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Zeppelin Flights and Related continued...

Hindenburg LZ 129 Flights continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
5150 13 A imageUnited States, 1936 (May 12-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Return, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Michel 13 A), large cover franked with 53¢ postage made up of 25 different 2¢ stamps, including a "Black Jack", and a 3¢ Texas Centennial cut from a TIPEX souvenir sheet, all canceled 9 May by New York TIPEX handstamps; light U.S. flight cachet, backstamped Frankfurt type II Hindenburg receiver, Frankfurt (Oder) c.d.s. and Berlin c.d.s., all 14 May, Very Fine.
Sieger 409 E.
Michel €450 ($480).
Estimate $250 - 350

A most unusual franking—for the Black Jack collector who has everything. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
5151 13 A imageUnited States, 1936 (May 12-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Return, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Michel 13 A), large cover franked with 63¢ postage made up of 20 different 3¢ stamps (one badly faded), including a 3¢ Columbian, and a 3¢ Texas Centennial cut from a TIPEX souvenir sheet, all canceled 9 May by New York TIPEX handstamps; faint U.S. flight cachet, backstamped Frankfurt type II Hindenburg receiver, Frankfurt (Oder) c.d.s. and Berlin c.d.s., all 14 May, Very Fine.
Sieger 409 E.
Michel €450 ($480).
Estimate $250 - 350. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $250-350
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
5152 13 imageUnited States, 1936 (May 12-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Return, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Michel 13), large cover franked with 40¢ postage including a TIPEX souvenir sheet (778), canceled 9 May by New York TIPEX machine cancel; U.S. flight cachet and Frankfurt type II Hindenburg receiver on front, Very Fine.
Sieger 409 E.
Michel €450 ($480).
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
5153 13 A var. imageUnited States, 1936 (May 12-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Return, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Michel 13 A var.), large cover addressed to London, England franked with 43¢ postage including a plate block of 6 of the 3¢ Rhode Island Tercentenary (777) tied by Providence First Day cancel and having a type II Frankfurt Hindenburg receiver on the front; upon receipt in London, three G.B. stamps, totaling 5½d, were applied and canceled "Docks. B.O. Southampton, 27 May"; then the cover, which had been re-addressed to New York, was carried on the Maiden Voyage of the H.M.S. "Queen Mary" to New York., Very Fine. A marvelous "triple-threat" cover.
Sieger 409 var.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction
5154   imageUnited States, 1936 (Jun 24-26), Hindenburg 3rd North America Flight, Lakehurst to Frankfurt, cover to Cairo, Egypt with two 8¢ (747), 25¢ (C20) & 5¢ (744) tied by 1936 Madison Conn duplexes, on cover to Cairo Egypt, manuscript "Air Mail to Cairo" and "Via Hindenburg", air mail etiquette, with Frankfurt transit and Cairo receiver on reverse; vertical crease at center not affecting stamps, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $500-750
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
5155 12a imageVatican, 1936 (May 6-9), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst (Michel 12a), cover franked with 25c postage tied by Vatican c.d.s.s, 4 May, plus 75c Italian postage tied by Rome c.d.s.s the same day; Frankfurt "c" flight cachet; backstamped Frankfurt (5 May) and New York, Very Fine.
Sieger 406 C; €700 ($750).
Michel €600 ($640).
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
5156 13 imageVenezuela, 1936 (May 12-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, Return, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Michel 13), airmail envelope franked with 3.25b postage tied by Caracas c.d.s.s, 2 May, violet Venezuelan P.A.A.-Hindenburg flight cachet on front with U.S. flight cachet on back in (struck in red to distinguish it from mail originating in to the U.S.), along with Frankfurt type III Hindenburg receiver; cover handstamped "Return to Sender", Very Fine, with 1998 A.P.S. certificate.
Sieger 409 H; €650 ($690).
Michel €900 ($960).
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
5157 43082 Worldwide, 1936 (May 6-14), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, balance (Michel 12/13). 39 covers expertly written up and mounted on 21 exhibit pages; 18 are German dispatches, the rest U.S.; many unusual frankings including two complete sets of the German Summer Olympics issue and three U.S. 50¢ Zeppelins (C18); also includes some nice collateral.
Estimate $500 - 750. 		Suggested Bid $500-750
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
5158 6//63 imageWorldwide, 1936-37, Hindenburg Flights, balance (Michel 6//63). About 65 covers expertly written up on 35 exhibit pages; nearly all 2nd through 10th North America Flights, the others being the First Official mail carrying flight (23 Mar), the Krupp-Switzerland flight (16 June), the Olympic flight, and the aborted Germany flight of 1 May 1937; about 75% are German frankings, the others being mostly U.S. return flights (including one franked with a 50¢ Zeppelin C18), but also including one Liechtenstein (3rd North America Flight), one Luxembourg (8th North America Flight and one Switzerland (9th North America Flight); lots of wonderful frankings as well as some nice collateral.
Estimate $750 - 1,000. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
The Hindenburg Disaster
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
5159   imageNetherlands, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, recovered mail from the Netherlands, cover originating in Netherlands and franked with a 12½c Boy Scout Jamboree (208) tied by Rotterdam-Waalhaven c.d.s., 1 May; addressed to G. Thoolen, c/o Mr. Donald E. Dickson, Wooster, Ohio; typical charring around the edges, but with the address, stamp, cancel and flight cachet fully readable, Very Fine. Only about 165 pieces of partially burned mail were salvaged, 147 of them with U.S. addresses. This is cover no. 13 of the 28 recovered covers originating in the Netherlands.
Michel 63; €15,000 ($15,990). NVPH 454 Aa; €17,500 ($18,660).
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000

THIS IS ARGUABLY THE FINEST OF THE 18 RECOVERED "THOOLEN" NETHERLANDS COVERS AND ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL HINDENBURG CRASH COVERS.

