Antwort auf: LZ127 in Sevilla 1930

Dear Alfred and Klaus,

I think I have a way to make an estimate of the Spanish stamps used, related to your question about the Vaquer high values being short at one stage, and replaced by the Aereo overprints of 1920. In order to make a reasonable estimate, however, I need to know the distribution of the around 31.000 Meister pieces over Friedrichshafen, Sevilla and Rio, since the Meister ones to Lakehurst cost 20 and 10 pesetas instead of 16 and 8 when posted in Spain itself. What I seem to have read is that 9.698 pieces (6.494 letters+3.204 cards) went on board in Sevilla, and among them quite a few from Meister I guess. Part of these must have been without stamps, and got Spanish ones there, I assume at the post office. Schier has made copies of around 235 of these, on which I have based some calculations, but there must have been (many?) more. Do we know:

–       the distribution of the 31.000 (?) Meister pieces over Friedrichshafen, Sevilla and Rio?

–       an estimate of the Meister mail with and without stamps?

The point is that the Meister to Lakehurst tariff was 20 pts and 10 pts rather than the 16 pts and 8 pts in Spain itself, so this has some influence on the types (1, 4, 10 pts) of stamps and their numbers.

Best,

Dik