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1920 Overseas Postage
Example of a Bundesfeier card uprated for the foreign postcard rate to the United States
4 August 1920: over-franked card from Berne to the USA with additional 7½c Tell Boy adhesive
(foreign postcard rate = 10c), addressed to Elmira, New York
Gymnasts
Artist: Wilhelm Hartung (1878-1957)
Printer: W. Stauffer, Oerlikon
No’s sold: 76,779
The reason why sales of this card
were considerably less than the other
four is not known, but has resulted in
a degree of rarity.
Sale price: 30-35c, with a donation to the Swiss Association of Gymnasts, and the Swiss Association for Vocational Guidance
