1935 German Zeppelin Chicagofahrt Memorial Card

Found this accidentally and need some more information about it and opinios if it is real.

Welcome to the forum Rob-erwt

You might want to try the TRSG on Yahoo. (Third Reich Study Group) They specialize on anything philatelic from that era.

What puzzles me is the illustration of the paratrooper on the side because I thought that the "Graf Zeppelin" was strictly a passenger ship?? I am inclined to think it could be bogus but the group I mentioned could confirm one way or the other.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I can't find any reference to military use of Graf Zeppelin in 1935, however it is recorded that the airship was used to promote the ruling party at rallies etc, for propaganda purposes. Could be this cover is related to that usage. A very interesting item.

Bujutsu, thanks definitely going to contact them, for now all leads are welcome

Robert

I looked in Sieger and cannot find a flight on May 2, 1935. The term "Gedenkblatt" indicates a "memorial" card/sheet, suggesting it was not an item of the year 1935. In addition, none of the 1935 cancels illustrated in the catalog have these angular fives, which remind me of the lightning bolt insignia of the SS.

If the card was produced in the modern age, the stamps would undoubtedly be replicas too.

The reprints of these issues are distinguishable by the perfs. Can you post a larger scan of just the stamps?

hope these are good enough

Those appear to be reprints.

That was my fear, which would make them bogus.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Thanks everyone, guess it was too much to hope to be true, what is the difference in the perfs?

Robert

The originals are comb perf, and the reprints are line.