Page 18 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1916 Inland Postcard

Two separate cards, with imprinted 5c Tell Boy Type III, were issued for the 1916 National Festival, with the
picture subjects representative of peace

26 July 1916: card addressed to Wädenswil and posted locally within the canton of Zürich
ZÜRICH dispatch cds 26.VII.16

Ceres, the Earth Goddess restraining
Mars, the God of War

Artist: Henri-Claudius Forestier (1875-1922)
Printer: Gebr. Fretz A.G., Zürich
No’s sold: 226,107

The picture features an allegorical drawing of
Ceres restraining Mars, symbolic of the Swiss
desire to avoid being drawn into the war.

Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the fund for war-ravaged and homeless Swiss refugees