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1919 Inland Postcard
To coincide with the birth centenary of the Swiss poet and writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), the Bundesfeier
Committee issued a set of four cards celebrating his life.
1 August 1919: a locally posted card addressed to Wil in Canton St.Gallen
WIL dispatch cds 1.VIII.19
Zürich, birthplace of Gottfried Keller
(centennial card)
Artist: Otto Baumberger (1889-1961)
Printer: Johann Edwin Wolfensberger,
Graphic Institute, Zürich
No’s sold: 144,000 complete sets of
cards (25-27) and 53,900 single cards
Sale price: 30-35c, including a donation to the Fund for Creative Artists and the Schiller Fund for Writers
