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Event Cover – Zeppex Station, Brookfield, Illinois 1975
Zeppex Sta
Brookfield, IL 60513
Sep 18, 1975

Pictorial special event handstamp cancel, red ink.
U.S. Navy USS Los Angeles, German Zeppelin ZR-3 is pictured.
1925 Los Angeles Mail Flights to Bermuda and Puerto Rico
Contains three Zeppelin Collectors Club and Jack Knight Collectors Club original flyer sheets. These were inserted by the Zeppelin Collectors Club during servicing of the special event cover. They were kept with the original cover. See description of the sheets below.

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Stamp is a USA Scott # 1575, 10¢, Satellite for Transmission of Mailgrams, U.S. Postal Service Bicentennial Issue, 200 Years of Postal Service, issued September 3, 1975, as one of four stamps. Stagecoach and Trailer Truck, Old and New Locomotives, Early Mail Plane and Jet, and Satellite for Transmission of Mailgrams.

This event cover has a blue ink pen address (front side, lower left corner) and no return address. I personally obtained this event cover 40 years ago and have been the only owner.

Information on the three sheets folded inside the envelope:
The following information is from original sheets that were mailed back with a special event cover from Brookfield, Illinois, September 18, 1975, Zeppex Station 60513, 1925 Los Angeles, Mail Flights to Bermuda and Puerto Rico. The sheets appear to be photocopies or memographed sheets. They were folded up into the envelope and are as received back in 1975. There are three sheets, total of six pages. Pages are loose, just folded up together.

The Zeppelin Collectors Club Advance Bulletin #49-3/75
October – December 1975
This club was one of the member clubs of the Jack Knight Collectors Federation that published the quarterly Jack Knight Air Log.
150^th Anniversary of the loss of the Shenandoah, U.S. Navy Dirigible ZR-1. It crashed over Noble County, September 3, 1925, near Ava, Ohio.
Bulletin lists a set of canceled, cacheted covers prepared by Bob Ramsey, offered to the club to sell for its profit.
Included were Sharon, Ohio, September 3; Lakehurst, NJ, September 2; Ava, Ohio, September 3.
Notice of special ZEPPEX 1975 cancellation for Brookfield, Illinois, September 18, 1975. Commerating the USS Los Angeles, German Zeppelin ZR-3, that flew mail flights to Bermuda and Puerto Rico. One sheet shows three covers that were expected to be offered connected with this special cancellation.

One sheet has the covers available through the club. Also lists all the clubs in the Jack Knight Collectors Club Federation. They were: Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Rocket Mail Society, Local Post Collectors Club, Mexican Airmail Collectors Club, Canadian Airmail Collectors Club, Pan American Collectors Club, Airmail Booklet Pane Society, Aeronautica and Air Label Collectors Club, Uruguay Collectors Club, Zeppelin Collectors Club, First Day Cover Collectors Club, Charles A. Lindbergh Collectors Club, Ethiopian Collectors Club.

Envelope details:
Envelope is white, size #6 ¾ (3⅝” x 6 ½”, 3.625” x 6.5”, 92.1mm x 165.1mm)
Commercial style, gummed seam overlaps. Gummed “mint” seal flap.
Seam overlaps will normally have slight bleed through on backside due to the age of the envelope. The postal cover was sent in to the post office with the seal flap tucked in side with a card stiffener. When received back the card stiffener was removed and the seal flap pulled out of the envelope. The gum on the seal flap is “mint” and does not show any bleed through since the gum was never activated. The cover has always been stored in low humidity in an archival sleeve.
Some backside postal markings will not be completely visible unless the seal flap is tucked back into the envelope since this is the way the cover was processed.

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Zeppex Station Brookfield Illinois September 18 1975 Zeppelin Collectors Club
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