United States: Postal History 1929, Graf Zeppelin "Round the World" Flight, with United States...
United States: Postal History
1929, Graf Zeppelin "Round the World" Flight,
with United States multi-franking, including 13c Harrison plate block of eight, postmarked New York, with German "Weltrundfahrt" confirmation cachet, signed "Ernst A. Lehmann" in blue ink, Friedrichshafen arrival backstamp, uncommon with German flight cachet, attractive and fine.
Captain Ernst August Lehmann was second-in-command of LZ 126 on the first nonstop transatlantic flight to America, and served as commanding officer on more than one hundred flights of the Graf Zeppelin; he was a victim of the Hindenburg disaster
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United States: Postal History
1929, Graf Zeppelin "Round the World" Flight,
with United States multi-franking, including 13c Harrison plate block of eight, postmarked New York, with German "Weltrundfahrt" confirmation cachet, signed "Ernst A. Lehmann" in blue ink, Friedrichshafen arrival backstamp, uncommon with German flight cachet, attractive and fine.
Captain Ernst August Lehmann was second-in-command of LZ 126 on the first nonstop transatlantic flight to America, and served as commanding officer on more than one hundred flights of the Graf Zeppelin; he was a victim of the Hindenburg disaster
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