Lot 2122
 
Airmail, 1930 Japanese Seapost Zeppelin cover, Lakehurst-Seville, postcard franked with a block of six 11¢ light blue (563), tied by violet "Tatsuta-Maru, I.J. Seapost, 17.5.30" c.d.s.s, red handstamped cachet for the maiden voyage of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line's ocean liner, M.S. Tatsuta-Maru, U.S. Zeppelin flight cachet and green Lakehurst Zeppelin arrival postmarks on front, Seville June 7, 1930 arrival postmark and Spanish Zeppelin Agency cachet on reverse. A Very Fine and exceedingly rare combination. Sieger 64K. Michel 67Gd.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
BELEIVED TO BE UNIQUE — THE ONLY ZEPPELIN COVER ORIGINATING ON A PACKETBOAT.
The card was dispatched on board the Tatsuta-Maru on May 17, 1930. After arriving at San Francisco the card was sent to Lakehurst and connected there with the Graf Zeppelin on which it was carried as far as Seville on the return leg of her South America Flight.
The Tatsuta-Maru was built as a passenger liner for the Yokohama – San Francisco route. She was the first liner to pass under the Oakland Bay Bridge at the opening ceremony in 1936. In 1941 she was converted to a transport ship for the Japanese navy and in 1943 was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine and sunk off of Mikurashima, Japan.
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