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Postal Auction November 27th 2025 - 364

Bids to be received by Thursday 27th of November 2025 1:00 PM

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Lot 61
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

1930 (May 22) Europe Pan America Round Trip Flight, Porto Alegre Brazil to New York on postcard of Port Alegre with Graf Zeppelin 5000r green USA Graf Zeppelin overprint in black, and 300r red defin tied SYNDICATO CONDOR LTD / PORTO ALEGRE 22 / MAI / 30 cancel with violet Europe Pan-American cachet, RECIFE CDS on obverse, mainly fine, Sieger 59 D.

Estimate £ 180.00
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Lot 62
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

1933 (29th August) Zeppelin Round the world flight 4th Anniversary cachet Yonkers USA tied USA 1½c wavy line cancel violet Aug 29 cachet alongside.

Estimate £ 55.00
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Lot 63
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

1936 (23 March) LZ129 plain cover 100pf tied Friedrichschafen cds sent to Hamburg with red Luftschiff LZ129 / befordert h/s. Typed Mit Luftschiff LZ129 top left.

Estimate £ 48.00
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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.

Estimate £ 80.00
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Lot 65
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

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 66
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

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 67
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

Germany: 1931 Graf Zeppelin July Polar Flight cover bearing 4m sepia tied Freidrichschafen 24.7.31 CDS addr to USA and Polar Flight cachet in red alongside with FIRST INTOURIST / EXPEDITION / ICE-BREAKER MALIGN on reverse in violet and French Brise Glace Malyguin / Artique 27 VI 31 on obverse. Fine and scarce for these, Frost 3) 127-127A ($1800).

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 68
POSTCARDS

Cats: 1940 - 1970 Fantasy kitty cats postcards (8) in nice condition by AFKH illustrators. Unused very fine including "Anthropomorphic cats dancing on the roof ". Nice little set.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 69
POSTCARDS

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.

Estimate £ 22.00
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Lot 70
POSTCARDS

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.

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 71
REVENUES & CINDERELLA

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.

Estimate £ 80.00
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Lot 72
REVENUES & CINDERELLA

A useful assembly on Hagner incl some nicely used on covers including France 1946-7 Cannes Film Festival (4), Federated Malay States 1926 $250 (Barefoot 8), Australia 1994-5 Wetlands M/S $10 x 4, Cook Is. 1967 $10 on £5 U/M, $2 on £1 pink U/M, Iceland Vacation Savings, Ireland Sinn Fein labels, 1922 I.R.A. labels (3), East Africa 1903 1r, 2r & 10r, Sarawak Jap. Occup., Sierra Leone, Thailand Health Revenues on 1953 document, Spain 1939 patriotic overprints, USA Duck Hunting blocks of 4 for 1960, 1965-67 U/M, Dept of War 12c rose, 15c rose mint / U/M. Interesting group.

Estimate £ 380.00
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