Graf Zeppelin Orient Flight cover
Object Details
- Description
- Cover flown and posted onboard the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin on the Orient flight and dropped over Er Ramle (in Palestine, between Tel Aviv/Jaffa and Jerusalem). Only a few pieces are known with the Er Ramle arrival postmark.
- This was the first flight of the Graf Zeppelin with an onboard post office to service passengers and crew in addition to handling mail prepared by collectors in advance.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1929
- Object number
- 0.222097.2.26.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 23.IBa
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.2.26.1
