Hindenburg Crash Cover

SCDHunter

Two fragments of this cover were submitted to the Post Office Department for authentication in 1940, less than three years after the disaster.

The Post Office Department could not determine if it was real.

What’s your opinion?

WoodenJefferson

With at least 10 trans-Atlantic flights between Germany and the US, it would be almost impossible to link this cover to that specific fateful day. This could very well have been authentic or a previous date that someone intentionally burnt and extingushed to increase it's historic value. Clever to have burnt the post mark if spurious.

Never the less, this still is a nice item authenticated or not.

Note: There are many, many covers surviving, the airship was built specifically for passengers & mail.

SCDHunter

<< <i>With at least 10 trans-Atlantic flights between Germany and the US, it would be almost impossible to link this cover to that specific fateful day. This could very well have been authentic or a previous date that someone intentionally burnt and extingushed to increase it's historic value. Clever to have burnt the post mark if spurious.

Never the less, this still is a nice item authenticated or not.

Note: There are many, many covers surviving, the airship was built specifically for passengers & mail. >>



You are absolutely right. I am convinced that this is an early attempt to fake a crash cover, using a real one from a previous flight.

hhmag70

This would be a vintage scam.