AIR MAIL and ZEPPELIN World A-Z

Lot number 4381 Quality: ✉

Argentina : 22.5.1935 N° 445A (Mi. Zeppelin Specialised), LZ 127 South America Flight cover sent from Buenos Aires to Danzig, Germany, bearing regular Argentinian franking and zeppelin flight cachet on the front, arrival c.d.s. on the back, an uncommon destination, vf

Lot number 4382 Quality: ✉

Argentina : 21.5.1930 N° 68Fa (Mi. Zeppelin Specialised), LZ 127 Argentinian Flight cover addressed to Herne, Germany and franked with Argentinian zeppelin stamps bearing the blue overprint (4 x 50c + 1P), as well as a normal 12c stamp, "First Europe Pan-America Round Flight" special cachet in violet and Freidrichshafen arrival c.d.s. on the back, vf

Lot number 4383 Quality: ✉

Argentina : 20.9.1931 N° 222Ba (Mi. Zeppelin Specialised), LZ 127 South America Flight cover sent from Buenos Aires to Lorch, Germany and bearing airmail + normal stamps, triangular zeppelin flight cachet alongside on the front and Friedrichshafen arrival c.d.s. on the back, vf

Lot number 4384 Quality: ✉

Belgium, 1925 "round-the-world" postcard originating in Belgium (Antwerp, 3.10.1925) and sent via airmail to France, Swizerland, Austria and, eventually, to Bucharest, Romania where it arrived on 24.10.1925, on the front it bears stamps from all of the countries it passed through except Romania and on the back it bears numerous airmail postal markings including two strikes of a framed "FLUG AUSGEFALLEN" ("flight cancelled") from either Swittzerland or Austria, all in all very good condition for an item of this nature and scarce because of two reasons: the fact that its journey ended in Romania (not common for round-the-world cards) and the fact that it travelled by airmail, vf

Lot number 4385 Quality: ✉

British Empire 1930s Imperial Airways crash mail fascinating collection profusely written up on exhibition pages, consisting of 10 covers each with extensive context and explanations provided, the nature of the covers themselves is usually rather exotic and certainly uncommon, given that Imperial Airways operated almost exclusively on the "far flung" routes of the British Empire, predominantly in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, South Africa, Middle and Far East, etc., overall a great collection and an equally great basis for expansion, vf/f

Lot number 4386 Quality: ✉

Egypt: 10.4.1931 N° 166 A a I (Mi. Zeppelin Specialised), LZ 127 Egypt Flight picture postcard sent from Cairo to Zürich, Switzerland and franked with the Egyptian 50 on 27m stamp (Michel 156), Friedrichshafen landing postmark, vf

Lot number 4387 Quality: ✉

France: 1930s (mostly) extensive airmail postal history collection consisting of 27 covers mounted and written up on pages, many better items throughout, should be inspected in order to be fully appreciated, vf/f

Lot number 4388 Quality: ✉

Great Britain 12.9.1911 First U.K. Aerial Post dark olive green postcard franked with 1/2d and addressed to London and green envelope franked with 1d and sent to Nottingham, both with special postmark, vf

Lot number 4389 Quality: ✉

Italy: 7.6.1926 N° 64 (Sassone), Padova Settimana Aviatoria official illustrated postcard sent to Milano and franked with a 10c stamp tied by regular slogan postmark, flight cachet alongside in red, vf

Lot number 4390 Quality: ✉

Italy: 4.1.1938 Rome-Brindisi-Athens-Rhodes First Direct Flight lot of 3 covers all sent from Rome to Rhodes (one missing the flap on the back), decorative frankings and arrival postmarks on the back (for two of them), vf

Lot number 4391 Quality: ✉

Italy: 19.3.1940 N° 525 (Sassone), Roma - Locarno Swissair Flight two picture postcards (depicting Hollywood actresses) both addressed to Milano and franked with the 1.25L value of the Railways Centenary issue of 1939 (Sassone 451), transit and arrival postmarks, vf

Lot number 4392 Quality: ✉

1931/25/07 Polarfahrt Leningrad- Nordpol, picture postcard with illustrations of postage stamps and letter (with imperforate), stamps from Russia with polar bear and Zeppelin, vf.

Lot number 4393 Quality: ✉

Uruguay : 9.10.1934 N° 409D (Mi. Zeppelin Specialised), LZ 127 South America Flight cover from Montevideo, Uruguay to Wiesbaden, Germany, regular but nice Uruguayan franking as well as zeppelin flight cachet on the front, Stuttgart transit slogan postmark on the back, vf