Page 14 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1914 Unsold Cards

Examples of the unsold ‘annulled’ cards are often found postally used, in later years.

28 May 1924: ‘invalidated’ 1914 card addressed to Unterlangenegg, Canton Berne and posted in Thun.

10c Tell adhesive added to make the correct postcard rate. THUN dispatch cds 28.V.24

Pestalozzi with the orphans in Stans (oil on canvas 1879)
by the Swiss artist Konrad Grob (1828-1904)

When the French army invaded the town of Stans in 1798, many children
were left without a home or family. The Swiss government established an
orphanage there and recruited Pestalozzi in December 1798 to take charge
of the newly formed institution

Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the Pestalozzi Foundation “Neuhof” (New Farm)
at Birr in Canton Aargau, home for underprivileged young people.