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Auction: 4012 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring the E.W. Ingram Collection of E. Africa
Lot: 1006

Crash Covers 1937 'Hindenburg': 1937 (6 May) envelope addressed to Germany with specially printed "mail via airship hindenburg" bearing two 20c. air mail adhesives tied by New York c.d.s.; with cachet "Intended for first eastbound trip of/Airship 'Hindenburg' in 1937./Could not be forwarded on account/of accident to Airship, May 6, 1937." in mauve, also unframed "return to sender/morgan annex, n.y.p.o." in purple and New York G.P.O. duplex. Photo Estimate £ 100-140

Sold for
£100