1929 · Airship Mail Drop Pouch · Werk 737 von 1.871

A mail drop bag of 1929 lying in the stubble of a mown meadow near a small town in the Palatinate, a flat oblong envelope of strong orange oiled paper, twenty-one centimetres long and fourteen wide, crinkled, lying plain back side up, a small metal eyelet at its left end, from the eyelet a cloth streamer about two metres long of alternating red and white fabric sections trailing in loose curves through the short grass, a boy in short trousers and a white shirt seen from behind bending towards it, poplars, a church tower and tiled roofs in the haze beyond, soft warm sunlight from the right.