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28/6/1932 SWITZERLAND - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to Switzerland. Card franked with 2 Swiss stamps, one of them Airmail (Cat. Unificato 260 + A18), with cancellations of Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) and Zurich. (All post offices in Switzerland were authorised to collect letters and documents to be sent by the airship.) The Airmail stamp used catalogues Euro 67.00 - Lotto/42358 WE WELCOME OFFERS

28/7/1932 LIECHTENSTEIN - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to Danzig. Card franked with a Liechtenstein Airmail stamp (Cat. Unificato/Yvert A/6), with the departure cancellation of Triesenberg and Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) and that of Ronne (Danzig). (Between the England voyage and the 5th South America crossing, the airship reached Danzig for the LUPOSTA aerophilatelic exhibition.) The Airmail stamp used catalogues Euro 70.00 - Lotto/42359 WE WELCOME OFFERS

11/10/1932 BRAZIL - 8th South America voyage of the airship Lz 127, return flight. Cover franked with Brazilian stamps and stamps of the Varig company, carried by aeroplane via Varig Condor from Santa Cruz to Porto Alegre, then by airship as far as Friedrichshafen and on to Berlin by air. A very fine and uncommon cover, not least for the 50 reis Varig franking - Lotto/42360 WE WELCOME OFFERS

30/4/1933 SWITZERLAND - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage over Germany. Card franked with 2 Swiss stamps, one of them Airmail (Cat. Unificato 243 + A18), with cancellations of Romanshorn, Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) and Dresden. (Shortly before the 1933 South America voyage, the Graf Zeppelin, then on its 301st voyage, left Friedrichshafen for a propaganda tour over Germany, which ended after mail drops over several German cities.) The Airmail stamp used catalogues Euro 67.00 - Lotto/42361 WE WELCOME OFFERS

4/9/1933 GERMANY - 6th flight of the Zeppelin airship Lz 127 to South America. Cover to Rio de Janeiro franked with a 1 mark Airmail (Cat. Unificato A/35) plus the 20 and 30p. effigy of Hindenburg (Cat. Unificato 452 and 454), with the on-board postmark. Initialled L. Gazzi - Lotto/42365 WE WELCOME OFFERS

25/5/1934 GERMANY - First voyage of the Zeppelin airship Lz 127 to South America. Card to Buenos Aires franked with a 2 mark Airmail (Cat. Unificato A/52), effigy of Lilienthal, with postmarks of Berlin and Friedrichshafen and the Buenos Aires arrival - Lotto/42366 WE WELCOME OFFERS

3/8/1934 SWITZERLAND - 5th voyage to South America of the airship Lz 127. Cover franked with Swiss stamps (Cat. Unificato 230 + 259 + 277), cancelled Zurich 7 (Enge), plus the Friedrichshafen postmark and the Montevideo (Uruguay) arrival - Lotto/42367 WE WELCOME OFFERS

12/10/1934 SWITZERLAND - 10th voyage to South America of the airship Lz 127. Cover franked with Swiss Airmail stamps (Cat. Unificato A15 + A16 x2), with the Swiss postmark of Rorschach plus the Friedrichshafen postmark and the Montevideo (Uruguay) arrival - Lotto/42368 WE WELCOME OFFERS

22/3/1935 PARAGUAY - First flight of the Graf Zeppelin Lz 127, return flight. Cover franked with Paraguayan Airmail stamps, addressed to Hamburg, with the postmarks "Servicio Aereo Transoceanico Paraguay Europa" plus "Servizio Aereo Paraguay Condor Zeppelin Lufthansa" - Lotto/42369 WE WELCOME OFFERS

18/4/1935 GERMANY - 2nd voyage to South America, Rio de Janeiro. Cover franked with the 15, 50 and 100p. Airmail (Cat. Unificato A45/A49/A51), with an Arnsberg postmark and the red mark "Deutsche Luftpost Europa Sudamerika". On the reverse, Rio de Janeiro and Manha Rio postmarks - Lotto/42370 WE WELCOME OFFERS

13/8/1935 GERMANY - 10th voyage to South America, Rio de Janeiro. Card franked with a 1 mark Airmail (Cat. Unificato A35) plus a 10p. red (A28) and a pair of the 15p. (Cat. 544), with the postmark "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Europa Sudamerica" - Lotto/42371 WE WELCOME OFFERS

20/1/1936 NETHERLANDS - First flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin Lz 127 to South America. Cover franked with Dutch stamps (Cat. Unificato 135 + 145 + 146 x6), with the Rotterdam Calands 1 postmark plus the red Europe-South America flight mark, carried to Santiago de Chile - Lotto/42372 WE WELCOME OFFERS

8-9/5/1936 GERMANY - First voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. A group of 2 postcards to New York franked with Hindenburg Airmail stamps, with the on-board postmark for the last Atlantic crossing (8/5/1936) and the on-board postmark for the day of arrival in New York, 9/5/1936 - Lotto/42375 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/8/1936 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Lz 129 Hindenburg to Berlin for the Olympic Games. Cover with the postmark "Frankfurt am Main Flug und Luftschiffhafen" and, on the reverse, a Berlin postmark. (In the middle of a heavy storm, the airship began its flight on 1 August 1936 for the opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin. On its arrival at Tempelhof airport in Berlin it was greeted by all the athletes taking part in the opening ceremony.) Lotto/42378 WE WELCOME OFFERS

17/9/1936 GERMANY - Eighth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Registered cover to Lakewood, Ohio, franked with the 75p. Hindenburg Airmail (Cat. Unificato A56), with the Frankfurt postmark - Lotto/42379 WE WELCOME OFFERS

26/9/1936 GERMANY - Ninth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Registered cover to New York franked with the Hindenburg Airmail set (Cat. Unificato A55/A56), with the Frankfurt postmark and the New York arrival - Lotto/42380 WE WELCOME OFFERS

3/10/1936 NETHERLANDS - Tenth voyage of the airship Lz 129 "Hindenburg" to North America. Cover franked with the 12.5 cent. (Cat. Unificato 287), addressed to New York, with an Assen (Netherlands) postmark and the New York arrival - Lotto/42381 WE WELCOME OFFERS

8/7/1938 GERMANY - Official card with the special Friedrichshafen postmark for the centenary of the birth of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the airship. Very fine and uncommon - Lotto/42384 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/12/1938 GERMANY - Airship Lz. 30, inaugural voyage over the Sudetenland. Card with the Frankfurt postmark and the Reichenberg arrival postmark. (After the tragic end of the Hindenburg, a modern and perfected airship was built, the Graf Zeppelin Lz. 130, which began the first voyage of its short career with a flight over Czechoslovak territory as far as Reichenberg, now renamed Liberec.) - Lotto/42385 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/12/1938 GERMANY - Airship Lz. 30, voyage over the Sudetenland. Card with the Frankfurt postmark "Flug und Luftschiffhafen" and those of Reichenberg 2/12/38 and Schluckenau (today Sluknov, Czechoslovakia) - Lotto/42386 WE WELCOME OFFERS