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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.
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.
1938 (Dec) LZ130 Sudetenland red flight cachet on cover bearing 12pf red Hindenberg tied RHEIN MAIN airmail cds and single line Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin h/s in black, with REICHENBERG 3 SUDETENGAU backstamp.
1938 (Dec) LZ130 Sudetenland red flight cachet on long cover (vertical fold) bearing 1938 Winter Relief Fund set of 9 tied RHEIN MAIN airmail cds with REICHENBURG 3 SUDETENGAU backstamp.
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.
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.
Group of covers circa 1938 related to Zeppelin 1938 100th Birthday flight, Brazil Zeppelin flight cover Austria 1937 (July) Int. Congress Zeppelin illus card for Biology and Medicine. 1941 USA by Clipper flight cover censored to Holland. (6).
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.
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.
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.
Moresnet: Postcards collection of 14 examples unused and used from 1880s to 1908 each depicting local stamps of the Moresnet local post. Noted 1909 with MORESNET single line boxed h/s, Calamine Kelmis, Map of the area etc, some mixed. (14).
North Pole Mail: 1925 The Trans Polar Flight Expedition preprinted card in commemoration of Amundsen Polar Flight attempt. Sent New Jersey to Christiana postal card 2c black tied Woodbury HJ cancel, uprated on arrival with Norway 25o red Polar Post & 5o posthorn tied KINGS BAY 1925 cds cancel.
