Interrupted Graf Zeppelin America Flight cover
Object Details
- Description
- Having departed Friedrichshafen on May 17, 1929, for its 1929 America flight, the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin made an emergency landing at Cuers, France. The engines replaced, the zeppelin flew back to Friedrichshafen on May 23, 1929. Mail from the interrupted flight, none of it official, received a special cachet to explain the delay. It was later carried by the Graf Zeppelin when it flew to Lakehurst in August that year. This item, however, was not part of that mail.
- Though no official mail was carried from Cuers back to Friedrichshafen, the flight carried approximately sixty pieces of private mail. Mail received the "SCHIFFSLEITUNG" cachet, an internal cachet used by the commander of the LZ 127, not a postal cachet. After landing at Friedrichshafen, the covers were given to the Friedrichshafen post office, where on the back side they received the Friedrichshafen postmark of May 24, 1929, the day of the zeppelin's return to Friedrichshafen.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1929
- Object number
- 0.222097.3.11.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 026.I
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.3.11.1
