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Auction: 364 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part I
Lot: 118

[20th Century Hydrogen-filled Rigid Airships]: An Assortment of Dirigible and related Postcards. "Graf Zeppelin" (7) - flying over Friedrichshafen and the Bodensee, over Munich, over or on a field (3), buildings, South America flight; the LZ 4 moored in Stuttgart August 5 1908 minutes before its destruction by storm and fire; the "Hindenburg" - LZ 129 - new at its hangar, flying over its hangar (postally used on flight 13 May 12-14 Lakehurst to Frankfurt, with stamps and Frankfurt and flight p/ms, "We flew over N.Y. so low that you could see the time on the times square clock. Auntie Lee"), photo postcards of it at Lakehurst field (2) and above Lakehurst; photo postcard of Capt. König and Ferdinand Graf v. Zeppelin (with stamp p/m'd 1938), Ferdinand Graf v. Zeppelin in uniform (color postcard with stamp and Centennial p/m 1938; tear taped repaired on back); color postcard of the German dirigible "Hansa" arriving at Potsdam harbor; and a color postcard of a US navy dirigible flying over midtown NY. Not postally used except where indicated. A few with light pencil notation on backs. [17]

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