Graf Zeppelin Southwest Germany Flight post card
Object Details
- Description
- Crew member Albert Lehmann, a steward on the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, prepared this card and wrote the message, "Flying to Frankfurt, have over 70 people on board, greetings from the air Albert." The card is addressed to Offenburg, the town in Germany in which Albert Lehmann was born, perhaps addressed to his father or a relative.
- Because the card was dropped from the Graf Zeppelin over Baden-Baden unfranked, there is a 15 pfennig postage "Due" marking in blue crayon plus a boxed red cachet "Nachgebühr," or "Postage Due," on top of the card. The zeppelin flew eastward over southwest Germany toward Basel, Switzerland, and then north toward Frankfurt am Main before returning to Friedrichshafen via Stuttgart.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1928
- Object number
- 0.222097.3.3.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 21.IIba
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.3.3.1
