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Mail carried aboard the Graf Zeppelin airship bearing three U.S. Graf Zeppelin airmail stamps, first issued in Washington DC, April 19, 1930. The 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps were a set of three airmail postage stamps, each depicting the image of the Graf Zeppelin, issued by the United States Post Office Department in 1930, exclusively for delivery of mail carried aboard that airship.
Graf Zeppelin over the Atlantic: 20077 L: 93,536 sold April 19, 1930: $1.30 Brown Size: 1+ 84 ⁄ 100 x + 75 ⁄ 100 inch: Graf Zeppelin over the Atlantic: 20085 B: 72,428 sold April 19, 1930: $2.60 Blue Size: 1+ 84 ⁄ 100 x + 75 ⁄ 100 inch: Graf Zeppelin See also: 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps: 20092 R: 61,296 sold August 19, 1931: 5¢ Violet ...
US 65-cent "Zeppelin" stamp, one of three values issued specially for the May–June 1930 Pan-American flight of the Graf Zeppelin. Zeppelin stamps were issued by a few countries to pay the postage for mail carried on Zeppelin flights during the late 1920s and early 1930s when Zeppelins flew passengers and mail from Germany to other countries ...
Mystic, which currently values the stamp at $3 million, traded it in 2005 for an equally valued 1918 plate-number block of Inverted Jennys of "Brewster's Millions" fame.
Although the Graf Zeppelin stamps are today highly prized by collectors as masterpieces of the engraver's art, in 1930 the recent stock market crash meant that few were able to afford these stamps (the $4.55 value for the set represented a week's food allowance for a family of four). Less than 10 percent of the 1,000,000 of each denomination ...
Over three million unsold stamps were destroyed by the US Post Office, making the three Graf Zeppelin issues by far the USPOD's smallest of the 20th century. Despite the poor sales, the US Post Office Department paid Luftschiffbau Zeppelin $100,000 (equivalent to $1,824,000 in 2023 [ 54 ] ) for the carriage of US franked mail on the flight.
Century of Progress U.S. Airmail stamp In 1933 the German airship company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin G.m.b.H (Zeppelin Company) agreed to fly the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin to Chicago if the U.S. Post Office Department would issue a special postage stamp to help defray the enormous costs of the flight. On August 18 postal authorities agreed to issue a 50 ...
Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data. Holiday sales from the ...