Graf Zeppelin South America Flight post card
Object Details
- Description
- This card was posted from New York for return flight to Germany on the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin's Pan American flight and dropped at Seville, Spain. The 65-cent U.S. zeppelin stamp paid the correct postage for this leg of the flight. The card markings show it was dispatched from the Varick Station in New York City on May 31, 1930, and received at Seville on June 7, 1930. The return to U.S. by surface is indicated by the green New York receiving stamp of June 23, 1930 (under the Seville receiving stamp). The purple U.S. map cachet and the red German flight cachet were routinely applied to this mail. Because Friedrichshafen was the most common destination for processing the flown mail to Europe, the Seville leg is scarcer. On the reverse is a label commemorating the 1930 Boston Tercentenary.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1930
- Object number
- 0.222097.12.25.3
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 64.F
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.12.25.3
