Thematic: Aviation

13/10/1929 GERMANY - Voyage of the airship Graf Zeppelin Lz 127 to the Netherlands (Amsterdam), having left Friedrichshafen (Bodensee), with a German franking. Card in excellent condition - Lotto/42255 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1929 UNITED STATES - Round-the-world voyage of the Zeppelin airship Lz 127. Postal card with added franking and an Orange postmark. It left on the morning of 15 August to begin its circumnavigation under the command of Dr Hugo Eckener, with 20 passengers aboard and a crew of 41, ending at Friedrichshafen. The itinerary included stops at Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York, and the voyage was completed in 12 days. The American Post applied the large violet-ink handstamp to all the mail to commemorate the event. Very fine and uncommon - Lotto/42254 WE WELCOME OFFERS

30/4/1932 Kingdom of Italy - Cover to Brazil, 4th flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 to South America. Cover franked with 1 and 5 Lire of the Kingdom, Dante Alighieri Society issue (Cat. Sassone A27/A29), plus 1,25 Lire G. Garibaldi (Cat. Sassone 321) and 25 and 75 cent. (Cat. Sassone 10-12) (Cat. value of the stamps used on cover Euro 590.00). Superb cover - Rare - genuinely carried to Brazil - Lotto/42253 WE WELCOME OFFERS

16/5/1929 GERMANY - 1st Nordamerikafahrt. Flown cover from Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) to New York. (To inaugurate this first voyage the airship Lz 127 left on 16 May 1929, but after a day in the air had to turn back and put down at Cuers in France for repairs to allow its return to Germany; the departure was then made a second time on 1 August 1929.) Cachet in red "Beforderung verzogert wegen Abbruchs der 1. Amerikafahrt" (carriage delayed owing to the abandonment of the 1st America flight) - Lotto/42252 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

10/7/1936 GERMANY - 5th voyage of the airship Lz 129 Hindenburg to North America (10 to 17 July 1936). Superb registered cover to New York with a Berlin postmark and the Europe-North America Luftpost postmark. On the reverse, a superb Berlin Olympics poster stamp (chiudilettera) and the New York arrival postmarks - Lotto/48506 WE WELCOME OFFERS

5-20/10/1974 - ITALY - Rovigo, 2nd Aerophilatelic Exhibition, a group of one cover and one postcard with special postmarks - Lotto/42739

30/9/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - a postcard, Pisa S. Giusto airport, the 4th rally of the Aerosiluranti, a numbered postcard with a special pictorial postmark, published in 300 examples - Lotto/42738

29/9/1974 - ITALY, REPUBLIC - A postal card overprinted Aeroporto Pisa S. Giusto for the fourth reunion of the torpedo-bomber crews. A numbered card with a special pictorial postmark, published in 500 copies, plus the special flight cover - Lotto/42737

27/9/1974 - ITALY, REPUBLIC - A postal card overprinted Cagliari Elmas for the fourth reunion of the torpedo-bomber crews (an event commemorating the air and sea battle of 27 September 1941). A numbered card with a special pictorial postmark, published in 500 copies, plus the special flight cover - Lotto/42736

7/9/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the special INTERFLUG air line Milan-Leipzig, an airmail despatch for the Leipzig autumn fair - Lotto/42735

11/3/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the special INTERFLUG air line Milan-Leipzig, an airmail despatch for the Leipzig spring fair - Lotto/42734

31/9/1974 - ITALY - XXVI International Sicily Air Rally - numbered cover, special mail dispatch carried aboard competition aircraft No. 80, with philatelic franking plus a Poligrafico dello Stato label overprinted for the occasion - Lotto/42733

17/6/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the inaugural Alitalia flight AZ 1256 Trieste-Vienna, a cover carried by a dc9 aircraft - Lotto/42732

27/571974 - SWITZERLAND - the first Alitalia flight Zurich-Naples with a Douglas DC 9 Jet - a registered cover to Naples - Lotto/42731

26/5/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - Guidonia (RM), the 50th anniversary of the first Aerial Observation course - the official postcard with the special postmark - Lotto/42730

8/11/1974 - ITALIAN REPUBLIC - the I Interflug postal flight Milan-Berlin - a postcard flown with the arrival postmark of Berlin - Lotto/42741

1974 - ITALY - Bologna, numbered souvenir sheet of 4 poster stamps issued for the anniversary of Francesco Zambeccari's flight in his aerostatic machine of 1803 - edition of 1000 souvenir sheets, of which this is Number 916 - Lotto/42742

16/3/1975 - ITALY - for the exhibition "Lombardia produce" held in Kiev, scheduled flight SU 286 Milan to Moscow called at the Ukrainian capital, and was operated by the three-engined Tupolev TU 154 - Lotto/42744

18/6/1934 BRAZIL - Second voyage of the Zeppelin airship Lz 127. Card to Germany, "Pernambuco Serv. Correio Aereo", transatlantic air service Brazil-Europe. (Mail for Europe from all the countries of Latin America was collected and loaded onto the airship at Pernambuco and given the special handstamp "Condor Zeppelin Lufthansa".) - Lotto/42377A WE WELCOME OFFERS