Posted : Sep 11, 1940 at Bremen

Route : DLH (Deutsche Lufthansa) to Lisbon; Lisbon to New York by FAM 18 Atlantic Clipper; New York to San Francisco by US domestic airlines; San Francisco to Honolulu by next departing Pacific Clipper.

Notes : Pacific clipper airmail originating in Germany is genuinely rare. This is a two-ocean airmail cover to Hawaii, with German censor front and back.

Rate : .65 Marks

Posted : Feb 5, 1941 at Hamburg

Route : DLH (Deutsche Lufthansa) to Lisbon; backstamped Lisbon Feb 11, 1941. From Lisbon, it is uncertain what route the cover took. Does the handstamp STOPPED imply that it was returned to Germany, or did it proceed on to the Philippines by another route?

Notes : The cover was endorsed upper left in manuscript - Mit Luftpost via Lisboa . This indicates that the cover was originally intended for the two-ocean route by Pan Am's Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, across the USA, and by Pacific Clipper to the Philippines. However, the manuscript instructions are crossed out , the word - STOPPED was boldly handstamped on the cover, and just below the handstamp, apparently signed by the person who applied the handstamp. This is the only cover I have ever seen with this handstamp. I have no idea why the cover would have been stopped at Lisbon.....as the USA and Germany were not at war yet..... a very interesting item needing more research!

Rate : 1.90 Marks