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Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
German engineer (1838–1917) who designed the famous rigid airship that bears his name. Alarmingly humble ALS in German, signed “Graf von Zeppelin,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, Girsberg bei Emmishofen letterhead, September 1893. Zeppelin writes Dr. Gottfried Deckler. In part (translated): “To my regret, I cannot…provide you with a page for your album because my simple execution of the mission confided to me at the beginning of the war in 1870 doesn’t give me the right to occupy a position alongside those men who performed really great deeds.” Zeppelin studied French balloons during the Franco-Prussian War. In fine condition with Deckler’s collector’s stamp on the reverse of an adjacent page. Accompanied by an 11.25 x 8.25 polychrome postcard showing an airship flying over a picturesque town and an enthusiastic crowd.