383rd Auction
14–15 & 18–23 March 2024 in Wiesbaden
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1893/1956, interesting collection with 760 covers, cards, postal stationary on the topic: "Illustrated product and company advertising", neatly in 4 albums, including 1 album with 230 pcs. coloured advertisements. The main part is Germany, mainly German Reich until 1945 with many scarce illustrations, abroad is represented with about 80 covers, including much USA with attractive illustrations, in very interesting stock
1900/45, extensive collection of 825 covers in 5 albums. Zeppelin mail with 183 covers, thereof 127 pieces German Reich with Zeppelin letters and cards, lithos, occasion cards as well as 4 memorabilia with several better covers a.o. 2 lithos LZ.1, 2 folding cards, cancellation card LZ. 4 as reprint St. "5.8.08", Michel-Zepp.-Spezial No. 4 a) g., 6x Rhein-Main 1912, Michel no. 47)b, Si. 57 EE with 2 RM SAF, Si. 57 A with 2 RM SAF, Si. 69. Bb, Zeppelin card Baltic Sea round trip with autograph text and autograph of Dr H. Eckener, Si. 119 F with 4 RM Polarfahrt€, Si. 428 D, Si. 129 D, 1 SAF-Lichtenstein, 2nd SAF - Switzerland, 1x Si. 102Aa Hungary and much better more, plus album with 64 old Zeppelin picture postcards. Also German and international airmail with 578 covers, including German Reich with 132 air-mail letters and cards, with many better covers, especially from the 1920s, some pioneer airmail, but also good and attractive airmail covers from Europe and oversea, including a total of over 270 first flights, including 66 old aeroplane picture postcards in the Album
1912/53, very interesting group of over 320 entire items, including many ILA, yellow and green dog, Bavarian air-mail, E.EL.P, 4 M. Polarfahrt, Südameriakfahrt, catapult and ejection flight, Zuleitungspost, some franked with Zeppelin stamps, interesting destinations and cancellations, mostly fine condition
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1909/38, comprehensive holding with focus on the early air-mail incl. balloon post with better flights, picture postcards and vignettes, in addition good part air-mail Rhine/Main with better postage paid (i.a. multiple Mi.-Nr. IV as well as Mi.-Nr. V and twice No. VI on special cards) and "Halbamtliche Flugpostmarken" with i.a. Mi.-Nr. 5, 9 (over 20x) and 10 on air-mail stamps, better often signed resp. with certificates, the condition is partly defective, often in good condition
1909/1940 (ca.), German air-mail collector's stock with over 600 covers/cards, including Flugwoche Köln official 1909 field postcard "Blériot" used, air-mail 1912 Wiesbaden-Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Munich with attractive postage paid, air-mail Adlershof 1918 with vignette, air-mail Görlitz 1926, etc., plus approx. 80 air-mail cards "Blick auf..." unused, approx. 750 unused air-mail cards 1912 air-mail on the Rhine and Main, literature, etc.; mostly in clean condition
1910/51, interesting group of over 50 covers and cards from Bavaria semi-official air-mail, also Rhine-Main with better, good Zeppelin frankings with a.o. SAF two values 4M. on letter, Polarfahrt 4M. two single frankings, catapult mail etc., slightly different condition varies.
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1912/81 (approx.), mostly German airmail letter collection with over 100 covers, main focus 1912 to 1935, incl. Graff Zeppelin, Do-X and catapult flight, many special cancellations and other specialities, including Mi.-Nr. IV on airmail card (certificate Sieger BPP), mixed frankings German Reich-Colombia, etc., including small part Bizone airmail folded letters and South America, the condition is partly somewhat defective, but mostly in good overall condition, ex Nagel
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6Catalogue no.
1929/79 (approx.), mostly German airmail letter collection, focus Bizone and Berlin West airmail folded letters "Taxe Perçue", with registered covers, many different cancellations and other uses, mostly in good condition, ex Nagel
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6MCatalogue no.
