GPSCC member Bill duBell will share his passion for Zeppelin collecting at our October 20 meeting.

 

Bill is new to Zeppelin collecting after being drawn in by a hand-cacheted cover that someone blanketed with U.S. stamps and placed on the Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen leg of the 1929 Round-the-World Flight.

 

Since he purchased that item, he has obtained over 50 additional Zeppelin covers and postcards including 18 from 1931. His talk will focus on the 1931 covers/postcards. These items are franked with stamps from Germany, Hungary, Iceland, The Netherlands, Russia, Egypt and Brazil. The stamps are airmails, with and without Zeppelin overprints, regular and semi-postal issues and in a couple of instances include exotic “syncopated” perforations. He looks forward to sharing and discussing this part of his collection with the GPSCC and learning more about this topic.

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