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Sachsen 1913 Hamburg/Hamburg Roundtrip
Object Details
- Description
- Picture postcard of Kiel harbor carried on the airship Sachsen (LZ17) on her Hamburg to Hamburg roundtrip on August 11, 1913. The card bears a circular violet on-board postmark, "An Bord des Zeppelin-Luftschiffes Sachsen / 11.Aug.1913" ("Onboard the zeppelin airship Sachsen") and a 5 pfennig Germania stamp tied by an oval onboard postmark "Luftpost / Zeppelin-Schiff Sachsen 12.8.13" ("Airmail / zeppelin ship Sachsen") in black. The card sends greetings--"Today's flight Hamburg - Travemünde - Ostsee (Baltic sea)"--to Anton Wittemann, Helmsman, in care of the zeppelin works in Friedrichshafen. Wittemann was later to be the navigator on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ127).
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1913
- Object number
- 0.222097.1.42.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 8a
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.1.42.1
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