Gerard Thoolen was a stamp dealer in s'Gravenhage (The Hague); Donald E. Dickason, a fellow stamp dealer, was, at the time, a past president of the American Airmail Society . (Image) 		Suggested Bid $8,000-12,000
SOLD for $6,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
5160 63b imageGermany, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, recovered onboard mail (Michel 63b), cover addressed to New York City and bearing a 50pf Hindenburg and the outline of 5 additional stamps which have fallen off, canceled by three strikes of the onboard cancel dated 5 May, the day before the crash; manuscript "3.25", which would have been under two of the lost stamps, indicates that the missing stamps would have been four 50pf stamps and a 75pf, equaling 3.25m; charred around the edges as always, Very Fine. Only 58 of the recovered covers were addressed to Germany., with 1995 G.P.S. certificate.
Sieger 454 Ba; €20,000 ($21,320).
Michel €20,000 ($21,320).
Estimate $7,500 - 10,000

THIS IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL HINDENBURG CRASH COVERS. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $7,500-10,000
SOLD for $6,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
5161 64 imageUnited States, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, New York paquebot mail (Michel 64), cover intended for the return trip, addressed to Görlitz, Germany and franked with 76pf of German postage canceled by mute ovals and by "New York, N.Y., Paquebot, May 10, 1937" duplex handstamp, Very Fine, signed Grabowski.
Sieger 454 Cb; €5,000 ($5,330).
Michel €4,000 ($4,260).
Estimate $1,500 - 2,000

About 175 pieces of uncanceled mail intended for the return trip had been placed in a metal container and, consequently, was able to survive the fire. When the container was recovered, mail to U.S. addresses was forwarded to the Foreign Section in the New York Post Office, which sent the items to the respective addressees’ Postmaster with a request to secure a registered receipt. Those with foreign addresses were canceled and returned by ship to Europe. But since this cover was franked with German stamps, it did not fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Post Office and a U.S. cancel could not be applied. Authorities therefore decided to treat this mail as packet boat mail posted at sea . (Image) 		Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
5162   imageNetherlands, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, recovered mail collateral, three items of collateral relating to the preceding "Thoolen" cover: 1.) The original Post Office Penalty envelope that carried the 17 covers addressed to G. Thoolen c/o Donald E. Dickason from the New York Postmaster to the Postmaster of Wooster, Ohio. 2.) A photostatic copy of the letter of transmittal that accompanied those 17 covers. 3.) An original Memorandum fro Dickason to a collector client, one George W. Bartlett, to whom Dickason had just sold one of the Thoolen covers; in part, "…you have my personal guarantee that he [the Wooster Postmaster] delivered the lot of Hindenburg covers to me personally and that the one sent to you is from that lot. The enclosure envelope [number 2.) above] containing the lot is in my hands and I'll send it along, as you might like to have it to keep with your cover.".
Michel 63 var. NVPH 454 Aa var.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
5163 64 Aa imageUnited States, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, mail intended for return flight (Michel 64 Aa), registered cover franked with 55¢ postage tied by mute ovals with New York postmarks of 6 May on reverse; addressed c/o H.E. Sieger in Germany but marked "Return to Sender" with red Hindenburg failure handstamp; signed by Captains Albert Sammt and Max Pruss, Very Fine.
Sieger 454 Ea; €350+ ($370).
Michel €150+ ($160).
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $500-750
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
5164 64 Aa, b imageUnited States, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, mail intended for return flight (Michel 64 Aa, b), four covers to Germany and intended for the return flight, three of them with U.S. franking, two of those with the Failure handstamp and one without; the fourth cover is franked with the German 50pf & 75pf Hindenburg Airmails, which are uncanceled; it bears the Failure handstamp and is signed by Rev. Carl H. Miller, who ministered to the victims of the crash; his heroic deeds were reported in the Literary Digest of May 29, 1937.
Sieger 454 var.
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
5165   imageGermany, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, passenger list, 4½" x 7½" bi-fold passenger list, Very Fine, rare.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction
5166   imageUnited States, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, newspapers and clippings, May 7//23, full-page or complete issues of New York American (8), Daily News (5), Herald Tribune (8), Journal (7), Mirror (6), Post (4), Sun (4), Times (12), World Telegram (8) + 6 other U.S. papers + German papers (7) telling the complete story of the crash and much of its aftermath, 75 items, an incredible research archive, mild to moderate chipping.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
5167 64 var. imageGermany, 1937 (May 3-7), Hindenburg 1st North America Flight, collateral (Michel 64 var.), mourning card sent by the Zeppelin Airship Construction Co. It reads "Due to the destruction of the airship ‘Hindenburg’ and the death of some of the crew and passengers, we have received many condolences. Only in this way is it possible for us to express to you are thanks for your so kindly expressed sympathies." Included is the original mailing envelope postmarked Friedrichshafen, 14 May 1937., Very Fine.
Sieger 454 var.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

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