Graf Zeppelin Balkan Flight cover
Object Details
- Description
- Cover carried by the airship Graf Zeppelin on its October 15-17 Balkan flight in 1929. A RM1 German airmail stamp has been tied by an onboard postmark dated October 16, 1929. The front also bears a red confirmation postmark "Mit Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin befördert" ("Carried by airship Graf Zeppelin") as well as a blue "Mit Luftpost Par Avion" etiquette. The cover was dropped over Bucharest, Romania, where it received a red arrival postmark "BUCHARESTI 16OCT1929 PAR AVION."
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1929
- Object number
- 0.222097.6.21.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 42.B
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.6.21.1
