61st AUCTION - day 4

Zeppelin Mail - Europe: 1936, 16th Flight to South America (H48 - Hindenburg), S

Zeppelin Mail - Europe

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1936, 16th Flight to South America (H48 - Hindenburg), Switzerland via Marseilles (22/10), where DLH took over (thus no red staging cachet). The DLH airplane had already departed Frankfurt 22/10 0045, 21 hours and 17 min after depature of Hindenburg. At Bathurtst, Gambia (23/10 0220) mail was transferred to the Hindenburg with mail drops at Natal (23/10 2317) and Recife (24/10 0152).
Postage SFr 1.90 per 5 g airmail, SFR 0.30 surface rate. Swiss mail via Marseilles flown by Graf Zeppelin are recorded a few, this is one of only two of Swiss mail via Marseilles flown by Hindenburg. Unrecoded in any catalogue.

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Condition: Cover