Thematic: Aviation

7/9/1930 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127 to Breslau (Poland). Superb picture postcard franked with a 1 mark "views" stamp (Unificato 355). Postmark "Friedrichshafen (Bodensee)" plus the arrival mark "Breslau" (Sieger 83a) - Lotto/42337 WE WELCOME OFFERS

20/7/1930 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage through the Rhine valley. Superb picture postcard franked with Airmail stamps (Yvert 28/29/31) plus a 25pf ordinary post. Postmark "Friedrichshafen (Bodensee)" plus the arrival postmark "Lachen Pfalz" (Sieger 75a) - Lotto/42336 WE WELCOME OFFERS

15/6/1930 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage within Germany to Hartha. Superb picture postcard franked with a 1 Mark stamp (Cat. Yvert 31), with the on-board postmark "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin" (Sieger 65a) - Lotto/42335 WE WELCOME OFFERS

27/4/1930 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to England. Superb picture postcard franked with a 1 Mark stamp (Cat. Yvert 31), with the on-board postmark "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin" - Lotto/42334 WE WELCOME OFFERS

26/3/1929 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127 to Palestine. Cover franked with a 2 mark (Cat. Yvert 36), with the on-board postmark and the Er Ramle arrival postmark. (The Palestine arrival handstamp, applied after the drop over Er Ramle, was struck on only a small part of the mail and on that handed in by passengers at the on-board office.) - Lotto/42333 WE WELCOME OFFERS

12/7/1931 AUSTRIA - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to Vienna. Cover franked with Austrian Airmail stamps (Cat. Unificato A24 - A29), cancelled "Wien 1". (The airship reached Vienna by the most direct route and landed at Aspern airport; the return to Friedrichshafen was made the same evening, shortly after midnight.) (Cat. Unificato, the two stamps used, Euro 115.00) - Lotto/42345 WE WELCOME OFFERS

18/8/1931 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to England. Cover franked with a 2 mark Airmail "views" stamp (Yvert 36), with the on-board cancellation, addressed to poste restante, London (the used stamp catalogues Euro 75.00). Signed L. Gazzi - Lotto/42347 WE WELCOME OFFERS

29/8/1931 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, first voyage to South America. Cover franked with a pair of the 2 mark Airmail "views" stamp (Yvert 36 x2), carried on the air link between Berlin and Friedrichshafen that brought in the mail gathered in the capital. Addressed to Rio de Janeiro, with Cape Verde and Rio de Janeiro postmarks on the reverse (the used stamp catalogues Euro 75.00 x2) - Lotto/42348 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

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

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

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

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

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

18/6/1932 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, voyage to the Netherlands. Card franked with 2 German stamps (Cat. Unificato A/31 + 407), with the on-board postmark plus a Groningen handstamp. Mail drop - Lotto/42353 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1/4/1932 LIECHTENSTEIN - 2nd Zeppelin Lz 127 flight, South America voyage. Postcard franked with Liechtenstein Airmail stamps (Yvert 2 x2 + 3 x2 and the 1 franc, 6 stamps in all). (Most of the mail carried by the German airship that originated in other countries could be franked with that country's own stamps only where a postal convention had been signed; for Liechtenstein and Switzerland this was done at the time of the 1929 voyages.) Vaduz postmark plus a Friedrichshafen postmark. Postcard to Sao Paulo, Brazil (value of the stamps alone, used, Euro 210.00) - Lotto/42351 WE WELCOME OFFERS

18/9/1931 GERMANY - Zeppelin flight of the Lz 127, second voyage to South America. Card franked with a 2 mark Airmail "views" stamp (Yvert 36) plus two Brazilian stamps, one of them an Airmail overprinted "Zeppelin" (Cat. Yvert 27). Handed in for despatch at Friedrichshafen, this card carried a double mixed franking covering the outward and return postal service. Addressed to Pernambuco, Brazil - Lotto/42349 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

20/9/1986 - ITALY - Rovato (BS) - 60th Anniversary of the transpolar flight of the airship Norge, celebrations for Agostino and Attilio Caratti - special pictorial postmark on an official postcard, postally used to Como - Lotto/42298

31/9/1924 GERMANY, MUNICH - First transatlantic voyage to North America of the airship ZR-3. Cover flown from Munich to Milwaukee, arriving 19/10/1924 (USA). (The departure took place from Friedrichshafen and, after a non-stop flight of 81 hours and 17 minutes at an average speed of 110 km/h, the voyage ended at the Lakehurst airfield, New York.) Very fine and uncommon cover - Lotto/42248 WE WELCOME OFFERS