1872 Issue 10gr grey in horizontal strip of 3 tied to fragment in combination with 5Gr large shield postmarked ‘STRAELEN 5.11.73’, small margin/perf. faults but with postmark only very scarce, cert Pfenninger, Mi 12, 22 € 6500++ (Image)

1873-74 Large shield 9kr reddish brown & brown (sign.Calves), each tied to folded letter(sheet) by boxed ‘FRANKFURT a.M.’ to France, also 2 1/2Gr on 2 1/2Gr tied to lettersheet by horse-shoe postmark of Hamburg to Messina, fine to very fine (Image)

1885 (Jul 23) Envelope FROM ENGLAND with 1880-83 20pf ultramarine tied by English cancel of Manchester, with ms “T” and “40” denoting that it wasn’t accepted, Hamburg bs, very fine and unusual (Image)

1889 IMPERFORATE PROOFS of 3Pf, 25Pf and 50Pf mint hinge remainders, very fine & scarce, Mi 45PUII, 49PUII, 50PUII € 1150 (Image)

1900 1M to 5M with ‘Specimen’ overprint, no hinges but gum problems (probably taken off from sample cartons) otherwise very fine & scarce, cert. Ludin (Image)

1900 “Vineta Provisional” 3PF handstamp in violet on 5pfg green bisect mint, very fine & extremely rare (Mi. €13’000), cert. Bühler (1968) (Image)

1902 Germania Issue “Deutsches Reich” without watermark in complete IMPERFORATE set, never hinged or minim. hinge traces, fine & scarce, Mi 68U-77U (Image)

1923 Rhein-Ruhr Aid 20Mk showing INVERTED 1000Mk surcharge, never hinged, sign.Dr. Pirl and others, cert. Peschl, Mi 260KI €2800 (Image)

1923 Infla 800 thousand on 500M, marginal pair on ppc from Salzuflen (8.12.23) to Geisenfeld, Oberbayern, fine & scarce (Image)

1923 Cover to Rumania franked Mi. 331b (x17) +327A (x4) +322 (x30) tied by München 12.11.23 cds, arrival cds, faulty, scarce, cert. Tworek (Image)

1931 (July 24-31) Zeppelin Polar Flight cover flown from F’hafen (24.7.31 cds) to Leningrad (25.VII.31 pictorial arrival) franked by special ovpt. 2RM & 4RM values, also card flown on same leg with 1RM tied by 25.7.1931 “on board” cds, the cover sent on to Coburg (Bavaria) and signed Roumet, tiny envelope faults else very fine (Sieger 119 B, Mi. € 1’360+) (2) (Image)

1932 (Sept.) Zeppelin 7th South America Flight from Poland, reg’d cover franked one both sides with pair and 2 blocks of the 45gr Biplane and one 20gr, all tied by Warsaw airmail cds (19.IX.32), sent via Berlin connecting flight to Pernambuco (20.IX.32 bs), attractive and very scarce (Sieger 183 B) (Image)

1938 (Dec 2) Deutsche Lufthansa crash of the Berlin-Baghdad flight near Vienna, reportedly the only known cover (though Nierinck illustrates another) from a small part of the mail recovered. It had been returned to sender, and is offered together with letter (small faults) from Chemnitz P.O. datelined 31 May 1939 replying to the sender’s query about the circumstances (not, as Nierinck states, enclosed with the recovered mail) (Nierinck 381202a) (Image)

1939 (Aug 31) Deutsche Lufthansa crash by “Karl Huchmuth” from Berlin to London which crashed on takeoff from Hannover killing all aboard, a partial severely burned postcard returned to sender with unlisted special label “Diese Sendung ist aus einem / verbranten Flugzeug” and return s/l ds (of 5.9.) plus earlier hs from Köln stating recipient unknown, very few items have survived (Nierinck 390831 variety) (Image)

1944-45 Inselpost Rhodos rouletted with Zagreb overprint Mi Type b/plate I/2 never hinged (minimal tiny rough spot) and same stamp type b/plate I/1 on cover dated 23.3.45 to Wallsee/Salzburg/Ostmark (cover reduced by about 1cm at bottom, 2 vertical creases at left), otherwise fine and with all necessary ds readable, scarce in relation with Ostmark (Image)