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 Lot 487 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Germany, 1930 (18-31 May), South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Friedrichshafen, dual-cacheted cover franked with three 4m South America Flight Zeppelins tied by Friedrichshafen c.d.s.'s 18 May, backstamped Friedrichshafen; two stamps are saddled along top edge of cover, small perf faults and slight abrasion upper left, otherwise Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers |
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 Lot 587 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Graf Zeppelin Collateral: Frame Part. Piece of the LZ-127 Zeppelin frame, approximately 10½" by 11½", professionally mounted on a wooden base with metal plaque "Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127", base has some wear, museum quality, most of the aluminum frame was reused in Germany's war effort, Fine to Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material |
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 Lot 635 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643U.S.S. Los Angeles Collateral: Hull Fabric. Piece of fabric, about 4" x 3" bearing a small blue handstamp "U.S.S. Los Angeles", Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material |
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 Lot 446 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Andorra (French), 1933 (2-5 Sep), 6th South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Recife. Registered cover to Brazil franked with 12fr Lavieille c.d.s.'s 18 Aug, Friedrichshafen departure c.d.s. 2 Sep, backstamped La Tour de Carol, Recife and Curitiba Brazil; light vertical file fold not affecting stamps, Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers |
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 Lot 545 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643United States, 1936, Goodyear Airship Volunteer Flight Cover. 3¢ stamped envelope with 6¢ Winged Globe (C19) affixed, bearing the manuscript endorsement, entirely in the pilot's hand, "This letter was carried in the Goodyear Airship Volunteer on the flight from Sacramento to Los Angeles, Calif. Date March 26 & 27, 1936. [signed] A.T. Sewell, Pilot Captain". After landing in Los Angeles, Sewell apparently mailed the cover to its apparent maker, one Julius B. Webber of Sacramento; it is canceled by a March 28 Los Angeles machine cancel, with additional Air Mail duplex handstamp of the L.A. Arcade Annex P.O. and magenta winged "Via U.S. Air Mail" handstamp plus a "First Flight" handstamp; the cover also bears a red & blue label featuring an airship upon which Webber has written "Goodyear"; Webber has also written "First and Only Letter" above Sewell's endorsement and probably applied the "First Flight" handstamp., Very Fine, a unique piece of airship postal history. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers |
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 Lot 625 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Italian Airship Norge: Photo. Black & white photo, 8" x 10", showing the airship over a barren polar landscape, signed on reverse by American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth beneath the handwritten notation, "The 'Norge' leaving King's Bay, Spitzbergen, at 8.55 a.m. May 11th 1926, for her long 2000 mile voyage across the unknown Polar Sea to Alaska", the note is quite possibly also in Ellsworth's hand; the photo has a vertical crease and a small chip in the center, otherwise Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material |
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 Lot 405 - a famous voyage and airmail flights airmail postal history - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Cuba, Crash Cover, 1928 (Aug 15), letter recovered from "General Machado" which crashed into Gulf of Mexico. Pilot Fatt, carrying mail from Havana to Key West on Aug 15, 1928, couldn't find Key West, and crashed into Gulf of Mexico. He was rescued by crew of the SS Legionnaire. Recovered mail was taken to St. Petersburg, where 3-line black cachet was applied. Back flap closed with three official USPOD seals; very heavily damaged and waterlogged, Very Fine for this. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights airmail postal history |
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 Lot 529 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Russia, 1933 (30 Sep-3 Oct), 8th South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Recife. Registered cover franked 1.60rm tied by large Leningrad airmail c.d.s.'s, with Berlin Connecting Flight and Zeppelin cachets, Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers |
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 Lot 588 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Graf Zeppelin Collateral: Goldbeater's Skin, 1928-37. Used by Germans for the internal gas bags of the Zeppelins. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material |
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 Lot 498 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643Germany, 1933 (14-25 Oct), Chicago Flight, Friedrichshafen-Chicago. Cover franked with 1m & 2m Chicago Flight Zeppelins (C43-44) tied by Berlin c.d.s.'s, Berlin Connecting Flight cachet, backstamped Chicago 26 Oct; few edge tears at top, Fine to Very Fine. Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers |
