Over the years, along with collecting my library of books relating to lighter-than-air ships, I've also collected a few other items of interest on the same topic. In my collection I have a few airship posters, a couple of tin toys, a coat/hat pin, and my most treasured item: an actual piece of mail postmarked on the Hindenburg during her first commercial flight. Well, it's actually just the envelope. The letter was from a Mr. Frederich Nichol of New York, to Mr. Karl Hummel of Berlin. The New York post mark is May 11, 1936, and it was stamped in Berlin a few days later on the 14th.
The envelope has a very large rubber stamp mark on the front showing the Lakehurst, Hindenburg, Trans-Atlantic, and First Flight. On the back there is a German stamp mark showing the Hindenburg again, and the words: Mit Luftschiff, Hindenburg Befordert.
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