BenFranklin1902's nice Zeppelin Covers um, covered the later legs of the First Pan-American flight of Graf Zeppelin, in the spring of 1930.
The bridge:
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From Wikipedia:
"The 1930 Pan-American Flight...originated in Friedrichshafen on 18 May and stopped first in Seville before leaving Europe. The Graf Zeppelin arrived in Brazil first at Recife (Pernambuco) docking at Campo do Jiquiá on 22 May where it was greeted by a crowd of more than 15,000 before preceding on to Rio de Janeiro. The airship then flew back north to Lakehurst, NJ, before heading east over the Atlantic on 2 June to return to Germany with another stop in Seville."
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Here are a couple of covers from my collection from the first legs of this voyage. The first is a postcard, with the 2RM rate:
Postmarked May 18, 1930, the scheduled departure from Friedrichshafen, with a receiver of May 25, in Rio. (The reverse contains no postal markings but is a manuscript message, dated May 9, I think.)
Now, here's the 4RM rate, for a letter:
I like this cover because it is, apparently, a commercial cover rather than a philatelic cover. And, the REALLY neat thing about it is that it is a virtual twin to the postcard above. Both were cancelled the SAME HOUR in Friedrichshafen, and received identical receiver cancels, in Rio. It cannot be refuted that both items were cancelled by the same clerk, at both ends of the voyage!
Both items bear stamps with the SUDAMERIKA FAHRT overprint, again contributing to their pair status.
For all I know, the two items could have laid against one another in the same mailbag as the airship placidly droned its way across the Atlantic...
