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Final note : A collection of Danzig Zeppelin mail should not just be restricted to Zeppelin mail from Danzig. that is to say items franked with Danzig postage stamps, but should also include suitable mail to Danzig from abroad. This is indeed relatively scarcer than that from Danzig. There is always exceptional interest at the dispersal of a collection when a cover from the return flight of a particular flight to South America for example is included. Even suitable “on board” mail can find its rightful place in a Danzig collection. There are even such pieces, although in very much scarcer numbers as sendings from Danzig. One can even occasionally come across unseparated message and reply postcards which, although strictly it was against regulations to leave them unseparated. nevertheless display a perfectly proper mixed franking between the stamp imprint and the requisite airmail fee of the foreign country.

Danzig Zeppelin mail is certainly a specialised field. It can be built up into a subject very much worth displaying. But one has to exercise great patience as letters and postcards are hardly as plentiful as the sand and the sea.

2. Danzig and Catapult mail from the Steamers ‘Bremen” and “Europa”

By the following provision of the appropriate decree Danzig participated in the series of Treaty States catapult mail just as it had already done before as one of the Zeppelin mail Treaty States.

“Post and Telegraph Administration of                                                       Danzig, 31 August 1929
The Free State of Danzig”
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To the Post Offices in The Free State Danzig.

Ref.: Air and Sea mail forwarding to America by the Steamer “Bremen”.

By which on the 4 September the following flights will connect with the beginning of the third passage to America of the “Norddeutschen Lloyd” Steamer “Bremen”

1) Feeder flight from Cologne to Cherbourg (place of departure of the Steamer) from Cologne on 5 Sept. at 10.00.
2) Flight by a catapulted aeroplane from the Steamer “Bremen” to New York. The flight will be initiated some 400-500 km before reaching the American coast.

Both flights can carry mail originating from the Free State Danzig. Permitted are ordinary mail items of any kind for the United States of America and for countries beyond, via the United States. The main conditions are contained in the following table :

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 64 - July - August - September - 1989, Page 21.