Austria, 1929 (Aug 15-19), Round-the-World Flight, Friedrichshafen - Tokyo (Michel 29), cover franked with 3.50s postage tied by Aug 10 c.d.s., with Aug 15 Friedrichshafen c.d.s., red flight cachet and Aug 19 Tokyo receiver on front; mounted on a colorful, professionally made album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
Sieger 30; €200 ($210).
Michel €250 ($270).
Estimate $100 - 150.
Sale 707 The Knapp Collection of Airmail Flights
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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 #151 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Lot #152 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Austria, 1931 (Jul 12-14), Austria Flight (Michel 198/199Ab), five flown cards: Friedrichshafen - Vienna (two, one originating in Saar), Vienna-Aspern - Friedrichshafen, and Vienna-Aspern drop to Graz (2); also includes an 8" x 10" press photo of the Zeppelin landing in Vienna with a crowd of 100,000 spectators in attendance.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #153 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Brazil, 1930 (Oct 24-Jun 6), South America Flight (Michel 64/66), nine covers or cards including Recife - Bahia drop (card with normal franking) and Rio de Janeiro - Seville franked with a 20,000r Zeppelin.
Michel €1,705 ($1,820).
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #154 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Brazil, 1931 (Sep 18-28), Second South America Flight, round trip & return (Michel 222 Ia, 2220Aa), cover and card of each, the round trip with both German & Brazilian franking, Very Fine.
Sieger 129D, 130A, B; €450 ($480).
Michel €270 ($290).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #155 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Brazil, 1933 (Oct 18-Nov 2), Chicago Flight (Michel 348/355), eight covers from Recife to: Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Akron (card & cover), Chicago (2), Seville and Friedrichshafen; the seven covers are addressed to the Zeppelin Company's U.S. representative, F.W. von Meister; the card is addressed by the Airship's radio operator, Willy Speck, to himself in Akron.
Sieger 239.
Michel €600+ ($640).
Estimate $200 - 300...
Lot #156 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
British Offices in Morocco, 1933 (Jun 3-6), Second South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 305 b), registered cover franked with 1s3d postage tied by Tangier ovals, May 24, with green flight cachet and red Berlin connecting flight cachet and Paris & Pernambuco backstamps, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger 214B; €350+ ($370).
Michel €400+ ($430).
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #157 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
British Offices in Morocco, 1933 (Jun 3-6), Second South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 305 b), registered cover marked as "Printed Matter" to Buenos Aires, franked with 3p on 2s6d postage tied by Larache ovals, May 25, with green flight cachet, Friedrichshafen transit c.d.s. and French Tangier and Buenos Aires backstamps, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger 214; €500 ($530).
Michel €400+ ($430).
Estimate $200...
Lot #158 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Canada, 1928 (Oct 29-Nov 1), America Flight, Lakehurst - Friedrichshafen (Michel 8 A f), registered legal-size cover franked with 28¢ postage and sent from Winnipeg to St. Paul, Minn., on Oct 22; in St. Paul $1 U.S. postage was added (20x 5¢ Beacon C11, front & back - should have been $1.05) and canceled Oct 23; the cover was received at New York the next day and forwarded to Lakehurst where it received the Return Flight cachet on...
Lot #159 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Gibraltar, 1933 (Sep 16-19), Seventh South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 337 b), registered cover franked with 1s2d postage tied by Gibraltar ovals, Jun 1, with blue flight cachet and red Berlin connecting flight cachet, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine, for some reason Sieger omits the 7th South America Flight from the Gibraltar listings.
Sieger 232B.
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Lot #160 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Great Britain, 1933 (Aug 5-15), Fourth South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 323 b), unsealed cover carried by the Great Western Railway Air Mail Service from Plymouth to Birmingham, franked with a 3d G.W.R. Airmail stamp tied by special Plymouth datestamp, Aug 2; then franked with 4d & 6d KGV stamps (10s printed matter rate) tied by Birmingham c.d.s.s, Aug 3; red Berlin connecting flight cachet and Zeppelin...
Lot #161 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Great Britain, 1933 (Oct 14-17), Chicago Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 347 b), unsealed cover to Bahia franked with 10d postage tied by Norwich machine cancel, Sep 28, with red flight cachet and Berlin connecting flight cachets, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
Sieger 238E; €650 ($690).
Michel €600 ($640).
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #162 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Great Britain, 1933 (Oct 14-17), Chicago Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 347 b), registered cover to Rio de Janeiro franked with 1s1d postage tied by Liverpool c.d.s.s, Sep 27, with red flight cachet and Berlin Central Airfield cachets on the front and Berlin connecting flight cachet on the back, Very Fine.
Sieger 238E; €650 ($690).
Michel €600 ($640).
