K12405 [Space Collection: Document] [Austria: Balloon]

1970, Salzburg Centennial Balloon Flight (No. 56/70). A small folded lettersheet reproducing an 1870 Letter-Journal from the Siege of Paris (the first use of balloons to carry the mails). There is a small blue "1870 Neptune Raiffeisen 1970 Bordstempel" handstamp on the face as well as a red "Republic Francaise seal on the reverse.  FLOWN

 

K12436 [Space Collection: Photograph] [Canada: Balloon: Misc.]

1930, “R-100” Original Press Photo (6.5x8.5”) A sepia photo with a photo credit on the reverse that reads: “R100s Triumphal Return to Cardington – from her wonderful double cross a Atlantic flight and back . . .” Note the “Photos via, Ile de France, Catapult” notation on the credit slip.

 

K12974 [Space Collection] [US: Balloon]

1936 US Army Air Corps ‘Stratosphere Flight of 1935 in the Balloon ‘Explorer II’

(National Geographic – Stratosphere Series No. 2, 1936, 277pp., soft).

 

 

Balloon: Flown

 

K13106 [Space Collection] [US: Balloon: Flown]

1973, "World Hot Air Balloon Races" Flown Cover.  A flown event cover, official aerogramme with First Day Albuquerque, New Mexico cancel dated Feb. 10, 1973 and a rubber stamp certificate No. 14/17 flown aboard "Star of Texas" on February 17, 1973. Signed by pilot Karl Stefan and co-pilot Vera Simon.

 

K12975 [Space Collection] [US: Balloon: Flown]

1977 Flown ‘Atmosat’ Balloon Mail.  This cover has a double, black printed cachet (showing pilot Tom Heinsheimer and a co-pilot).  It shows an unfranked Jun 16/ 1 St. FSSG Unit launch cancel in the center (a ship cancel, possibly they were out of stamps) as well as a Sep 6, Long Beach, CA magenta hand cancel for a second launch at the top right.  Atmostat was a research program dating observations from a stable pressure altitude over several hours/days, hence the use of a super pressure balloon.  

 

A Flown "International Balloon Fiesta" Cover.  A Flown event cover printed dark blue with pictorial Albuquerque, New Mexico cancel dated Oct. 3-11, 1981and a red rubber stamp confirmation "Carried by Balloon" and an unusual Colorado Local Post cancel on Balloon Mail stamp dated Oct. 11, 1981. Signed by pilot J. Schwenn.

 

 

Balloon: Literature

 

12 Books on Rockets and Space on space including 1952, "Rocket Propulsion" by Eric Burgess (235pp., hard with dust jacket), 1956, "Frontier to Space" by Eric Burgess (174pp., hard with dust jacket), 1954, "Rockets and Missiles: Past and Future" by Martin Caidin (208pp., hard with dust jacket), 1951, "The Exploration of Space" by Arthur C. Clarke (199pp., hard with dust jacket), 1953, "Flight into Space" by Jonathan Leonard (245pp., hard with dust jacket), 1954, "Man, Rockets and Space" by Burr Leyson (188pp., hard with dust jacket), 1956, Men, Rockets and Space" by Lloyd Mallan (303pp., shard with dust jacket), 1951, "Space Medicine" (83pp., soft cover), 1955, "Earth Satellite" by Patrick Moore (128pp., hard cover with dust jacket), 1954, "Space Ships and Space Travel" by Frank Ross, Jr. (166pp., hard cover with dust jacket), 1954, "The Prentice-Hall Book About Space Travel" by William Temple (142pp., hard cover with dust jacket) and 1953, "The Adventure of Space Travel" by G.V.E. Thompson (253pp., hard cover with dust jacket).

 

 

K12434 [Space Collection: Photograph] [Germany: Balloon: Zeppelin]

1932, German Cigarette Card Album, Vol. I.  A album containing 265 different small black and white photos of different zeppelins and their world flights.  Included is the album’s original cardboard dust jacket.

 

K12435 [Space Collection: Photograph] [Germany: Balloon: Zeppelin]

1932, German Cigarette Card Album, Vol.  II.  An album containing 156 different small black and white photos of the Graf Zeppelin’s world flight.

 

K12579 [Space Collection: Toy] [Germany: Balloon: Zeppelin]

Zeppelin Tobacco Cards Fantastic collection of around 280 vintage Zeppelin tobacco cards mounted in a 50-page information album (written in German), which provides facts and information on various airships and routes.