Auction 102
June Militaria & Autograph Auction
Jun 17, 2021
PO Box 85, Elk Mills, MD 21920, United States
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Join us for our June historical militaria and autograph auction featuring 581 lots of WWII memorabilia, autographs, and Americana.
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LOT 340:
GRAF VON ZEPPELIN'S FAMOUS RECONNAISSANCE RIDE
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GRAF VON ZEPPELIN'S FAMOUS RECONNAISSANCE RIDE
A booklet titled 'GRAF ZEPPELINS BERUEHMTER REKOGNOSZIERUNGS-RITT 1870' ('Count Zeppelins Famous Reconnaissance Ride 1870') 5 x 7.5 inches, 40 pages, Germania Publishing House, Bamberg, 1909. The booklet contains twelve black-and-white full page images and conveys the story of a German staff officer Ferdinand Adolf Graf von Zeppelin (1838-1917), adjutant of the King of Wuerttemberg, who carried out a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines near Schirlenhof (Gundershoffen, France), narrowly avoiding capture, during the Franco-Prussian War.
