Image: Zeppelin stamp, 50c, 1933 issue

Description: Century of Progress U.S. Airmail stamp In 1933 the German airship company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin G.m.b.H (Zeppelin Company) agreed to fly the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin to Chicago if the U.S. Post Office Department would issue a special postage stamp to help defray the enormous costs of the flight. On August 18 postal authorities agreed to issue a 50-cent zeppelin airmail stamp, 42½ cents of which would help offset the Zeppelin Company's expenses. The 50 cent stamp was designed by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr., which depicts the Graf Zeppelin air ship sailing over the Atlantic Ocean, to its destination of the Chicago World’s Fair.[1] Source ↑ Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 50-cent Century of Progress Issue
Title: Zeppelin stamp, 50c, 1933 issue
Credit: U.S. Post Office
Author: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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