Lot 1026
German Airships - Hindenburg Disaster, Cover retrieved from the wreckage at Lakehurst, N.J. after the fire that destroyed the airship after its arrival on 6 May 1937. Mailed originally from Rotterdam, Netherlands on 1 May, the cover is franked with a 12½c Scout stamp and mailed to a Mr. G. Thoolen in Wooster, Ohio. It bears the red Frankfurt Zeppelin mail cachet and is one of only 23 pieces of Dutch mailed recovered
Also included is a cover flown on the Hindenburg on a flight from Frankfurt to Cologne, 1 May 1937, its final flight before leaving for America, and a registered card intended for the return flight to Germany with the handstamp "Intended for first eastbound flight of Airship 'Hindenburg' in 1937. Could not be forwarded on account of accident to Airship, May 6, 1937".
Estimate 12,000 - 15,000
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