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ORIGINAL!RARE! GRAF ZEPPELIN CAPTAIN HANS von SCHILLER AUTOGRAPH INSCRIBED LITHO PORTRAIT
VERY RARE! GRAF ZEPPELIN CAPTAIN * HANS von SCHILLER AUTOGRAPH INSCRIBED LITHO PORTRAIT
GRAF ZEPPELIN'S CAPTAIN HANS von SCHILLER WITH A LARGE ** GRAF ZEPPELIN MODEL ABOVE HIM DURING HIS LATER YEARS.
AUTOGRAPH INSCRIBED WITH HIS SIGNATURE TO AN AMERICAN ADMIRER / RESEARCHER ON THE LOWER FRONT MARGIN:
To Mr.Bud Miller Christmas 1974
Hans v. Schiller
Tüllingen (Germany)1974
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE.
DIMENSIONS: 4 1/8" x 5 3/4"
MEDIUM WEIGHT GLOSSY PAPER.
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THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION.
* Hans von Schiller (b.1891-d.1976) served in the 1st World War as a security officer and later commander of Zeppelin airships. After the war he made a career to become a world pioneer in international air travel. Captain Schiller was the longest acting Zeppelin crew member, serving in various Zeppelins for over 20 years from 1917 to 1939. He was on board ** LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin for flights to the Arctic and around the world. He captained in USA and South America. He was on the 3 test flights of the *** LZ-129 Hindenburg and was on board on the first trip for the year 1937 to Rio Frankfurt (16.-20.-3-37) and back to Frankfurt (23.-27.-3-37). Then he was given the command of the LZ-130 (Graf Zeppelin II) in the fall of 1938.
** LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated from 1928 to the most successful airship ever built.
*** LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest by envelope volume. The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt at its mooring mast atLakehurstNaval Air Station, on board were 97 people; there were 36 fatalities.
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