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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.
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.
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.
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.
India: Karachi Camp; 1906 creased postcard of the Zoological Gardens bearing India ½d green tied part KARACHI CAMP / 26 JL 06 cds cancel with additional KARACHI CAMP / DUE / ONE ANNA black horseshoe h/s, addr to Sterkstoom S. Africa.
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.
United States: Nice unused collection in a shoebox of US post office buildings from around the states, mainly coloured circa 1940s to 1950s, all in sleeves, very fine, approx. 225. High retail potential.
1900 Manchester Philatelic Society War Fund VRI label in blue and lilac in complete sheet of 12 mint, right margin has small part missing, attractive block.
1960 US Poster stamp America Yes! Communism No! Anti Communist Congress complete sheet of 100 mint / unmounted mint, fine.
Argentina: 1916 $14.60 Intendencia Municipal de la Capital Unused in brown and green in a part watermarked sheet of 14. Scarce block.
