Golden Oak Online Auctions LLC

Auction 76

Lot 800

Airmail, 1930, $1.30 Graf Zeppelin, on FDC (Scott C14), tied by an April 19 Washington D.C. First Day cancel on an airmail envelope to Frederick Hobarth (comptroller of the Miranda Sugar Fields), Miranda, Orienta, Cuba; flown on Zeppelin's return voyage, Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, with all appropriate markings including corrected type I U.S. flight cachet; backstamped Miranda on June 21. Scott $900+.
Estimate $600 - 800

The intended Havana mail drop had to be canceled due to poor weather. As a result, Cuban mail was off-loaded in Lakehurst and sent on to Cuba. However, printed routing instructions on this cover indicate that it was intended for Lakehurst anyway.

Realized $400

Prior Lot

Next Lot

Current Chapter

Table of Contents