General information
COLLECTIONS

In addition to the traditional way of exhibiting collections at philatelic shows, more and more collectors present their collections online in the world wide web.

This link collection gives an overview of the online zeppelin mail and airship memorabilia collections.


 

 


Collections
General zeppelin mail collections

National Postal Museum (Smithsonian)
The zeppelin mail collection of the US-National Postal Museum (Smithsonian).
http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=5&cmd=2&q=zeppelin&f=1&f=2&d_start=&d_end=&c=&lf=3

General zeppelin mail and stamps
From A to Z: The philatelic website of Bill Senkus with the letter Z dedicated to zeppelin mail.
http://alphabetilately.com/Z.html

Zeppelin mail - a thematic collection
The Song Xu-Lung, Beijing collection.
http://www.hbjy88.com/youzhan/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=5605

Zeppelin mail on facebook
The John Brennan album: Worldwide Zeppelin Flight Covers...
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000167075943#!/album.php?aid=32575&id=100001181450852

Interview with Cheryl Ganz on zeppelin mail
Cheryl Ganz talks about her hobby, zeppelin mail and her work as curator.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/an-interview-with-smithsonian-national-postal-museum-curator-and-zeppelin-stamps-expert-cheryl-ganz/


 

 


Collections
Zeppelin mail collections by topic

Airmail at Rhine and Main 1912
A dedicated website for the airmail at Rhine and Main 1912.
http://www.flugpost-rhein-main.de/

Airmail at Rhine and Main 1912
Stamps and covers from 1912: A marvelous exhibition collection online.
http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0275/index0275a.htm

Airmail at Rhine and Main 1912
Torsten Hornungs essay about the 1912 airmails.
http://www.wertfauna.de/?p=3108

Collection of Harold G. Dick
The golden age of passenger airships: The stunning collection of Harold G. Dick.
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/exhibits/haldick/haldick.html

On-board mail dispatched by visitors of the zeppelins
Siegfried Scheike discovered this mail and put his collection online.
http://www.ezeptalk.de/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=128

Hungary 1933 Scout/Jamboree zeppelin mail
The zeppelin mail from the 1933 Scout/Jamboree at Gödöllö in Hungary.
http://www.sossi.org/aero/zeppelinwj33.htm

Come take a ride on the Hindenburg
Hindenburg fact sheet, presentation by Cheryl Ganz at RPSL, April 2010.
http://www.rpsl.org.uk/pdf/hindenburg_fact_sheet.pdf

NT Zeppelin mail, Kinderdorf zeppelin mail
Zeppelin mail of the latest NT airships, organized and dispatched by Pestalozzi Kinderdorf.
http://www.kinderdorf-flugpost.de/zpost.html

Zeppelin-cinderellas and poster stamps
Bill Senkus's collection of poster stamps and cinderellas.
http://alphabetilately.com/ZeppCinds.html


 

 


Collections
Zeppelin mail collections by flight

LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Pan America Flight 1930, Brazilian mail
Arthur Knoth is presenting his research on Brazilian zeppelin mail flown on the 1930 Pan-America Flight.
http://www.aknoth.commercial.de/Phil/index.html

LZ-129 Hindenburg Crash mail 1937
A special study on Dutch crash mail from the 1937 Hindenburg crash, franked with the Dutch Scout stamps.
http://www.slettebo.no/scout/hindenburg.htm


 

 


Collections
Zeppelin mail collections by country

Belgian Congo zeppelin mail
A special study on zeppelin mail from Belgium Congo.
http://www.belgian-congo-study-circle.be/bulletins/137-2.htm

Bolivia airmail and zeppelin mail
A Bolivia airmail collection with lots of Bolivian zeppelin mail.
http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0108/index0108b.htm

Chile: The Airmails (1927-1937)
A Chilean airmail collection with lots of Chile zeppelin mail.
http://www.philatelicdatabase.com/united-states/chile-the-airmails-1927-1937/

Czechoslovakia airmail and zeppelin mail
A Czech airmail collection with lots of zeppelin mail from Czechoslovakia.
http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0080/index0080e.htm

Danzig zeppelin mail
The website of philatelic Danzig expert Ronald "Ronny" van Waardhuizen.
http://www.danzig.org/Gallery-cat_id=179-Zeppelin.html

Denmark and the zeppelins
The postal museum at Copenhagen has special interest in the zeppelin flights to Denmark.
http://mini.ptt-museum.dk/zeppex/en/routes/luftskib.html

Iran zeppelin mail
The most comprehensive collection of zeppelin mail from Iran.
http://www.tambr.net/pah/postalhistory/airmail/zep_graf/slide/Graf%20Zeppelin/album/index.html

