[Event] 1909, International Airship Exhibition, Frankfurt, small group comprising four picture postcards issued for the exhibition and used during the event (Jul-Oct); two Admission Tickets to the Event, one a Child's ticket; and a reproduction of an original photo of Airships in the air over the city (4½" x 3½").
Estimate $150 - 200.
Sale 707 The Knapp Collection of Airmail Flights
By: Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Sale 707 The Knapp Collection of Airmail Flights
The Thomas P. Knapp Collection of Aerophilately, including important offerings from many name collections (some lots still on exhibition pages) and loaded with original news articles, period photographs and research notes. A premier classic airmail postal history collection started in the 1930's by the late Mr. Knapp. Highlights include:
- U.S. Pioneer Airmail Flights
- East and West Transcontinental
- Lindbergh and Earhart
- Zeppelin Flights
- Crash Covers
- Balloons including Ballon Monté
- Great Britain, Canada and Newfoundland Flights
- Other Worldwide including West Indies, South Atlantic, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia
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Lot #201 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
Lot #202 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Guests] 1929 (Aug 15-Sep 4) Round-the-World Flight, New York reception program, 6" x 9" four-page program & menu for an Aug 30 reception dinner in honor of Dr. Eckener and the Crew of the Graf Zeppelin; given by the New York Mayor's Committee on Reception to Distinguished Guests; beautiful embossed cover with gold braid binding.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #203 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Guests] 1930, Europe-Pan-America Round Flight, Lakehurst guest pass, business card-size pass with "Graf Zeppelin World Cruise/ Mrs. Hambrock & party (manuscript)/ Guest/ U.S. Naval Air Station/ Lakehurst, N.J."; the back of the card, instructing Marine Sentries to allow the bearer to pass "all police lines"; the dotted line for the appropriate signature is not signed; slight wear.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #204 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] Midday Snack Menu and Drink List, 6" x 9" bi-fold, undated but the latest wine is 1928, Very Fine and rare.
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #205 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1928 (Oct 29-Nov 1), America Flight, Return, Daily Menu, bearing the red onboard datestamp of Oct 31, the menu is mimeographed on a 6" x 12" letterhead of New York's Louis Sherry Restaurant, who catered the meals for the return voyage.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #206 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1928 (Oct 11-15), America Flight, Drinks Menu, bearing the red onboard datestamp of Oct 15, the list is mimeographed on heavy card and signed by 12 passengers (and crew members?) including the "Flying Feminist", Lady Grace Drummond-Hay; European Director of Herst Publications, Karl von Wiegand; Frederick J. Gilfillan, a wealthy American living in Switzerland; Col. Emilio Herrera of the Royal Spanish Navigation Dept...
Lot #207 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1928 (Oct 11-15), America Flight, Lunch Menu, bearing the red onboard datestamp of 15 Oct, the menu is mimeographed on heavy card; wealthy American passenger, Frederick J. Gilfillan, apparently used this particular menu to send a message home (under separate cover, not present), writing in pencil around three edges, hinting at friendships made under trying conditions during the flight.
Estimate $200 - 300...
Lot #208 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1929 (May 16-17), America Flight, Menu, 6" x 9" Mittagessen (mid-day snack) Menu with Drink List on the back, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #209 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1929 (Aug 1-5), America Flight, Menu, 6" x 9" Mittagessen (mid-day snack) Menu with Drink List on the back, bearing the red onboard datestamp of Aug 2, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #210 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1929 (Aug 15-Sep 4), Round-the-World Flight, Lakehurst - Friedrichshafen, Menu, 6" x 9" bi-fold Menu for Third Day Supper catered by the Louis Sherry Restaurant, lovely image of the Airship over the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on the cover and bearing the red onboard datestamp of Sep 3; trivial light soiling, Fine-Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #211 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1932 (Jul 30-Aug 1), Danzig Flight, Dinner Menu, approximately 6" x 9", printed form with the Airship in flight at top and Kurgarten-Hotel imprint at bottom; name of flight and menu items are mimeographed, Very Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #212 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Menu] 1934 (Dec 10), Twelfth South America Flight, Menu, half page in a nicely illustrated tri-fold DZR promotional folder; the three pages are separated and rejoined with tape that has turned brown; Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #213 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Photos] Graf Zeppelin, etc., about 100 photos of various sizes and origins, along with a few cigarette Zeppelin Collectors cards and some modern Zeppelin event covers.
