Lot 09149

2.9.1929. “GRAF ZEPPELIN” Airship real photo PPC (with an inset picture of Dr. Hugo Eckener), posted on 2.9.1929 from Ocean Grove, N.J., USA, Philadelphia. Manuscript text on back reads: “Just saw the Graff at Lakehurst”. Hugo Eckener was a German aeronautical engineer and airship pilot who commanded the Graf Zeppelin on its around-the-world flight in 1929 (left Friedrichshafen on 1.8.29, arr. at New York on 5.8.29). Very Rare!