PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS
(1938)

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ZEPPELINPOST AUSSTELLUNG
(8th/12th Jul 1938)

BACKGROUND: This postcard was published by Gebr. Metz, Tübingen to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Graf von Zeppelin, from a portrait by Emerich. The card also commemorates the Zeppelin Post Exhibition sponsored by the Konstanz Postage Stamp Collectors' Club, the city of Zeppelin's birth.

There are at least four versions of this card:

PP127-C-42: four lines of text and 6Rpf Hindenburg pre-printed stamp.
PP144-C-1: Like PP127-C-42 but with 15Rpf Luftpost stamp.
No Stamp: Like the cards above but without a pre-printed stamp
Two Lines: Now with only two lines of text and no pre-printed stamp.

ABOVE LEFT: 4 LINES OF TEXT
ABOVE LEFT: 2 LINES OF TEXT

SONDERSTEMPEL:

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PP127-C-42
6 Rpf HINDENBURG MEDALLION

This card features a pre-printed 6 Rpf Hindenburg Medallion stamp and was intended for domestic usage. On the reverse of this card, on the top left-hand side, as well as on PP144-C-1 below, there is an inscription "Zeppelinpost-Austellung | Veranstaltet vom | Breifmarkensammler-Verein Konstanz | im Reichsbund der Philatelisten" and the logo of the R.d.P. There is a second inscription on the bottom edge that reads "Druck von R.Oldenburg, Munchen | Nach farbigen Original von Emerich".

ABOVE: PP127-C-42 - 6Rpf HINDENBURG

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PP144-C-1
15 Rpf LUFTPOST

This card features a pre-printed 15 Rpf Luftpost stamp and was intended for international mail.

ABOVE: PP144-C-1 - 15Rpf LUFTPOST

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NO PRE-PRINTED STAMP
FOUR LINES OF TEXT

This card does not have a pre-printed stamp, neither does it have the inscription "Zeppelinpost-Austellung | Veranstaltet vom | Breifmarkensammler-Verein Konstanz | im Reichsbund der Philatelisten" and the logo of the R.d.P. on the reverse side of the card.

There is another version of this card that has the same four lines of text and no pre-printed stamp like the card above, only now it also has the "Zeppelinpost-Ausstellung | Veranstaltet vom | Briefmarkensammler-Verein Konstanz | im Reichsbund der Philatelisten" text.

NO PRE-PRINTED STAMP
TWO LINES OF TEXT

Like the card above, this card does not have a pre-printed stamp, neither does it have the inscription "Zeppelinpost-Austellung | Veranstaltet vom | Breifmarkensammler-Verein Konstanz | im Reichsbund der Philatelisten" and the logo of the R.d.P. on the reverse side of the card. It also has fewer lines of text on the front of the card. The original inscription "ZEPPELINPOST-AUSSTELLUNG | anlaβlich des 100. Geburtstages des Grafen Zeppelin | vom 8. bis 12. Juli 1938 in seinem Geburtsort | KONSTANZ a. Bodensee" has been replaced by "GRAF VON ZEPPELIN | ALS GENERAL DER KAVALLERIE".