Not that anubody would remember the date but in May of 1937 Im sure you all would remember the Airship Hindenburg blowing up while landing in Lakehurst NJ after a Trans-Atlantic flight. Most of us have seen the film strip of it happening and the news caster trying to keep from crying. That day was a bad day for familys who lost loved ones but in the Tribune Famous Front Pages on that date with pictures of the Hindenburg engulfed in flames there a a story closer to home below that I dont think was mentioned. Title was Fears Stamps Lost in Fire. A Warren man believed Round the World Air Cachets on ship Hindenburg. These were called Event Covers here is a paragraph to explain what they are or were. Event covers are a type of stamp covers (decorated, stamped and canceled commemorative envelopes) that are created to celebrate an event or note an anniversary. (The design (called a cachet) is generally placed on the left side of the envelope (although there are also all over cachets). It explains what is being commemorated on what date, and generally also includes an illustration page. Ideally, the stamps used relate to the celebration (for instance, space stamps for a shuttle launch). Cancels are either obtained in the city of the event (such as Kitty Hawk for the Wright Brothers first flight anniversary) or, for larger quantities of envelopes, from a special cancellation unit maintained by the Postal Service in Kansas City, Missouri. If a special cancellation (one with a design) has been created for the event, you can generally only receive that cancel from the local post office.) Cont with article... Valuable covers with stamps on the last leg of a round the world flight which began on the China Clipper from San Francisco, were believed destroyed when the Zeppelin Hindenburg exploded. Some of these covers were being sent to Bruce McIntyre, president of the Warren Stamp Club and were numbered with hundreds of others for stamp and cover collectors who had them sent on the first around-the-world flight for mail by air. The covers left Warren by air-mail for San Francisco from there went by clipper ship on the first air trip to Hong Kong, China, the ship touching ports at Hawaii, Guam, Manila, Macco and then Hong Kong. Later they were taken by air mail to Friedrichshafen and Frankfort at the latter place being autographed by the postmaster there. A group of Warren residents have covers from the experimental flight of the Von Hindenburg L Z 129. mailed from Friedrichshafen Germany. March 23, 1936 with a cachet applied by the Nazi government Mit Ludtschiff L Z 129, Befordert in oval red cancellation. Owners of these covers in Warren include McIntyre, Harvey, Burgess, Dr P N Mutschmann, R G Walker, Frank T Moran Clare Porter. My husband collected event covers, they were interesting but you have to be dedicated to this hobby and get them postmarked on the first day of issue which makes them worth more I guess. I cant begin to imagine how upset those people were if they did loose their covers that had gone through a lot of places and hands before coming back to them. What a loss. I did look up the lost mail and this is what I found. The Ohio mail was for a man in Wooster Ohio most of which were badly burned. The 147 covers addressed to persons in the U.S.A. were forwarded to the Foreign Airmail Division in New York who sent the items to the addressees Postmaster with a request to secure a registered receipt. Sorry for going on but I get lost in reading old papers and I found this interesting.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:35:08 +0000
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