Antwort auf: Mischfrankaturen der Zeppelinpost

Dear Mischfrankaturistas,

The prefinal piece I want to share with you here has puzzled me for some time, but I have the following scenario. See both Anhänge.

Cuban businessman and stamp collector mr Maciá was in Europe in early May 1930, doing business from his hotel in Carlsbad (Chec). He had learned about the SAF when still at home and made himself the envelop in Anh.1. He managed to get it on board on 18 May, with the intention that it would be dropped off in Brazil (the 4RM)  and then sent to Habana by airmail (whence the Cuban airmail stamp) or dropped off in Cuba (but why the stamp then?). The board post office had no clue what to do with this, and kept it until Sevilla, where it got a board cancel (4th June) and then the 5th June Sevilla cancel. From there it probably was returned to Cuba. There is a vague fragment of a cancel on both stamps which seems to be neither a Sevilla nor Habana cancel that I am familiar with.

This is my guess, but I am completely open to any better explanation, including it being a complete fake, in which case I have lost some €€ (I was the only bidder if I remember well) and an illusion, but then it was a nice fantasy as long as it lasted.

And Alfred, following your suggestion I have put an extra plastic cover around the Knorr card; I just read a story about him being one of the victims of the Hindenburg disaster of May 1937, helas.

Mit herzliche Grüße,

Dik