383rd Auction

1936, interesting collection with about 200 covers and cards, including se-tenant-  and souvenir sheet-frankings, special register lables, machine cancels, picture cards, etc, etc. Nice lot.

1936, Zeppelin mail, 28 covers and cards of olympic flight or with olympic frankings, including treaty mail Liechtenstein and Dutch East Indies, complete set on cover, etc.

1936, Lufthansaflug über Friedrichshafen, zwei R-Luftpostbriefe mit u.a. Herzstücke aus Block 5 bzw. 6 je mit Aufgabe "BERLIN-OLYMPIA-STADION e 12.8.36" und mit deutschem Flugpost-Bestätigungsstempel "a" nach Argentinien mit Ankunftsstempel. Beide Briefe mit Beförderungs- und Alterungsspuren, in dieser Kombination selten

1936, Olympiafahrt mit Auflieferung Rhein-Main-Flughafen, zwei Briefe mit Olympia-Blockpaar und Zufrankatur und allen Stempeln, kleine Beförderungsspuren, seltene Verwendung vom Ersttag für die Blockausgaben

EUROPA: 1933/2015, interesting collection with early rocket mail covers, a.o. from Roberti, Smith (India), Schmidl and Zucker with better and interesting part of rocket research in the III Reich with fieldpost covers from Kummersdorf, Peenemünde with a.o. cancellations "Versuchskommando Nord" and sender's form "SS-Rekruten Depot Debica" as well as a card from the concentration camp "Dora Mittelbau". From the 1960s onwards, mostly decorative covers and cancellations (including from Kourou), some with signatures and proofs with, among others, Mauritania Mi.-Nr. 266-68 as imperforated colour proofs in complete sheet sets, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by the collector).

SOVIET UNION: 1965/2015, interesting collection of the various space programmes with many different decorative and special envelopes/cards with better and several signatures, including various on-board mail covers with signatures from Soyuz 39 with a.o. S7 and from TM 3 with various covers from TM5-15 as well as R-letter to Mir (22.07.93). In addition a.o. Poland souvenir sheet II, neatly on 80 exhibition pages (few covers are removed by the collector)

USA: 1933/2012, extensive collection from the beginnings to Space Shuttle programme with many different decorative and special covers, partly with autographs (mostly printed resp. with signature cancellation with i.a. "X-15" cover with e. signature of the pilot "William J. Knight" (reached a top speed of 7300 km/hour in 1965) and on-board cover STS-76 with seven signatures as well as proofs with i.o. Mauritania Mi.No. 217 as imperforated colour proof in complete sheet, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by collector)