Sale 707 The Knapp Collection of Airmail Flights

United States, 1928 (Oct 29-Nov 1), America Flight, Lakehurst - Friedrichshafen: two covers and a card, the last being a Roessler Zeppelin card franked with 53¢ postage plus a 1¢ Franklin with Roessler's own illegal "Graf Zeppelin" overprint; card has tape-reinforced edges and minor corner bends, but is otherwise Fine; also includes German mail Friedrichshafen - Lakehurst: two cards and a cover.
Michel 7/8. Sieger 21/22.
Estimate $200 - 300

Roessler felt that the U.S. should have commemorated the flight of the Zeppelin with its own postage stamp(s). Consequently he created his own, an illegal act for which he nearly was imprisoned.