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Fiorenzo Longhi
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO
DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA - COLONIE ITALIANE SAN MARINO - VATICANO - 1929-1939
con aggiornamento quotazioni 2017 e nuovi inserimenti
CATALOGUE OF ZEPPELIN MAIL OF ITALY - ITALIAN COLONIES
SAN MARINO - VATICAN CITY - 1929-1939
with quotes updating 2017 and new insertions

VII+281 pp. - 863 colour and b/w ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - hardbound - printed 2009
series "Handies"
Italian and English text
by Paolo Moretti FREE THE UPDATE 2017
40 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2016

ISBN: 978-88-96381-02-1
Chronological history of Zeppelin mail of the Italian area flown on Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II airships, including rates.

This catalogue deals, in great detail, with Zeppelin mail of Italy, Italian colonies, San Marino and Vatican from 1929 to 1939. This list only refers to flown items for which it has been possible to assess their existence. Other mails, whose existence has not been verified yet, although mentioned in other sources, have been omitted. Items which are not genuine or fakes have been frequently mentioned, instead.
In this catalogue Zeppelin airmail stamps have been excluded, as they have already been described in philatelic catalogues.

The recording, given in chronological order, enables to trace a catalogued Zeppelin mail simply by referring to the page related to the airship's name, the year and, thus, the flight number, from which month and day of that particular flight are evident.
The flights numbering used in this work is that reported in the official original records of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin / Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei. The use of this numbering avoids arbitrary misleading information, instead providing a reference form among collectors, dealers and aviation historians.

Dieter Leder: "Zeppelin mail experts and sophisticated collectors worked together and shared their knowledge, information and covers to make this catalogue the most comprehensive data base for Zeppelin mail from Italy and its connected areas."

CONTENTS

* Preface by Dieter Leder
* Prefazione by Romano Savini
* Introduction by Fiorenzo Longhi
* Flight numbering used in the catalogue
* Postmarks or special cachets abbreviations
* Mixed franking and re-mailings
* Airship LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" (Orient flight, Mediterranean flight, North America flights, flight to Darmstadt, to Dortmund, to Russia, Baltic sea flight, Vogtland flight, Holland flight, Hungary flight, Egypt flight, flight to Pomerania, landing flight to Nuremberg, Baltic sea circuit, landing flight to Magdeburg, Liechtenstein flight, flight to Hanover, Swabia flight, Iceland flight, Upper Silesia flight, Polar flight, South America flights, Switzerland flight, flight to England)
* Italy flight (Friedrichshafen-Rome, round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - Some preliminary information about Italy flight - Postmarks and special cachets of the Italian flight - Postmarks and special cachets of the Italian flight and of the 2nd S.A.F. - Some preliminary information about the "on board mail" of Italy flight
* Malta (return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - A few considerations on the Barcelona mail drop
* Cyrenaica (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Aegean Islands (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Greece (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - Mail with insufficient franking
* Italy (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* San Marino (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Tripolitania (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Vatican City (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen, South America flights, flight to the Saargebiet)
* German standard flight cachets used on flights to South America from 1934 to 1936
* Shuttle flights
* Airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg"
* German standard flight cachets used on flights to North America in 1936
* Airship LZ 130 "Graf Zeppelin II" (flight to the Sudetenland, to Görlitz, to Bielefeld, to Kassel, to Würzburg, to Eger, to Essen-Mülheim, to Königsberg)
* Italy - Postage rates
* Zeppelin airmail surcharge
* Vatican City - Postage rates to Italy

Bibliography
Picture credits
Fiorenzo Longhi was born in Milan in 1938 and lives by Lake Maggiore.
After obtaining the scientific A levels, he graduates in Economics and Business at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in 1966 and works as director in an engineering company for twenty years.
Since his childhood, he cultivates the hobby of philately and history, and afterwards he passes to the study of postal history in little known fields such as the first issues of the Ottoman Empire and of Ecuador, Italian air mail and the flights of Italian pilots abroad, creating, in the course of years, some important collections and one of the most complete libraries of philately, postal history and aeronautic history.
He is awarded the maximum rewards in the National and World competitive philatelic exhibitions (6 Large Gold Medals and numerous Grand Prix from 1976 to 1978).
Since 1979, he exhibits only in the Honour Class or upon invitation in National and International exhibitions.
He publishes numerous articles, chapters in specialized books, one book and two catalogues, always dealing with little known or unreleased subjects relevant to postal history and aeronautic history.
He is enrolled in the National Register of Philatelic Jury Members since 1982 and he is an International Philatelic Jury Member.
He is enrolled in the Golden Register of Italian Philately since 1979; since 1995, in the Register of Expert Witnesses of the Court in Verbania for Philately; since 1996, in the Philately Category, in the Expert Role of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture in Verbano Cusio Ossola.
He is Life Member of the American Air Mail Society and member of the following Italian and foreign associations: A.I.E.P. International Association of Philatelic Experts (Italy, Air Mail - Ecuador, Air Mail); A.P.F.I.P Associazione Periti Filatelici Italiani Professionisti; Borsa Filatelica Nazionale; Federazione fra le Società Filateliche Italiane; Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia Postale; Istituto di Studi Storici Postali; Unione Filatelica Lombarda; A.I.S.P. Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale; A.I.D.A. Associazione Italiana di Aerofilatelia; A.I.C.P.M. Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare; Schweizerischer Aerophilatelisten-Verein; Cercle Aérophilatélique Français; British Air Mail Society; Nido delle Aquile Museo dell'Aria.
GEORGE D.KINGDOM LITERATURE AWARD 2011 - AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY

ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2010

GOLD - ROSSICA 2016
20-22 maggio 2016

GOLD - IPHLA 2012
Mainz, 2-4 novembre 2012

GOLD - AEROMFILA 2011
Bucarest 23-26 giugno 2011

GOLD - NEW ZEALAND LIT. EXHIB. 2011
19 marzo 2011
(Palmerston North - New Zealand)

LARGE VERMEIL - LONDON 2010 - Festival of Stamps
Londra, 8-15 maggio 2010

SILVER - CHICAGOPEX 2010
19-21 novembre 2010
(Arlington Heights, IL, USA)
Cod. 2225EA
EUR 15,00


Paolo Moretti
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO
DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA - COLONIE ITALIANE
SAN MARINO - VATICANO - 1929-1939
AGGIORNAMENTO QUOTAZIONI 2017 E NUOVI INSERIMENTI

40 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2016
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text with introduction in English

CATALOGUE OF ZEPPELIN MAIL OF ITALY
ITALIAN COLONIES - SAN MARINO - VATICAN CITY - 1929-1939
QUOTES UPDADING 2017 AND NEW INSERTIONS

The present pricelist comes alongside with the work of the Author and intends to be a complementary part of it, giving the quotations of the aerogramme listed in the catalogue. Evaluations are expressed in euro and refer to the boxed numbers quoted in the catalogue.

The point of reference used to evaluate every single aerogramme is the quantity known up to now.
Besides evaluations refer to items of good quality, with well legible cancellations, and take into consideration only the importance of the flight made by the airship they refer to.

An additional value added is represented by the autographs of one or more crew members or by the passengers' aboard mail.

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