Is This A Zeppelin Flight Cover?

Sold to me as a Zep flight cover but does the cachet indicate this is a Zeppelin cover? Or is this a standard airmail cover? I can not see any airship mentioned on the cover. The back only has the same Fritz Muller cachet as seen on the front. Any info on this cover welcomed. Thanks all for the help.

It looks like a regular airmail cover to me. A Zeppelin cover would have a mention of it. Sorry!

Peter

That's what I think as well not a Zep cover at all just a Reich airmail cover :(

There seems to be numbers of such covers around classed as Zeppelin covers which do not mention any airship. I can assume all are standard airmail covers

I just had a quick thought: The center cancel shows a Zeppelin along with another airplane type and perhaps went with a more topical description because of the cancel rather than a piece that actually traveled by zep mode??

yeh you maybe right on the cachet but that's still not a reason for them to claim its a Zep cover. From now on I only bid on ones that say either Condor Zep, Graf or Hundenburg.

Have any of the "experts" above consulted the Sieger Catalog which list dates of flights? There are a number of such covers on ebay with the same red flight cachet. Hard to tell the date of the cover from scan, but it looks like September 1934. There was a flight to South America at that time.

I make it September 20, 1934.

Yes that is the correct date seen best on the green stamp

On September 20, 1934, the Graf Zeppelin took off from Rio and landed in Recife on September 21. It was in the middle of the 8th South American Flight that lasted from September 15 to September 25.

The red cachet with the two stars before and after "Deutsche Luftpost" [German Airmail] was utilized in Stuttgart. A quick check of Wikipedia shows that Esslingen is 9 miles from the center of Stuttgart.

Sorry to say, Duncan -- it's only a regular air mail cover.

Thanks for clarifying I now only buy ones that say Graf or Hindenburg on them, was looking at Zep cover auctions yesterday and found more regualr airmail flights marked as Zeppelin covers. I think buyers and sellers need to be more careful buying things listed as Zep covers when they are not always Zep but regular airmail ones. If it doesn't say Zeppelin don't bid on it.