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #163 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Greece, 1933, Italy Flight, 30d-120d Zeppelins complete (Scott C5-C7), on unflown cover addressed to Francis Field in England, postmarked Athens, May 5, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #164 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Hungary, 1931 (Mar 28-30), Hungary Flight (Michel 161/163Ab), two covers and three cards comprising Friedrichshafen - Budapest originating in Switzerland; Budapest Circuit (card & cover with 1p & 2p Zeppelins, respectively); Debrecen drop (card with 1p Zeppelin); and Budapest - Friedrichshafen (card with 2p Zeppelin), Very Fine.
Michel €410 ($440).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #165 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Iceland, 1931 (Jun 30-Jul 3), Iceland Flight, Reykjavik - Friedrichshafen (Michel 193Aa, 193Ad var.), Roessler Zeppelin card franked with 1kr Zeppelin and plain cover franked with four 30a Zeppelins, a 1kr Zeppelin and two normal 10a Airmails (C1); both with green flight cachets and Friedrichshafen receivers, Very Fine.
Sieger 114A, 114D var.; €615+ ($660).
Michel €400+ ($430).
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #166 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Ireland, 1933 (Jun 3-6), Second South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 305 b), cover franked with 12½d postage tied by Dublin c.d.s.s, Jun 1, with green flight cachet and red Berlin connecting flight cachet, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
Sieger 214b; €250 ($270).
Michel €280 ($300).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #167 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Italy, 1932 (May 2-5), Fourth South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 241), cover with 2.95L postage tied by Rome Airfield c.d.s.s with Munich Airmail handstamp, Berlin connecting flight cachet and South America Flight cachet, Very Fine.
Sieger 157; €350 ($370).
Michel €350 ($370).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #168 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Italy, 1933 (29 May-6 Jun), Rome/2nd South America Flight Flights, Rome - Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 304 A c), card addressed to Buenos Aires franked with 2.75L (front & back) tied by Rome Zeppelin c.d.s.s 29 May, with blue Rome flight cachet, Pernambuco receiver (7 Jun) and Buenos Aires backstamp (10 Jun), Very Fine.
Michel €200 ($210).
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #169 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Italy, 1933 (Jul 1), Third South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife, Barcelona drop (Michel 315 I a), cover franked with 5.25L postage tied by Rome c.d.s.s, Jul 1, with blue flight cachet, Friedrichshafen transit c.d.s. Jul 1 and Pernambuco receiver, Jun 7; backstamped Munich (Jul 1) and Barcelona (Jul 3), Very Fine, Michel does not note an Italian origin for the Barcelona drop.
Sieger 219 C; €330 ++ ($350).
Michel €...
Lot #170 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Latvia, 1933 (Sep 30-Oct 3), Eighth South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 343 b), registered cover franked with 2.45L postage tied by Slampe c.d.s.s, Sep 29, with violet flight cachet and red Berlin Central Airfield and connecting flight cachets, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch); also includes a Zeppelin "drop" leaflet promoting South America Zeppelin Service, Very Fine.
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Lot #171 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Luxembourg, 1935, cover intended for the Tenth South America Flight, registered cover marked printed matter and endorsed specifically for passage on the Tenth South America Flight of the Graf Zeppelin, franked with both Luxembourg and German postage, canceled Aug 5 (Ville) and Aug 6 (Strassburg), respectively, with Stuttgart flight cachet; the Zeppelin was to depart on Aug 13 and arrive in Pernambuco on Aug 16; it was apparently...
Lot #172 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Paraguay, 1933-35, South America Flights (Michel 274D/504D), 11 covers: two 1932, four 1933 and five 1934; all different except two covers and a card on the 4th Flight (Aug 1933), Fine to Very Fine.
Michel €1,050 ($1,120).
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #173 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Romania, 1933 (May 6-9), First South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 294), registered cover franked with 84L postage tied by Bucharest Airmail ovals, May 2, with blue flight cachet, Friedrichshafen transit and Recife backstamp, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
Sieger 202; €400 ($430).
Michel €420 ($450).
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #174 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Romania, 1933 (Aug 19-22), Fifth South America Flight, Friedrichshafen - Recife (Michel 327), registered cover franked with 80L postage tied by Bucharest Airmail ovals, Aug 14, with red flight cachet, Friedrichshafen transit c.d.s. and Recife backstamp; also bears the Brazilian mail Condor Zeppelin cachet used for the return flight on the flap, mounted on a colorful, professionally handmade album page (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
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Lot #175 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Saar, 1930 (Oct 28-31), Pernambuco - Havana (Michel 66 I), cover franked (front & back) with 48.30fr tied by Saarbrücken c.d.s.s, May 13 with German & U.S. flight cachets and Havana Airmail receiver on front, Very Fine.
Sieger 57; €330 ($350).
Michel €450 ($480).
Estimate $200 - 300
The proposed flight to Cuba was canceled and mail intended for the flight was offloaded in Lakehurst and flown to...
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