LUFTHANSA: 1972/82 (approx.), estimated 15,000 special covers, neatly sorted in boxes
1930/34, interesting collection "Balbo-Flug" 1930 with among others first flight letter with 18 signatures of the pilots and 12 different special cards with photos of the squadron pilots (all used with vignettes and commemorative stamps), additionally stamps and two special cards for the postal flight "Rome - Buenos Aires", clean on self designed album sheets, additionally some literature and pieces from auction catalogues, ex Dr. Findheiss
1926/35, interesting group of 67 "Roessler" airmail covers, including 1 catapult flight 1930 and a zeppelin cover "Akron" trip no. 29, otherwise mostly first flight covers, mostly fine condition
1927/40, USA, album with 90 illustrated airmail covers, including 70 first flights
1929/38, 23 catapult mail covers and a scarce illustrated brochure with items, fees and schedules for catapult flights in the year 1935
1933/90, extensive collection "Air Mail" with several hundred airmail letters/cards, mostly from the need with interesting postage paid, cancellations and specials, together in 13 folders, ex Dr Findeiss
1935/40, USA, 101 air-mail letters from transatlantic and trans-Pacific flights with several scarce flights and attractive covers, well preserved
1939/44, small stock with focus on airmail covers from and to South America, mostly LATI with feeders, interesting postage rates etc., ex Dr Findeiss
1939/45, extensive collection "DER ITALIENISCHE SÜDATLANTISCHE LUFTPOSTDIENST 1939-41 (VIA L.A.T.I)" with several hundred letters from and to South America incl. a good part of the airmail lines after LATI was discontinued in 20 folders. Including several covers from the first flight in 1939 with, among others, feeders from Rodi, Switzerland and the Vatican (without special cancellations), plenty of demand mail from the German Reich including airmail wrappers and further feeders from Bohemia & Moravia, one letter each from the Generalgouvernement and DP Alsace, Belgium, Denmark, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain and Hungary. The section with covers from South America is also very extensive, including the "First flight Rio de Janeiro - Buenos Aires" section with better covers and special features. In addition, further special features of the mailing incl. complete "coffee" linen bags", censorship, return mail etc., all on self-designed album pages and lots of literature or pieces with photos from auction catalogues. A certainly unique collection of this kind, it Dr Findeiss
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4Catalogue no.
1929/31, high-quality collection with 33 covers and cards, mostly better postage paid South America trip incl. American post multiple and Polar trip multiple, all on self-made album pages with decorative watercolour paintings. Some of the covers are unfresh, the album pages themselves are small works of art and certainly unique of their kind
1924/35, group with 3 Zeppelin covers and a catapult mail letter, including a.o. 2nd South America trip with Danzig postage paid
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6MCatalogue no.
1929/37, comprehensive holding with emphasis from 1932 with some better flights and specialities, including winner Nos. 34e, 34i, 166c, ex 208A-F, 209ID, 238D with complete Chicagofahrt set and 2x 0352I, plus interesting part of treaty states mail with covers from Belgium, Gdansk, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Russia, Saar, Sweden and Hungary, good condition throughout, practically no excess quantities.
1924/56 (approx.), substantial group of more than 250 covers and cards, including the majority of treaty states, including Iceland, Denmark, England, Finland, Soviet Union, etc., German Reich sheet 1 (defective) on card with cancellation "FAHRT RUND UM DEN OSTSEE 1930", two registered covers each with German Reich sheets 5+6, as well as some airmail, some signed, mostly good condition.
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Austria: 1928/35, interesting collection from FS-01 with many different covers and cards as well as plenty of vignettes including varieties, proofs and specials, including postal stationery envelopes, R-card and some covers from Yugoslavia, together in three albums
EUROPA: 1933/2015, interesting collection with early rocket mail covers, a.o. from Roberti, Smith (India), Schmidl and Zucker with better and interesting part of rocket research in the III Reich with fieldpost covers from Kummersdorf, Peenemünde with a.o. cancellations "Versuchskommando Nord" and sender's form "SS-Rekruten Depot Debica" as well as a card from the concentration camp "Dora Mittelbau". From the 1960s onwards, mostly decorative covers and cancellations (including from Kourou), some with signatures and proofs with, among others, Mauritania Mi.-Nr. 266-68 as imperforated colour proofs in complete sheet sets, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by the collector).
SOVIET UNION: 1965/2015, interesting collection of the various space programmes with many different decorative and special envelopes/cards with better and several signatures, including various on-board mail covers with signatures from Soyuz 39 with a.o. S7 and from TM 3 with various covers from TM5-15 as well as R-letter to Mir (22.07.93). In addition a.o. Poland souvenir sheet II, neatly on 80 exhibition pages (few covers are removed by the collector)
USA: 1933/2012, extensive collection from the beginnings to Space Shuttle programme with many different decorative and special covers, partly with autographs (mostly printed resp. with signature cancellation with i.a. "X-15" cover with e. signature of the pilot "William J. Knight" (reached a top speed of 7300 km/hour in 1965) and on-board cover STS-76 with seven signatures as well as proofs with i.o. Mauritania Mi.No. 217 as imperforated colour proof in complete sheet, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by collector)
1933/45, interesting collection with 55 entire items, including 29 rocket mail covers and cards German Reich (8 x autograph G. Zucker), 2 covers Austria, 1 letter GB, 14 covers France, 4 x Netherlands, 3 x Australia, 2 x USA, clean condition