Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 691

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ZEPPELINS.) "Graf Zeppelin" (LZ 130). Deutsche Luftschiffahrt. Unusual memorial copy of an otherwise common cigarette card album, containing in addition to the standard 150 mounted cards: interleaving throughout with an English translation of the German text, and a bound in signature leaf with over 40 signatures of the airship crew and associated members, including Commander Max Pruss, Chief Steward Heinrich Kubis, Adolf Fischer (crew member and survivor of the "Hindenburg" crash), and others. Oblong 4to, specially bound in gilt-stamped turquoise morocco at a later date; few minor internal faults; original wrappers bound in. Commemorating a July 1939 voyage

Additional Details

The first card in the album is a portrait of Adolf Hitler. His portrait was replaced in later copies.