Graf Zeppelin World Flight cover
Object Details
- Description
- Cover dispatched from Japan and carried by the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin from Tokyo to Lakehurst on its 1929 world flight. The letter bears the special cachet "First Round-The-World Flight by Graf Zeppelin / Tokio. O.P.O 1929" in red. Postage has been affixed with Japanese stamps on both sides of the cover in the amount of Y3.10, the correct letter-rate from Tokyo to Lakehurst. The stamps are tied with a Tokyo postmark dated August 21, 1929. The reverse side of the cover also bears a special "Graf Zeppelin Round the World Flight" receiver postmark from Lakehurst, New Jersey, dated August 29, 1929.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1929
- Object number
- 0.222097.5.7.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 31.B
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.5.7.1
