21.IX.31 Wien receiver, scarce and very fine (Sieger 124 Ca, € 225; only 97 flown via Berlin) (Image)

1931 (October) Zeppelin Meiningen Flight pc, MIXED FRANKING with Germany 1RM Zeppelin tied at Meiningen (11.10.31 airport cds), Austrian 25g franking previously tied at Vienna on Oct. 8, with Vienna and Nürnberg transits of Oct. 9 (plus boxed airmail hs) and with F’hafen receiver of Oct. 11, only 17 items flown from Meiningen, very fine (Sieger 132 Ba, € 450+) (Image)

1932 (March) Zeppelin 1st South America Flight, pc with MIXED FRANKING of Austria 50g (x2) tied at Wien-Aspern on March 19 and arriving in Berlin the same day, with Germany 1RM Zeppelin plus 25pf Castle tied at Berlin on March 20, red connecting flight cachet, Rio bs (24.III.32), very fine showpiece (Sieger 138 B, € 400) (Image)

1933 Graf Zeppelin 2nd South America Flight reg’d cover with 4S total franking (5 stamps) tied by 31.V.33 Vienna cds, F’hafen transit (June 3) and green flight cachet, reverse with several Buenos Aires bs (June 7 or 8), lovely, very fine, only 120 flown (Sieger 214, € 140) (Image)

1933 (July) Zeppelin 3rd South America Flight, reg’d pc from the WIPA exposition (2 different cds of 29.VI.33) tying 2.60S total franking, also “WIPA 1933 / Sezession Wien” reg’n label, sent via Berlin (arrival ds and connecting flight cachet on reverse) and dropped at BARCELONA (3.JUL.33 bs), only 20 items carried from Austria via Berlin, flight cachet and s/l destination cachet (struck on board), very fine (Sieger 219, € 400) (Image)

1933 (Oct.) Zeppelin Chicago Flight, reg’d round trip ppc with 10.10S total franking (10g on back) tied at Vienna (Oct. 10), flown via Berlin (connecting flight cachet), Vienna transit (Oct. 12) and F’hafen final receiver (2.11.33), attractive and scarce, very fine (Sieger 238 E, € 550) (Image)

1950-53 “Birds” set of 7, each with partial cds cancel, very fine (Image)