XXVI Letters and Postcards - Collezione di Cartoline

1. Zeppelin Letter. Berlin-New York 15.05.1929. First transatlantic flight of Graf Zeppelin

The Graf Zeppelin Of many zeppelins, the two most famous were the Graf Zeppelin , completed in September 1928, and the giant Hindenburg , first flown in 1936. The Graf Zeppelin inaugurated transatlantic flight...

1. Zeppelin Letter. Frankfurt-New Jersey 1938, Graf Zeppelin stamped card.

Graf Zeppelin’s Last Flight Hans von Schiller Graf Zeppelin was over the Canary Islands on the last day of a South American flight from Brazil to Germany when it received news of the Hindenburg...

1. Zeppelin Letter. New York. First world flight of Graf Zeppelin, Lakehurst, August 31, 1929

The Graf Zeppelin Of many zeppelins, the two most famous were the Graf Zeppelin , completed in September 1928, and the giant Hindenburg , first flown in 1936. The Graf Zeppelin inaugurated transatlantic flight...

1. Zeppelin Letter. New York. First world flight of Graf Zeppelin, Lakehurst, August 31, 1929 II

The Graf Zeppelin Of many zeppelins, the two most famous were the Graf Zeppelin , completed in September 1928, and the giant Hindenburg , first flown in 1936. The Graf Zeppelin inaugurated transatlantic flight...

1. Zeppelin Postcard. Basel 1930, Graf Zeppelin card.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin ( Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127 ) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen -filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The...

1. Zeppelin Postcard. Berlin (?) -Zurich 1930, Graf Zeppelin card.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin ( Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127 ) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen -filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The...

1. Zeppelin Postcard. Cairo - Friedrichshafen 1931, Graf Zeppelin card.

EGYPT. 1931. Postcard sent from CAIRE 10.4.31 by airship LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin to FRIEDRICHSHAFEN 13.4.31 in Germany. On the picture page you can see the Airship. On April 9, 1931, Graf Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen...

2. Zeppelin Letter. Berlin-New York. First transatlantic flight of Hindenburg 06.05.36

First transatlantic flight of Hindenburg 06.05.36 Between 1924 and the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, Zeppelins revolutionised transatlantic postal services by offering rapid airmail transport. Carrying and servicing mail and freight subsidised the giant airships’...

2. Zeppelin Letter. Frankfurt: Hindenburg Olympiafahrt 01.08.36

Hindenburg was used again for propaganda when it flew over the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on August 1 during the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games . Shortly before the arrival of ...

3. Interesting Postcards. Arctic Explorer, Robert Peary.

ARCTIC EXPLORER. 2 postcards Eagle Island franked 11.7.1908 in the text mentions "Rosevelt" the boat that Peary used when he arrived at the North Pole in 1909 and an unstamped postcard with a picture...

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4. England, Letters. 1840 One Penny Black

Queen Victoria One Penny black on letter pieces, three good margins and one poor. Cancelled DE 28. 1840 Letters Q K. Re-entry plate 6. One Penny Black The Penny Black stamp was the world's...

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4. England, Letters. 1873 One Penny Red

1d. Queen Victoria. (Eastbourne.25.Dec.1873.) Condolance Letters The Victorians marked loss with postmortem photography (posing the dead to look alive to peaceful), keepsake mementos (e.g. a lock of hair turned into a piece of jewelry),...

4. England, Letters. 1878 One Penny Red

1d. Queen Victoria. (London. MR.11.78)

4. England, Letters. 1886 2 1/2 D Violet

1d. Queen Victoria. 2 1/2d. (Birmingham, March 1886) Surface Printed (or Typographed) British stamps were first produced in 1855, and this printing methodology was used for all the definitive postage stamps above the Two Pence denomination. ...

5. Air Mail. BERGEN-TRONDHEIM-TROMSØ, 1st Northern trip and 9-7-1935

BERGEN-TRONDHEIM-TROMSØ. Great letter with 7-7-1935 1st Northern trip and 9-7-1935 with 1st Southern trip. Pretty stamps and varied franking.

FDC 1947 Ceylon

Last stamps under the Crown.

FDC 1957 Bahamas

Nessuna descrizione.

FDC 1957 Gibraltar

Nessuna descrizione.

A collection of US postcards, 19th/20th century

A collection of US postcards, 19th/20th century. About 200 cards.

5. Artist Postcards. Norway, Julius Holck (1902)

"Motif from Nordfjord". Nicely illustrated card by Julius Holck (Ant. J. Karlsen Bergen). Used 1902. Quality 1-2. Poor finances made it difficult for Holck to pursue the artistic profession. He therefore began training as...