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Zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg crash cover from May 6, 1937

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Flying from Frankfurt, Germany to Lakehurst, NJ, USA, zeppelin LZ-129 HINDENBURG carried on the 1st North America Flight 1937 a total of 8 mail bags containing 17,609 cards, covers and parcels. When approaching Lakehurst, the airship burst into flames. Only 368 of the 17,609 postal items were salvaged after the crash, most of them in more or less bad condition.

The illustrated postcard survived the crash and was found in the wreckage of LZ-129 HINDENBURG – the picture side of the card illustrates the good old days of airship travel while parts of the card were burnt. The stamp in the top left corner was washed off another postcard and stuck on this card.

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Today, crash covers from the 1937 LZ-129 HINDENBURG disaster are rare collectible items.

If you want to learn more about zeppelin mail and zeppelin crash covers, visit the website of the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP at http://www.ezep.de/

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ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL press recognition

Monday, October 19th, 2009

The special issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL about the zeppelin mail forgeries (http://www.ezep.de/zpj/2009ibra.html) gets national and international press recognition:

The current issue of the Stamp Magazine from England is featuring the forgeries story. The story appears in their printed edition, in their new online edition and also on their website http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/content/news.html

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New Italian zeppelin mail catalogue out

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Fiorenzo Longhi published an new zeppelin mail catalogue: Zeppelin mail from Italy, Italian Colonies, San Marino and Vatican City from the period 1929 – 1939. This covers the flights of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ-129 Hindenburg and LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II. 972 covers are listed and 730 of them are illustrated. Included is also a price list for all of this material. The book will be presented on October 21, 2009 at ITALIA2009, the international stamp show at Rome, Italy.

Title of the book: CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA – COLONIE ITALIANE – SAN MARINO – VATICANO – 1929 – 1939

Source: http://www.ezep.de/books/books.html

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Ordering information will follow in the next days.

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Low Greek zeppelin mail registration number

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Fiorenzo Longhi reported on page 22 of the Spring08 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL about the lowest known Greek registration number for zeppelin mail on the 1933 LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Rome Flight, which is 7025.
The latest Heinrich Köhler auction (Wiesbaden, Tuesday September 15, 2009, 2 p.m.) presents with lot 1959 an even lower number: 7013.

Source: www.eZEPtalk.de

Direct link: http://www.ezeptalk.de/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=163&p=558#p55834296

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