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1918 7½c Inland Postcard Rate
Five picture cards were issued for the National Festival in 1918, featuring reproductions from ‘Die Landsgemeinde’,
a mural painted on the walls of the National Palace in Berne by the Swiss artists Albert Welti and Wilhelm Balmer.
23 August 1918: card addressed to Weggis (Lucerne) and carried on the TPO service from St.Gallen.
Federal railways cds BAHNPOST/AMBULANT 23.VIII.18 (train no. 3514)
Election Day in Unterwalden
(Scene I)
Reproduced from a mural painted on
the walls of the National Palace in
Berne.
Artist: Albert Welti (1862-1912) and
Paul Friederich Wilhelm Balmer
(1865-1922)
Printer: unknown
No’s sold: 806,405
Sale price: 30-35c, including a donation to the National Fund for Soldiers and their Families
