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Graf Zeppelin First American Flight cover
Object Details
- Description
- Cover flown by the Graf Zeppelin on the America Flight's return leg, Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, on October 29, 1928. A special "First Flight Airmail" cachet in violet is affixed as well as three U.S. stamps (Scott 571, C10, C11), totaling $1.15 and tied by a Chicago postmark dated October 23rd, 1928. Normal letter postage was $1.05 from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, the additional ten cents covering the rate from Chicago to Lakehurst.
- The cover also bears the signatures of Hugo Eckener, airship commander and successor to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; Ernst Lehmann, first mate and later commander of the Hindenburg; and D. Langmann, a postmaster. The cover is backstamped with a Friedrichshafen postmark dated November 1, 1928.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1928
- Object number
- 0.222097.2.3.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 22B
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.2.3.1
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