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Please note that our logo is used on our website images only and does not appear on our products. Clipped Signature - Werner Vermehlen. Joined the German Navy in 1909, serving at Jutland on SMS Pillau. Transferred to Zeppelins and served on L14 and L30, then took command of L35 in 1917. He later commanded L42 and L65, taking the latter on the last Zeppelin raid on England on 6th August 1918, and destroying the airship to prevent its capture in 1919. He served as Naval Attache to Japan in World War Two. He died in 1986. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. Item Code : CLP2989 Clipped Signature - Werner Vermehlen. - This Edition Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price! TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING CLIPSIG Clipped Signature. Clipped signatures are usually obtained from prints or publications that have been signed in person. Often, signatures have been rescued - or clipped - from prints that have been damaged in another area. Vermehlen, Werner Signature(s) value alone : £95 £95.00 All prices on our website are displayed in British Pounds Sterling

Extra Details : Clipped Signature - Werner Vermehlen.

About all editions : This photograph was found alongside our signature - it has no information but presumably shows the crew of one the zeppelins Werner Vermehlen commanded : Additional information from our signature source indicates it was signed around 1979. The philatelic collectible the signature is on was flown in an airship - whether the signature was present or not we can not ascertain. The airship in question was the Aerospace Developments AD500 (G-BECE), and the card was flown in it on 3rd February 1979 - the maiden flight of the craft. This airship was damaged (destroyed?) due to a storm the following month, but the company Airship Industries took on the project and developed 6 craft called the Skyship 500. Flying throughout the 1980s, movie fans will know the Skyship 500 - it famously appeared in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill.

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*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare.
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Kapitan Werner Vermehlen (deceased) *Signature Value : £95	Born in El Paso, Mexico in 1890, he joined the German Navy in 1909, serving in the battleship Helgoland from 1911 until 1912. He became the Radio Officer aboard SMS Pillau from 1912 until 1914, serving at the battle of Jutland where SMS Pillau was damaged. He applied to transfer to U-boats, but instead was transferred to Naval Airships, serving on L14 and L30. In the autumn of 1917, he took command of the zeppelin L35 (LZ80), testing the innovation of carrying fighter aircraft. From the end of 1917 until the end of the war he commanded L42 (LZ91) and then L65 (LZ111), which participated in the last raid on England on 6th August 1918. He and his crew destroyed the airship in its hangar at Nordholz on 23rd June 1919 to prevent its capture. Following the war he breifly returned to Mexico before joining the the Reichsmarine in 1934. In April 1942 he sailed aboard Dresden to Japan, where he became Naval Attache Chief of Staff until the end of the war, after which he returned to Germany. He died on 26th September 1986.

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