Airship Stamps: Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine

Hi Everyone,
I love airship stamps! I know that three of the five I have in this thread are CTO's but I love them just as much, LOL...

I would love to see some airship stamps. Please do share, and any information you have about them, where you purchased them, how old they are, Scott #'s etc would be great too!

I have not looked up any of these stamps in the catalog yet. I wanted to get these online to share with you all. I do admit, I are more partial to the old (non-CTO) airship stamps though but the CTO airships have such a nice story to them.

Enjoy and have a great day! (Darn, am having trouble uploading... will try later...
SueStamps

I don't know how to add more photos to my original thread so I will just add these airship stamps here, CTOs but I like the story to them, the bottom one is interesting:

I think Jules Verne experimented with some sort of Timothy Leory style enhancements in his day. Stamp celebrates around the world in 80 days but looks like Wizard of OZ meets the magical mystery tour. Great depiction of an airship .

Here's a cover (mailed to the US) with that second stamp you scanned from Germany:

Hi nitrolures, Now I have to look up Jules Verne, name sounds familiar. Timothy Leory? Isn't that a song from.. hmmm I have to look that up to, I like the song! I love your comment (thread I think). Fantastic description of what you see!
SueStamps

nitrolures wrote:
I think Jules Verne experimented with some sort of Timothy Leory style enhancements in his day. Stamp celebrates around the world in 80 days but looks like Wizard of OZ meets the magical mystery tour. Great depiction of an airship .

Hi wt1,
That's a great cover, are those two postmarks and is the return address in the bottom left? Very interesting.
Thanks for sharing!
SueStamps

My Mother was a good friend of Timothy's Leary's back in the mid 60's into the early 80's before he got sick.

Oh yeah I almost forgot! -

Jules Verne is credited as the forefather of Sci Fi and for his time had to be considered a bit odd. However he has surely influenced some of todays greats such as James Cameron with his undersea expoditions and possibly George Lucas for his space adventures. Many of the far out ideas he had have actually came to realization with Underwater and space travel.

My favorites:

Nice photos, thanks for sharing!

Hi SueStamps

Timothy Leary is mentioned in one of the songs of "The Tribal Love Rock Musical Hair"
I think the line goes
"Now that I've dropped out life is like dreary dreary, A Timothy Leary Theory."

Good show they keep reviving the show here.
There is also a movie, but I like the stage show much more
Horamakhet

Back to the Germany cover I posted earlier, here are close ups of the two postal markings ... the black one over the stamp is the official cancellation ... the red one more of a commemorative marking showing the cover was flown on that airship. (By the way L.Z. 129 was the ill-fated Hindenburg).

Hi Horamkhet,
You know, now I am curious about Timothy Leary for sure! I'm going to look him up online. I thought he was a fictional character...

It was bothering me that I couldn't think of the name of the band who also did a song about Timothy Leary. It was the music band: Moody Blues. I am old, so I know who they are, lolol...

Moody Blues Legend of a Mind Lyrics:
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.

Hi wt1,
Thank you for posting close up photos of the postmarks.

Ya know, I've seen more than one postmark on an envelope before, but never knew why. Thanks for sharing.

Do you know what the writing in black in that touches the red postmark stands for?

Thanks again!
SueStamps

If you look at the original cover you will see that the stamp is over the typewritten "...L.Z. 129" ... and "L.Z. 129" was the registration number for the Hindenburg. It was typewritten on the envelope so it would be certain to be included within the mail on that flight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg