Lot 64 POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

1937 (4 May) MAIL VIA AIRSHIP HINDENBURG - Registered cover Tangier to New York originally for airmail transport on the Hindenburg but both airmail and label crossed out in blue crayon and returned to the sender bearing a multi franked GB EDVIII ½d (3), 1d (3), 1½d (3), 2½d (2) tied REGISTERED TANGIER oval cancels. Possibly intended for flight on the Hindenburg which crashed on 6th May 1937. It crashed and burned at Lakehurst Naval Air station attempting to dock. The cover could not be carried on the ill fated ship so it was returned to Gibraltar, backstamped GIBRALTAR 5th May REGISTERED oval and further conveyed by normal means after arriving in New York on 13th May. Unusual and interesting.