Spain, 1930 (May 20-Jun 5), South America Flight (Michel 64A/67A), nine covers or cards including three Seville - Seville (one originating in Barcelona with German flight cachet) and a Seville - Praia (addressed to Santa Cruz de Tenerife) with Spanish flight cachet.
Sieger 58; €2,420 ($2,580).
Michel €1,665 ($1,780).
Estimate $400 - 600.
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 #176 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Lot #177 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Switzerland, 1929 (Aug 15-Sep 4) Round-the-World Flight, Friedrichshafen - Lakehurst (Michel 31), cover franked with 12.50fr tied by Basel c.d.s.s, Aug 10, with red flight cachets, backstamped green Lakehurst Zeppelin receiver, Very Fine.
Sieger 30; €330 ($350).
Michel €300 ($320).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #178 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
United States, 1928 (Oct 29-Nov 1), America Flight, Lakehurst - Friedrichshafen: two covers and a card, the last being a Roessler Zeppelin card franked with 53¢ postage plus a 1¢ Franklin with Roessler's own illegal "Graf Zeppelin" overprint; card has tape-reinforced edges and minor corner bends, but is otherwise Fine; also includes German mail Friedrichshafen - Lakehurst: two cards and a cover.
Michel 7/8. Sieger 21/22....
Lot #179 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
United States, 1929 (Aug 7-Sep 4), Round-the-World Flight (Michel 28A/32A), six covers and two cards from various legs of the flight: Lakehurst (1st landing) - Friedrichshafen (2), Lakehurst - Lakehurst (2), Los Angeles - Lakehurst, Los Angeles - Friedrichshafen (2), Lakehurst (2nd landing) - Friedrichshafen.
Michel €835 ($890).
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #180 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
United States, 1929 (Aug 7-Sep 4) Round-the-World Flight, Lakehurst to Tokyo and to Los Angeles (Michel 29 A, 30 A), cover to Tokyo and card to Los Angeles with all appropriate markings, Very Fine.
Sieger 28B, C; €430 ($460).
Michel €480 ($510).
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #181 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Uruguay, 1931 (Aug 29-Sep 1), First South America, Recife - Friedrichshafen (Michel 217 var.), cover franked with 38c postage tied by Montevideo c.d.s.s with red Zeppelin cachet and Friedrichshafen backstamp; the cover is addressed to Reichenbach and redirected to Paris with backstamps of both those cities, Fine to Very Fine. A great Zeppelin Rarity—Sieger notes that five covers were carried; an accompanying article notes that the...
Lot #182 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1932 (Mar 20-29), First South America Flight (Michel 234b/235C), seven covers or cards: Germany card Friedrichshafen - Recife with Berlin connecting flight cachet, and card Recife - Friedrichshafen with 28 Mar onboard cancel; Great Britain Friedrichshafen - Recife with Berlin connecting flight cachet; Brazil, two cards and a cover to Friedrichshafen, each with a different color cachet; and Paraguay...
Lot #183 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1932, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth & Eighth South America Flights (Michel 241/285), 20 covers or cards; Fourth: Germany card & cover to Recife (onboard cancels), and return flights from Argentina and Bolivia - Friedrichshafen (2); Fifth: Germany card to Recife canceled onboard, cover Recife - Friedrichshafen (onboard mail), France cover to Recife; Brazil Round Trip with mixed German & Brazilian...
Lot #184 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1932 (Sep 26-Oct 4), Seventh South America Flight (Michel 279, 281), 11 covers or cards including a card Austria to Recife via Stuttgart, a Round Trip card with mixed German & Brazilian franking, and return flights from Argentina, Brazil (3), Chile, Paraguay, and a card with German franking posted onboard.
183.
Michel €970 ($1,030).
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #185 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1932 (Oct 24-Nov 3), Ninth South America Flight (Michel 286/291), nine covers or cards including Germany to Recife with Berlin connecting flight cachet, Germany to Rio (onboard card), a cover Great Britain to Buenos Aires and a Round Trip cover with mixed German & Brazilian franking; also three other Brazil and two Argentina; a couple with minor toning, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger 195/196; €860 ($920).
...
Lot #186 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1933, South America Flights (Michel 294/343), 22 cards or covers comprising First (5); Second (6) including one Moscow - Brazil via Berlin 29/31 May, but with no Zeppelin markings or Brazilian receiver (not counted in the catalog value); Third (7), Seventh (5) and Eighth (2); of the 12 German covers, eight are onboard postings; one of the Friedrichshafen postings on the Third South America Flight is mounted on a colorful,...
Lot #187 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1934, South America Flights (Michel 362/413), 41 nearly all different covers or cards plus several Zeppelin picture postcards; mostly Germany and Brazil plus a few Argentina and Uruguay as well as two Great Britain to South America; includes a number of Recife - Rio or Rio - Recife flights, Fine to Very Fine.
Sieger 247/280.
