I collect Iceland stamps, but don't usually collect covers. However, I couldn't resist this one from the Graf Zeppelin flight to Iceland in July 1931, made shortly after the celebrated Polar flight. It is nice to put these stamps in context. I forgot to make a scan of the reverse, which has Friedrichshafen receiving cachet. Unfortunately, I'm now 2,000 km away from my scanner.
Interestingly, the Sieger, Michel and Frost zeppelin catalogs do not list a price for this cover (with franking of all three Iceland zeppelin stamps). Each of the catalogs lists the 30 Aur and 1 Krone together and the 30 Aur and 2 Kronen together, but no listing for the complete set.
I saw that in the Michel listing, but for the 1931 Polar Flight (as an example) prices are quoted for complete sets of the German Empire and/or Russian zeppelin stamps (depending on the catalog) even though there was no valid rate for using all of the stamps of a particular set on cover.
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Posted 05/04/2015 2:40 pm
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