This commercial cover from Belgium was flown by the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on the 9th 1933 South America Flight (continued as the Chicago Flight) and is correctly franked at the second weight unit (5 - 10 grams). There are certainly not many commercial zeppelin covers addressed to Lima, Peru.
A second look at the cover shows a purple cachet below the address field: «Recibida por Correo Ordinario», which means that this cover was received at Lima by ordinary surface mail. But why was an airmail cover flown on the Chicago Flight received by surface mail?
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The Vaduz-Lausanne-Flight of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on June 10, 1931 is well connected with the zeppelin mail from Liechtenstein which was taken on board at Vaduz, Liechtenstein and dropped later at Lausanne, Switzerland. Liechtenstein issued two zeppelin stamps with face values of 1 and 2 Francs for this flight.
The philatelic documentation about this flight is more or less limited to the Liechtenstein zeppelin mail and their numerous varieties. There is not much information available about the actual zeppelin flight.
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In October 1936, the Chase Bank in Shanghai, China sent an ordinary commercial airmail cover to the Banco Germanico de la America del Sud in Buenos Aires in Argentina. They surely did not know what they were sending from Shanghai to Buenos Aires. For them it was just another commercial bank cover, but for aerophilatelists this became, 72 years later, the only recorded zeppelin cover from China. [READ MORE]
It was the 21st flight of the Siemens-Schuckert airship which was undertaken on May 17, 1911. Not much is known about this flight, and even the airship-postcard flown on that flight does not say much about the flight itself. We only learn that the sender wrote from an airtrip over Berlin. [READ MORE]
At first sight it seems that this Liechtenstein dispatch on the 1936 Olympia Flight to Berlin of airship LZ-129 HINDENBURG is nothing spectacular. The purple-red zeppelin flight cachet is nice and so is the late usage of the red Liechtenstein zeppelin stamp, which was issued earlier that year for the 1st North America Flight. [READ MORE]
Checking out the numbers of flown U.S. dispatches on the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight unveils an interesting point. The specialized catalogues Sieger and Michel list the numbers of flown U.S. covers for all flight legs except Miami-Seville and Miami-Friedrichshafen. Are the numbers lost or were no numbers recorded for Miami dispatches sent by the zeppelin to Seville or Friedrichshafen? [READ MORE]
Neither Sieger nor Michel list Greek Zeppelin mail for the 8th North America Flight of the airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. This is strange, because Greek mail is listed in both catalogues on the preceeding 7th North America Flight and again on the following 9th North America Flight. But not on the 8th North America Flight. Even the experts failed ...[READ MORE]
In an article from «Il Collezionista» (issue 1958/9), Piero Gall explains that mail dispatched from Rome to South America from the 1933 Romfahrt was placed in sealed bags which were not opened in Friedrichshafen. This explains why no German markings are found on Italian mail destined for South America via connection to ...[READ MORE]
September 18, 2003 marked the 6th anniversary of the first Zeppelin NT
flight and also the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the airship LZ 127 GRAF
ZEPPELIN. Two reasons for the Pestalozzi Kinderdorf charity organisation to fly
special NT-Zeppelin mail.
It was a sunny and warm day when the Zeppelin NT BODENSEE...[READ MORE]
Abwürfe, die ins Wasser fielen....
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