Swiss zeppelin mail
Background information on Swiss flights and Swiss zeppelin mail.
http://www.zeppelinpost.ch/?q=home

Swiss zeppelin mail 1929
A website about the Swiss flights of 1929.
http://www.stamp-collecting-world.com/swissstamps_zepp29.html

Zeppelin mail dispatched from Vatican City
The Fr. Edward J. Mullowney collection of zeppelin mail from the Vatican.
http://www.vaticanphilately.org/exhibits/zeppelins/frame_one.htm


 

 


Collections
Airship memorabilia collcetions

Schwabacher needle factory Reingruber, needletins
Zeppelins on needletins pruduced by Reingruber.
http://www.songster.de/dosen/snfr/zeppelin/index.htm

Airship pins
A most comprehensive collection of airship pins.
http://joe-airships.gmxhome.de/

The Aero Conservancy
A collection of aviation memorabilia, includs airship memorabilia
http://www.aeroconservancy.com/


 

 


Collections
Other websites of interest

Trans Atlantic mail by air 1928-1940, DLH Lufthansa, Air France, LATI
http://transatlanticmailbyair.wordpress.com/

Postal History: Aerophilately Resources
http://www.postalhistory.org/sites/aerophilately.htm

Rainbow Stamp News
http://www.rainbowstampclub.blogspot.com/

Aero-Philately Blog
http://aerophilatelist.blogspot.com/

Martina Fischer, paintings
http://www.martinafischer.net/


 

 



 

ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SPRING2013

Roses, diamonds, offspring, intimate details of Lady Drummond Hay, Dr. Eckener's affair and airship captain Bauer's secret fiancee - it is springtime and love is in the air..... [READ MORE]

 
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ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
WINTER2012

With interesting reports about the captain of the Russian icebreaker Malyguin, zeppelin mail addressed to Mexico, zeppelin sheds at Lemberg, affranchissement perçu notes from Egypt, zeppelin mail in California and other fascinating stories. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
FALL2012

A dinner at Los Angeles, the Gordon Bennett Race, unrecorded zeppelin mail from Danzig and Venezuela, the German Emperor, the Grand Duke and media tycoon William Randolph Hearst - we celebrate 100 years of Flugpost am Rhein und Main. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SUMMER2012

It is summer time: The first mail drop over Heligoland, a trip to the Orient, zeppelin crew member Thasler on vacation and 100 years ago, the first post office opened onboard an airship. This was on July 17, 1912. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SPRING2012

What have hot dogs, fast immigration into the US without a pasport, blind people, a crew member not onboard, ghosts and the Titanic in common? Hard to believe, 75 years ago, airship LZ-129 HINDENBURG crashed at Lakehurst, NJ. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
WINTER2011

An issue with the earliest picture postcard taken onboard a zeppelin, a census on Port Gdansk zeppelin mail, Japanese zeppelin NT mail, catapult mail and GRAF ZEPPELIN over Brenner's Hotel at Baden-Baden, just to mention the variety of articles. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
FALL2011

Wanted: Zeppelin mail from Ethiopia and LZ-129 HINDENBURG crash mail! This issue also reports about zeppelin stamps from Finland and Paraguay and about zeppelin mail from Japan, the Bahamas, Guatemala and from Liechtenstein. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SUMMER2011

From Asterix to Zeppelin, from Mary to Dorothy, from Greece to Iceland, from Orly to Le Bourget, from Josef to Magda and from Columbia back to Austria: Enjoy the Summer 2011 issue! [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SPRING2011

The jubilee issue, it is the 100th issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL. And 100 is the topic of this issue with Count Zeppelin's 100th birthday, LZ-100, flight number 100, 100 dropped pieces, registration number 100, R100 and 100 years Bordstempel. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
WINTER2010

Why the zeppelin was making a detour because of Spelterini, why LZ-127 GRAF ZEPPELIN flew over Canada and why the NT BODENSEE is back from Japan. This issue links also zeppelins with the Aegean Islands and the Falkland Islands. And we have found a new zeppelin cachet. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
FALL2010

Arbed, Alix, Alrun and Aladin, but also Canada, Köhler, catapult and Ciampino: just to name a few key words of the Fall2010 issue which contains also paintings and lyrics. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
SUMMER2010

In addition to Maybach cars, Euro and US$ exchange rates and helicopters in the Antarctic, the Summer2010 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL deals also with World War I zeppelin mail and zeppelin mail from Paraguay, the Bahamas and Canada. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
Spring2010

From 1908 till 1992: The Spring2010 issue of the Zeppelin Post Journal contains a broad range of articles for the zeppelin mail collector. Articles about zeppelin mail from Romania, Hong Kong and from the cruiser Karlsruhe in South America make this again an international issue. [READ MORE]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
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]

 
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]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
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]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
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]

 
ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
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]