Page 4 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1910 5c Inland Postcard Rate

The first Bundesfeier card to be issued, with imprinted 5c Tell Boy value, features a picture of Wilhelm Tell on the
reverse. The cards were initially cut to size 145 x 95mm but following complaints from customers re-cut to 140 x 90mm.

1 August 1910: card with imprinted 5c green Tell Boy Type II, addressed to Horgen in Canton Zürich
and posted at the Basel 18 sub post office in Gundeldingen.

Wilhelm Tell and Arnold von Winkelried,
National heroes.

16th century Swiss history records that
Winkelried sacrificed himself during the Battle of
Sempach (1386) to bring about victory for the
Old Swiss Confederacy against the army of the
Habsburg Duke Leopold III of Austria.

Artist: Richard Schaupp (1871-1954)

Printer: unknown
No’s sold: 309,300

The address side is inscribed in the three main
languages of Switzerland and includes the date
st
of the National Festival, 1 August 1910.

Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the fund for victims of the Summer Floods