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Flown 5.5 x 3.5 postcard advertising Veedol oil, featuring an image of the ill-fated Zeppelin on the front, with an inset block of text: "On Board the Hindenburg. This card was carried on the Hindenburg on its initial flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N. J. It is mailed to you with the compliments of the Tide Water Oil Company, whose product was selected to lubricate the giant ship." The reverse bears an affixed German 50-pfennig airmail stamp postmarked at Hamburg, April 25, 1936, with an American cancellation to the lower right at New York, May 9, 1936. In fine condition, with trivial edgewear. The Hindenburg left from Frankfurt on May 6, 1936—exactly one year prior to the disaster—and landed in Lakehurst on May 9, the day of this New York postal cancellation.
