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Lot 448 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 448 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Austria, Hindenburg, 1936 (1 Aug), Olympic Flight. Cover franked with 36g tied by Gallspach c.d.s.'s 29 Jul, magenta flight cachet, backstamped Berlin 1 Aug, Very Fine.
Michel 32 I; €850 ($1,140). Sieger 427.
Estimate $400 - 600.

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Lot 557 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight postcards -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 557 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight postcards - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

United States, 1920's-30's, airship picture postcards. 12 different cards (5 real photos), featuring the Shenandoah, Akron, Macon or Los Angeles.plus 12 vintage photos of same; two of the Akron cards are signed, one by C.E. Rosendahl, the other by Mrs. W.A Moffett; also includes a postal cards signed by Akron / Macon designer, Dr. Karl Arnstein and mailed to FDR (from the Roosevelt collection).
Estimate $500 - 750.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight postcards
Lot 639 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 639 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

U.S.S. Shenandoah: Crash Survivor's Autograph. Picture postcard of the crash site signed on the address side by John F. McCarthy, chief rigger and one of 29 survivors of the crash (14 crewmen died, including commanding officer, Cmdr. Zachary Lansdowne); also included are two pieces of the airship's hull fabric, one about 1" square, the other about 3½" x 2½", the latter handstamped "U.S.S. Shenandoah, crashed Sep. 3, 1925 Alva, O." The card was signed on Sept. 5, 1975, the 50th anniversary of the crash., Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

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Lot 417 - a famous voyage and airmail flights airmail postal history -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 417 - a famous voyage and airmail flights airmail postal history - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Newfoundland, Airmail, 1930, 50¢ on 36¢ Columbia Flight on rare overpaid domestic internal postage rate letter, position 1 in the form of four, exceptionally well centered and tied by neat St. John's c.d.s., SP 27, 1930 on a small cover addressed to the Palace Hotel in Montreal; without backstamp indicating handling as an ordinary letter; stamp lifted and hinged in place, Very Fine, one of two known examples from St. Johns, East, signed A Diena, A. Bolaffi and G. Bolaffi with his 1966 certificate, 2014 Sismondo Certificate.
Scott C5; $14,000 ++.
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000

The stamp was printed on the occasion of the flight of the "Columbia" from Harbour Grace to the Scilly Isles, flown by Captain J. Erroll Boyd, former RCAF pilot and Lt. Harry Connor of the US Navy. At the insistence of the Postmaster, a bag of mail was carried on the flight. For the mail's franking, 300 examples of this stamp were printed. They were placed on sale at St. John's at 9 AM on September 25th. Forty-eight examples were reserved for mail to be posted at Harbour Grace. Eight examples were given to the captain and navigator (two blocks of four). The remaining 244 stamps were offered to the public with the proviso that only one example could be purchased by each person. It was written that, within fifteen minutes all 244 stamps were sold. It is now known that 100 examples were used to frank mail to Europe carried on this flight. It is assumed that 192 stamps were kept by purchasers in unused condition.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

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Lot 534 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 534 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

United States, 1930 (Apr 10), U.S.S. Akron cover, postmarked Akron, O., Apr 10, 1930, and signed by P.W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Dr. H. Eckener, and Karl Arnstein, designer of both the Akron and the Macon; the reverse bears the handstamped cachet marking the occasion of Dr. Eckener's visit to the Goodyear Airdock to inspect the Akron on Oct 7., Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Lot 626 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 626 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Soviet Airship V6 Osoaviakhim: Photo. Acme Agency news photo, 8" x 10", of the ill-fated Nobile-designed airship in flight on its maiden flight in 1934.
Estimate $200 - 300

The photo was used to illustrate February 1938 articles about the ship's destruction in a crash on her way to rescue stranded members of a Soviet Arctic Expedition in. Thirteen crewmen were killed. All members of the Expedition were eventually saved
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

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Lot 504 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 504 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Germany, Hindenburg, 1936 (1-3 Oct), 9th North America Flight, Return Lakehurst-Frankfurt. Cover franked 1.50m + U.S. 6¢ tied by onboard cancels 2 Oct; carried and signed by H.R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram on the first leg of his record-setting race around the world by commercial airliner, Very Fine, a unique piece of passenger aviation history.
Michel 43 c; €125 ++ ($170). Sieger 425.
Estimate $300 - 400

Ekins' race was against two other reporters, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times. His total time from Lakehurst to Lakehurst, via Frankfurt, Athens, Baghdad, Bangkok, Batavia, Guam, Hawaii, Manila, San Francisco and Los Angeles, was 18 days, 14 hours and 56 minutes, beating his competitors by six days and 10,000 miles.

The cover was serviced by and addressed to pioneer Event & FDC maker, Harry Truby. It includes Truby's original letter to Ekins
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Lot 594 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 594 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Graf Zeppelin Collateral: Labels. Pictorial labels produced by the Commercial Philatelic Bulletin of Rome on the occasion of the Graf Zeppelin's 1933 Rome Flight and featuring the Graf over various Italian landmarks, five miniature sheets of 16 different designs printed se-tenant, each in a different color: black, red, blue, brown & green; also includes a rather worn example of an original wrapper for the sheet and an additional sheet of the blue without selvage, Very Fine.
Estimate $300 - 400.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material
Lot 450 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 450 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Brazil, 1930 (28-31 May), South America Flight, Recife-Lakehurst, 5c U.S. Airmail stamped envelope with 10,000rs "USA" Zeppelin tied by Recife Zeppelin cancel 28 May, backstamped Lakehurst, signed by 29 members of the Zeppelin's crew (mostly engineering Department) including Captains Albert Sammt & Max Pruss, Very Fine.
Michel 66 Be. Sieger 59. E.
Estimate $750 - 1,000

We have identified 20 of the 21, including Josef Schreibmüller, who would later lose his life in the Hindenburg disaster
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin flight covers
Lot 576 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material -  Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Lot 576 - a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

Graf Zeppelin Collateral: Badges/Pins. Group of six, the best being a sterling silver German Army Zeppelin badge featuring an airship surrounded by a green enameled wreath with the hallmark of CE Junker, Berlin; also includes a brass Graf Zeppelin Landing Crew Lakehurst pin, two small enameled pins for the Zeppelin's 1929 round-the-world flight, one for Zeppelin Day at the 1933 World's Fair, and a small jewelry-type souvenir pin., Very Fine.
Estimate $500 - 750.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fire & Ice: Zeppelins, Aerophilately and the Titanic #643

a famous voyage and airmail flights zeppelin collateral material