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Postal Marking & Cancels

Markings & Cancels:

Cancels et al:

In this section, we'll gather every cancel together that either appears on the front or the reverse of any cover we get our hands on, including scans. The list is sorted by country, which means, as an example of some special cases:

USA: Here we start with the Lakehurst/New York green Zeppelin cancels and then include the cancels of any all cities, towns and possessions that have shown up on covers.

Brazil: Here the accent is mainly on the Condor Company cancels used, as well a few Brazilian P.O. versions often seen too.

Germany: This section starts with the Friedrichshafen cancels used as arrival cancels. Also, like in the USA case, some airmail routing along with city/town cancels that have appeared on covers.

Then follows the “rest of the world”, that ranges from Havana to Czechoslovakia.

Meters:

Generally, covers franked with meters are considered commercial, yet in 1930 meters were, in some countries, not yet allowed as postage on Zeppelin covers. But Brazil is different, in that, meters often replaced the usual Brazilian Post Office stamps in everyday life. The Post Offices themselves used meters in lieu of stamps, the situation is described in this contribution.

von Meister Numbers:

A non-trivial amount of covers on this flight carry a row of 5 black digits that are often confused with postal registry numbers. This has even led to an example of a cover being “modified” to mimic an actual postal registration form. This contribution reviews the use and extent of these “vM#”.

“Registrado”:

A whole group of covers, though franked with Brazilian postage, seem to have as an origin an Argentinian dealer and his like from Chile, all carrying the same basic rubber “registrado” stamp. Yet this covers were not registered. This contribution gives the details that one can recognize covers coming from this source.

BoB – Air Mail Stickers/Etiquettes et al.:

A look at the the air mail stickers used on this flight by a variety of countries. In the Brazilian case, an “enhancement” has already been seen with a sticker on the cover that first existed in 1933!