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Geoff Reynolds reports
Liechtenstein Olympia Flight

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. But everything has two sides and the big surprise was waiting on the reverse of this ordinary cover. 

The reverse bears a clear strike of the Frankfurt «b» canceller with the rare time «-4» rather than «-3». In John Duggan’s excellent dual language book on the Olympia Flight of LZ-129 HINDENBURG, he writes that «b» and «c» slugs are not known to have been used. Is this then the first Frankfurt «b» canceller which is reported on the Olympia Flight? Maybe other readers would care to check their Olympia Flight mail for similar usage of the «b» or «c» Frankfurt cancellers.


 
 


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WINTER2009

The last ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL for 2009 is a general issue containing eleven articles from the pioneer period up to 1936 zeppelin mail. Among others, a 1913 zeppelin flight of LZ-11 Viktoria Luise is featured as well as British zeppelin mail from 1936 flown by LZ-129 Hindenburg. [READ MORE]

 
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齐伯林邮刊
Fall2009

The international airmail show BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX (November 12-16, 2009; Beijing, China) is the inspiration for this issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL: What do we know about zeppelins and Asia? The answer is a 40-pages and quite unusual issue of the 齐伯林邮刊. [READ MORE]

 
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Summer2009

Atomic propulsion, bombs, rockets, volcanos, a bald Goethe and the Lithuanian national dish - the Summer2009 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL is not what you expect! [READ MORE]

 
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Special issue: Forgeries

A special issue because of current events: Large quantities of new produced zeppelin mail forgeries are currently placed for sale on the worldwide market. The quality of the forgeries is very good.... [READ MORE]

 
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Spring 2009

The program given by Dieter Leder at the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP meeting at the New York Collectors Club makes one of the 13 articles of this issue. The other articles cover the entire scope of zeppelin mail. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
Winter 2008

The next special issue is due in December and is full of information on the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight from 1933. 40 pages are filled with latest research and background information on the flight to A Century of Progress [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
Fall 2008

This issue was released at the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP meeting at WIPA 2008 stamp show at Vienna, Austria. 13 articles on zeppelin mail and memorabilia fill the 32-pages issue. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
Summer 2008

A truly special issue on occation of the 75th anniversary of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Rome Flight from 1933. Fourteen articles fill the 48 pages with fascinating background stories and latest reserach [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
Spring 2008

From early 1912 pioneer Zeppelin mail addressed to Shanghai, China up to the latest Zeppelin mail of the new generation NT airships: The spring 08 Zeppelin Post Journal covers a wide variety of interesting aspects of Zeppelin ... [READ MORE]