Graf Zeppelin Germany Flight postcard
Object Details
- Description
- Picture postcard carried by the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin on its November 3 flight to Böblingen. The card is franked with a 50 Reichspfennig airmail stamp tied by an October 20, 1929, onboard postmark. This was a piece of mail intended for a flight that was cancelled on short notice and was then put aboard the later Böblingen flight. A rectangular confirmation cachet "Mit Luftschiff 'Graf Zeppelin' befördert" ("Carried on the airship Graf Zeppelin") was also applied. The card also received a Böblingen Flughafen (Böblingen airport) postmark dated November 3, 1929.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1929
- Object number
- 0.222097.7.35.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Germany (German empire)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Sieger Catalog 48Bb
- Topic
- John P. V. Heinmuller Collection of Zeppelin Covers
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.222097.7.35.1
