GB 1934 SG420 Cinderella - South Downs, Zucker Rocket Post

Stock Code: P212001955

1934 Zucker Rocket Post. Very fine cover addressed to London bearing a 1½d Red-brown tied by a Brighton & Hove cds for JU.6.1934 with a magenta Air Post Exhibition label at lower left. Label overprinted in blue "ROCKET POST/First British Flight" and tied by the TRIAL FIRING/SUSSEX DOWNS cachet.
Although these first test firings were moderately successful (the rocket didn't crash or explode). Gerhard Zucker was little more than a small time crook and his rockets no more than oversized fireworks. He was eventually deported back to Germany where he was jailed for fraud and embezzlement.

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