Zeppelin Flights

PUBLIC AUCTION #112 - 131 - Zeppelin Flights

EGYPT FLIGHTS: Unusual Cover cancelled CAIRO wth special Zeppelin cancel 2x tieing100m Egyptian Zepp stamp to cover addressed in Arabic to "Your Honor Ibrahim Mustafa Al-Souri, DIRECTOR OF USER MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATOR AT EGYPTIAN POST OFFICE, JERUSALEM". Jerusalem receival cancel on front April 13, 1931. Slight vertical bend but still very scarce. (See lot #118 in our last sale, #111, sold for $8000). Photo. Estimated Value $2000

PUBLIC AUCTION #112 - 127 - Zeppelin Flights

GERMAN ZEPP COVER, March 27, addressed to Athens, but on the way back from Palestine, as they are over Athens, because of bad weather, it was forced to turn back. Two bags of mail were dropped...one was found by a shephard two days later and brought to the main post office, backstamped there. The other was never found and contained all the mail of the passengers and crew. This cover was one of the only 480 found from philatelist, P. Drossos. Horizontal fold. Photo. Estimated Value $300