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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1526

Worldwide Flight and Zeppelin postal history assembly comprising over 35 covers, including Italy with 1926 Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Trans-Polar flight with corresponding vignette, 1933 Balbo's Transatlantic Flight "Trittico" on flown cover to Switzerland, Australia 1931 first official airmail Melbourne-London, early German Zeppelin items, DO-X flight, rare 1931 "Polarfahrt" on postcard with Liechtenstein franking sent to Cuba with arrival on front, 1931 "Polarfahrt" with USSR franking, catapult flight, 1929 Zeppelin "Weltrundfahrt", etc., additionally enriched with few interesting photographs: one of the first displaying a Wright plane in flight in Europe signed by the agent of the Wright brothers in Germany, Zeppelin flying over New York, Lakehurst short after the "Hindenburg" disaster, Zeppelin picture postcards and modern commemorative items, as well as 1938 Greenland cover and Schlesvig set used on registered cover on the day of the plebiscite with marking of the International Commission, generally very fine, viewing essential.

Sold for
$3,250