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Postal Auction March 2024 - 342

Bids to be received by Thursday 21st of March 2024 1:00 PM

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Lot 73
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1936 (4th May) LZ129 1st North America Flight Cover (few wrinkles) to Hannover from Frankfurt bearing LZ129 Zeppelin defins 50pf & 75pf tied BAHNPOST cds with red airship cachet alongside. The airship was destroyed by fire 14 months later while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station USA.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 74
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1936 (June) LZ129 cover 75pf & 100pf tied DRESDEN cds sent to USA with good strike of red NORDAMERIKA airship cachet alongside. Manuscript am 19 June, typed By return flight of Hindenburg.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 75
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1938 (1st December) LZ130 1st Sudetenland Flight plain postcard 50pf tied RHEIN MAIN Flug und Luftschiffen cds to Baden with red airship cachet alongside. The airship was staffed by 62 crew members and the Graff Zeppelin II made 30 flights in 11 months in 1938-39 some being propaganda publicity flights with air ministry staff to conduct radio surveillance and measurements in WWII.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 76
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1938 (1st December) LZ130 1st Sudetenland Flight plain postcard 50pf tied RHEIN MAIN Flug und Luftschiffen cds sent locally with good strike of red airship cachet alongside. The airship was staffed by 62 crew members and the Graf Zeppelin II made 30 flights in 11 months in 1938-39 some being propaganda publicity flights with air ministry staff to conduct radio surveillance and measurements in WWII.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 77
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1938 (1st December) LZ130 1st Sudetenland Flight postal stationery card 5pf uprated with 45pf defins tied RHEIN MAIN Flug und Luftschiffen cds to Frankfurt Main with red airship cachet alongside. The airship was staffed by 62 crew members and the Graff Zeppelin II made 30 flights in 11 months in 1938-39 some being propaganda publicity flights with air ministry staff to conduct radio surveillance and measurements in WWII.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 78
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

1939 (13th August) LZ127 PPC 50pf tied RHEIN MAIN Flug und Luftschiffen cds sent to Hamburg with EGER illus. cachet in black, and Zeppelin illus cachet in red.

Estimate £ 85.00
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Lot 79
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

Collection of Postcards with a wide variety of airships and related persons from France and Germany noted LZ77 crashed wreckage from 1916 crash from ground fire, 1916 coloured PPC Zeppelin brought down in flames over Enfield 1916, etc, 52 cards.

Estimate £ 400.00
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Lot 80
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

Iceland: 1931 Zeppelin flight printed cover for the Reykjavik to Friedrichshafen bearing Iceland 2kr Zeppelin overprint tied local cds with flight cachet green triangle alongside, typed addr, very fine. Sieger 114d.

Estimate £ 85.00
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Lot 81
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS

Liechtenstein: 1936 (1 May) Zeppelin plain postcard for Europe - North America flight to New Jersey bearing 10r & 1fr airs tied TRIESENBERG cds, flight cachet and New York arrival on obverse. Sieger 408B.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 82
POSTCARDS

Esperanto: Circa 1910 postcard depicting photo of a group of Friends from Neutral Moresnet with 50+ women, men and children surrounding a car and entitled Esperantista Grupo de Amikejo (Neutra Moresneto). Dr William Molly wanted to make this neutral area the first nation to speak Esperanto as its main language.

Estimate £ 20.00
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Lot 83
POSTCARDS

EUROPE - Early to middle periods well filled shoebox of town and village postmarks for France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Gibraltar Paquebot, Belgium, Cape Colony, GB from EDVII onwards with many nice town CDS's, USA, Germany, 1911 Levant, Palestine etc, for approx 570 different PPCs, lots of greetings, Views, topographical etc.

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 84
POSTCARDS

FRANCE: 1903-1920 Shoebox of postcards from the turn of the 20th century mainly a correspondence to Vosges mostly postally used with a variety of defins, some on obverse from a good range of different towns, all sorts of topics including nice range of Luna theme park Water Chute, Les Roues Diaboliques, Scenic Railway, La Riviere Mystery, Japanese card from Paris, Greetings, plus large group of unused, large quantity mainly all different, nice original lot. (Approx 350+).

Estimate £ 175.00
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