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1914 Inland Postcard
The Pestalozzi Foundation was chosen as the recipient charity for funds raised during the 1914 National Festival, and
a set of five cards was produced, each card illustrating a part of Pestalozzi’s life
31 July 1914: addressed to Langenbruck and posted locally in Canton Basel-Landschaft.
BINNINGEN dispatch cds 31.VII.14
Pestalozzi and his nephew Gottlieb
Artist: Georg Friederich Adolph Schöner
(German artist 1774-1841),
City Library, Zurich
Printer: unknown
No’s sold: 62,000 complete sets of five
cards (not sold separately)
Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the Pestalozzi Foundation “Neuhof” (New Farm)
at Birr in Canton Aargau, home for underprivileged young people.
