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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1289

(x) India
Airmails
1936 Zeppelin Mail Addressed to India
1936 (11 May) envelope from Lakehurst addressed to Bombay, marked "Via Hindenburg, via air to London, via air to India", franked at 65c. (stamps with some stained perfs) and cancelled by New York machine d.s., showing special 1st Hindenburg Flight cachet in violet overstruck by boxed "cancelled/bombay/19 may 36" h.s. A rare incoming Zeppelin flight cover to India. Photo

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£1200