Michel €2,350 ($2,500).
Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot #188 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1935, South America Flights (Michel 443/504), 30 covers or cards; mostly Germany and Brazil plus a few Argentina and Chile; the German covers are all onboard postings, both to and from Recife, the Brazil are mostly Rio - Friedrichshafen; an excellent lot, Very Fine.
Sieger 299/329.
Michel €2,335 ($2,490).
Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot #189 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1935 (Nov 15-Dec 2), Sixteenth South America Flight, Bathurst Shuttle Flights (Michel 499I/501IBa), eight cards or covers including a Sieger matched set of three Brazil View Cards, one carried on each Shuttle Flight Recife - Bath with Bath receivers; a Uruguay card to Germany carried on the 2nd Shuttle Flight with Agency flight cachet; and a cover and card from Spain to Recife carried on the return of the 2nd & 3rd...
Lot #190 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 Flights: Non-German
Worldwide, 1936-37, Flights, about 25 covers or cards, all German or Brazilian despatches including a 1936 "Election Flight" (plus a Nazi propaganda leaflet dropped from that flight) and a 1936 Second South America Flight Round Trip cover with both German & Brazilian franking; also includes a few photos. A marvelous lot, Very Fine.
Michel 507/585; €2,300 ($2,450).
Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot #191 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Airship Material] Hull fabric, group of four small pieces of the hull fabric, 60 x 120 mm, labeled individually "Hull/ exterior shell", "Hull/ raw", "Gas cell/ Hindenburg" and "Gas cell/ gold beater skin".
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #192 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Airship Material] Hull fabric, two small pieces of fabric approximately 30 x 35 mm and 60 x 40 mm, the latter said to be from the Clara Adams estate.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #193 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Airship Material] Piece of duralumin ribbon, "part of the damaged port fin of the Graf Zeppelin damaged during a gale in mid ocean on her first trans-Atlantic flight to United States", attested to in the accompanying photocopy of a letter to collector Fred Hambrock, Jr. on N.A.S. Lakehurst letterhead dated Dec 30, 1929, and signed by H.M. Dietzman, Production Engineer:
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #194 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Autograph] "Mrs. Peter Holland, The Flying Grandmother" on the 1933 Chicago Flight, bold autograph on the inside cover of a tri-fold advertising folder used by Mrs. Holland to promote her speaking tour. Also includes two photos of the Zeppelin over prominent buildings in Akron. Mrs. Holland, at the age of 74, and unbeknownst to her family, flew on the Zeppelin on its return voyage from Akron to Seville and Friedrichshafen, thus...
Lot #195 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] Autograph on DZR promotional leaflet, on ca. 1936 DZR (German Zeppelin Transport Co.) tri-fold leaflet "Freight for South America"; additionally inscribed by Adams, "Passenger 1928, First Flight (USA to Germany), ‘64 Men’ and Clara Adams". A unique form of Mrs. Adams’ autograph; also includes Adams’ Carte de Visite.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #196 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] Autograph on DZR postcard, along with the eight other signatures of passengers (and/or crew), including (readable names) Frida Berner, Hanspaul Berner, G. Wenk von Borowsky and Helmüt Wentz; dated Oct 27, 1935, at the Insel Hotel in Konstanz; at the bottom is a hand drawn cartoon by another passenger, Helmüt Berner, entitled "Garrison Day in Konstanz". A unique piece of Zeppelin memorabilia.
Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot #197 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] 1928 America Flight, letter to Adams, letter dated Oct 26 to Mrs. Adams from an admirer, a "Pennsylvania Dutch man", offering congratulations to the passengers accepted for the return flight, especially "one brave Lady from old keystone state" and "wishing you, and praying for your success"; included is the sender's Lebanon Pa. flour mill business card.
Estimate $100 - 150.
Lot #198 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] 1929, Otto Amtsberg Zeppelin-Eckener Fund card from Clara Adams (Frost P 6a-3), franked with 8pf Ebert tied by Berlin-Charlottenburg Festival slogan cancel, May 23, written (in German) to friends in Augsburg and signed simply "Clara", Very Fine.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #199 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] 1936, First North America Flight, Clara Adams autograph, "Clara Adams, Cabin 19, Hindenburg" on 1936 Zeppelin Transport Co. illustrated 12-page promotional pamphlet entitled 2½ Days to Europe.
Estimate $350 - 500.
Lot #200 - 1: Lighter-Than-Air Flights Graf Zeppelin Collateral Material
[Clara Adams] 1936 First North America Flight, autograph on N.Y. Reception Seating List, 16-page booklet, about 5½" x 8½", containing the complete guest list and table arrangement for a May 10 reception and dinner in honor of Dr. Eckener, Capt. Lehmann and the Crew of the Graf Zeppelin, given by the Board of Trade for German-American Commerce, Inc.; on page 9, below table no. 21, Mrs. Adams has inserted "Mrs. Clara Adams" in pencil...
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