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #214 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Photos] 1900-12, early Zeppelins, about 90 photographs and 25 picture postcards featuring Airships L.Z. 1-9, L.Z. 10 & L.Z. 12; most of it related to L.Z. 1-5; includes the airmail card with special stamp for the Apr 1913 Rhine River flights of the L.Z. 9, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch). A most interesting lot, scanned in its entirety.
Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Lot #215 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Photos] 1908-15, other early German airships, 13 postcards and a couple of photos featuring four non-Zeppelin airships builders: Gross-Basenbach (1910 postcard), Schütte-Lanz (1915 postcard), Siemens-Schuker (postcard-size reproduction of a 1911 photo), and Parseval (10 different postcards - two French & one British, plus a card dropped by a Parseval in Oct 1910 in conjunction with Munich's Oktoberfest and sponsored by the Munich...
Lot #216 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Photos] 1928 (Oct 11-15), America Flight, Official Photo, 6½" x 4½" photo of passenger and German photographer and newsreel cameraman, Robert Hartmann, peering out of one of the Zeppelin's engine nacells; the photo bears the red onboard datestamp of Oct 14; it is personalized and signed on the back by Hartmann, to fellow passenger, Dr. Robert Reiner (see lot 220), "Mr. Dr. Reiner, as a souvenir of our Atlantic flight on the...
Lot #217 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Photos] 1928 (Oct 11-15), America Flight, official souvenir photographs, a 9" x 7" photo of the Zeppelin's passenger dining room, plus two photos, postcards showing 1.) the Graf Zeppelin preparing for takeoff and 2.) the interior framework above the passenger gondola; all bear the red onboard datestamp of Oct 14 or 15, Very Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #218 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] Zeppelin Transport Company publicity manager, Wolfgang Lambrecht, signed Christmas card in German with handwritten English translation; card pictures the Graf Zeppelin over Friedrichshafen.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #219 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] 1910-38, advertising cards, over one hundred 2¼"x1 5/8" cards distributed by Club Liga, all appear different, showing Zeppelins and related, Very Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #220 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] 1928 (Oct 11-15), America Flight, congratulatory telegrams, four telegrams sent to Dr. Robert Reiner, a N.J. educator, who was the first ticketed passenger to debark the Airship upon her landing at Lakehurst; they are from various sources and are dated Oct 9, 11 & 13 (2); three in German, the fourth, in English, invites Reiner to speak at a banquet given for the Commander & Officers of the Graf Zeppelin by the Board...
Lot #221 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] 1930, Europe-Pan-America Round Flight, 65¢-$2.60 Zeppelins, Post Office Announcement, issued April 3, 1930, detailing the issue of the stamps, as well as the services to be provided for sending mail on the various legs; a very rare announcement.
Estimate $400 - 600.
Lot #222 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] 1933, promotional materials, a small drop leaflet advertising Zeppelin Transatlantic Service to South America (ex Sieger) and a Lufthansa promotional form letter dated Apr 28, 1933, noting the flight schedule to South America for the remainder of the year.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #223 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Publicity] c. 1936, DZR advertising flyer, two-sided, two-color flyer "Come to the Airship" advertising sightseeing plans; the back, "How do you get to the Airship?", suggests coming by Trolley, Train, Bus or Auto; small tape-sealer tear at bottom, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #224 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Schedules] 1934-37, Graf Zeppelin/Hindenburg, tri-fold schedule dated February 1936, and quad-fold schedule dated February 1937, detailing the scheduled South America flights of both Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, as well as the Condor Syndicate airplane connections in South America; also includes a small single sheet 1934 Schedule of the Zeppelin's South America flight schedule from June through November of that year; the 1936...
Lot #225 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Hindenburg Flights
1936, Hindenburg North & South America Flights (Michel 9/60), about 65 covers flown between April & October of 1936; mostly Germany (a few onboard postings), U.S. and Brazil but also Danzig (1st North America Flight), Paraguay (12th South America Flight) and Sweden (8th North America Flight), plus a German card flown Round Trip on the 1st North America flight; includes two mounted on colorful, professionally handmade album...
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