Hindenburg Airship Authentic Silver Linen Envelope Relic 6x8-inch Acrylic Display

Hindenburg LZ129 Lakehurst Crash Silver Doped Linen 6x8-inch Acrylic Relic Display, by Ron Cole

The wreckage of the Hindenburg was mostly melted for scrap. Over 150,000 pounds of frame metal went to the National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, whose contract forbade the use of the metal for "ash trays, book ends or any similar articles." Thus, authentic material, especially metal, will forever remain extremely rare and difficult to find. 

Each of these displays includes a carefully cut .75x.75-inch section of this silver doped linen material held freely within a matching cutout between the panes of optical acrylic. This design allows for the material to be removed for examination and keeps the original linen free of any adhesives.  

These Hindenburg parts - duraluminum and silver doped linen - were recovered from the scene of the crash by Valentine Pasvolsky, who was the township engineer of nearby Lakewood, New Jersey. A Russian immigrant and veteran of both World Wars, he personally drove crash victims to the hospital, making several trips. His grandson, from whom these parts were acquired, remembers his grandfather retelling the story, and bringing these parts out of a box to show him. Valentine passed away in 1980. His grandson rediscovered the parts only in 2020, and provided a letter of provenance, as well as several newspaper articles about his grandfather, with this collection. 

The artwork itself, which is Giclée-printed on archival acid-free matte paper, is 6x8-inches in size, and is mounted within two panes of optically clear acrylic. 

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