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Hindenburg Grouping

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LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the largest flying machines of any kind ever built. The airship flew from March 1936 until destroyed by fire 14 months later at the end of the first transatlantic journey of its second season of service. Thirty-six people died in the accident, which occurred while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey. The event was widely reported by film, photography and radio media.^tNice group of Hindenburg and Zeppelin air-mail broadsides and letters includes; broadside "Demonstration Flights of the New Airship 'Hindenburg' to the United States", 8-1/2" x 16" inches, August 1, 1936, and provides the US postal rates for mail carried on the Hindenburg...plus; Typed Letter Signed, issued by the US Post Office, two page, May 29, 1936, pertaining to US postage for air-mail carried on the dirigible Hindenburg...plus; broadside 5" x 10-1/2" inches entitled "Graf Zeppelin Europe-Pan America Round Flight", April 24, 1930, issued by the second assistant Post Master General...plus; Typed Letter pertaining to Zeppelin mail carried aboard the airship Hindenburg, May 5, 1936...plus; broadside "Extension of Trans-Pacific Air Mail Service-reduction of Air-Mail For Route-First Flight Covers", 9-1/2" x 16", March 8, 1937...plus; broadside "Graf Zeppelin Air Mail Stamps", 4-1/2" x 20" inches, April 3, 1930, pertaining to three special Zeppelin air-mail stamps, 65 cent, $1.30, and $2.60 denominations...plus; two other letters all Very Good or better.^t

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