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1907, balloon flight London-Tösse (Sweden), organised by the newspaper Daily Graphic with balloon "Mammoth", unstamped special card with Swedish franking mark 1 Öre with cancellation "MELLERÜD 16.1.21907" to Crewe, England with tax stamp "2 D" and arrival postmark. The card with stronger traces of age, but otherwise in good overall condition
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1870, "Vauban", complete pre-printed folded cover Napoleon III. 20 centimes with star cancellation "36" and adjacent DKr. "PARIS ST DU PRINCE-EUGENE 26.OCT.70" and red handstamp "PD" to via Geneva to Zurich with arrival postmark. The folded cover with somewhat stronger traces of age, otherwise in good overall condition
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1908, International Balloon Races Berlin 1908, three different picture postcards of the event with various balloon illustrations, all three cards used with 5 Pfennig Germania and special cancellation "INTERNATIONALE BALLONWETTFAHRTEN BERLIN SCHMARGENDORF", in good condition
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1870, "Général Ulrich", complete folded cover with contents (unopened!) with two single stamps Ceres 20 centimes with star cancellation and adjacent DKr. "PARIS 17.NOV.70" and black handstamp "PD" to Mainz in well overall condition
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1870, "Ville d'Orléans" (Courier de Mandal-Post), complete preprinted folded cover with DKr. "PARIS Pl. De La BOURSE 24.NOV.70" (postage paid) to Lille with arrival postmark of 6 Dec, for the so-called "Mandal-Post" in quite well overall condition. Note: Part of the mail was thrown into the sea as ballast to avoid an emergency landing. This mail was salvaged by fishermen and forwarded to the French consulate in Mandal. Here, too, the mail was promptly forwarded wide to the addressees without labelling.
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1912, balloon flight Aarhus - Stendal with balloon "Leipzig", special air-mail card "Aarhus i. Flugleperspektiv" with red overprint cancellation "AARHUS DEN 22.SEPTEMBER 1912 Befordret med BALLONPOST" and German Reich Germania 10 Pfennig with cancellation "BERLIN W9 23.9.12" to Denmark, slightly traces of transport in margin and patina
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1870, "Poste de Paris", complete folded cover with Ceres 20 centimes with star cancellation "1" and adjacent DKr. "PARIS 17.JANV.70" via "CAEN 26.JANV.71" to Bordeaux. The stamp (postage stamp) with corner error due to edge gluing, otherwise in well overall condition
Note: The balloon "Poste de Paris" landed on the same day in Merseloo, Netherlands, only 7 km from the Prussian front
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1870, "Ville d'Orléans" (Courier de Tunet-Post), complete preprinted folding cover with Ceres 20 centimes with red DKr. "PARIS 24.NOV.70" and reverse arrival datestamp "ST SYMPHORIEN D'OZON 12.DEC.70" in well overall condition, signed Calves. Note: After the then world record flight of the balloon "Vville d'Orléans" from Paris to Norway, the entire undamaged mail was forwarded wide to the addressees without further labelling.
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1871, "Général Cambronne", preprinted folded cover with Ceres 20 centimes with star cancellation and adjacent DKr. "PARIS 27.JANV.71" via Agen to Beaumont de Lomagne with arrival postmark. Inside the folded cover is not quite complete, otherwise in well overall condition
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1870, "Ville d'Orléans" (Courier de Tunet-Post), complete preprinted folded cover "Gazette des absents No.9 "with Ceres 20 centimes with DKr. "PARIS R.ST. HONORE 20.NOV.70" and reverse arrival postmark "NANTES A QUIMPER 10.DEC.70", fold marks, otherwise in well overall condition, signed Calves, quite scarce in this form
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