Zepps?

i was reading an old topic and saw something that kinda looks like this is this a zepp?

Zepp....Zeppelin....Dirigible.......gas filled balloons.

Probably the most famous one was the Hindenburg.

Alas, with the state of education today, if you surveyed the kids, the best they will probably come up with is the Goodyear Blimp.

Or the Snoopy Blimp !

My wife would give that answer! She's a huge Snoopy/Woodstock fan!

By the way, that Zep is the Hindenburg, issed for it's North American Tour in 1936!

Good history tidbit, warrehouse!

Just to clarify, warrehouse is referring to Tina's pic of the German stamp, not the cover shown by nr-notrare.

k

Here is a nice simple site that gives some more interesting info on both the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin.

http://www.airships.net/

so are you saying its a keeper?

Tina,

The Zeppelin stamp you showed is Germany #C57(16Mar1936) in the Scott catalog. While it's not a super-common stamp, it is also not uncommon, and the 2007 edition prices the used stamp at 50c (higher than the Scott catalog minimum of 20c). Most of that extra catalog value is because it is a topical.

You cropped your pic, so I can't see the perfs. But assuming the perfs are fine, it looks like a nice clean copy (possibly favor-canceled or something similar). It's probably better than my used copy; I haven't touched my pre-WWII German stamps in quite a while so I don't remember what mine looks like.

Catalog value aside, I'd say it's a keeper.

k

The stamp could be used as "regular" postage as well. So if it is cancelled, it doesn't automatically mean that the stamp travelled on the LZ129 to North America. It could have very well been used on any regular "inland" sending too.

You should check the watermark, if you can. The watermark on this one should be the swastikas - but there are some stamps with faulty watermarks, where the swastikas were flipped (arms going to the right).

The normal issue has a value of 1,- Euro in Michel catalog, if you have the one with the flipped watermark, it's 3,50 Euro.

If it IS flipped, it's an absolute keeper.
If not, I myself would replace it, if I found one with a better (readable) cancel. Until then: keep it

Khj is right about the zepp on my cover......it is the D-LZ127.

...better known (to us who like to stay on the ground) as the Graf Zeppelin (also mentioned on that cover, which is a very very nice cover).
k

Great Airship website, khj.
I added it to my bookmarks.
KirkS

Nice stamp, Tina! Of course, "Deutsche Luftpost" means German airmail. I like the stamp. It is a keeper, if not super expensive!