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1928 25c Inland Postcard (Airmail)

Between 1928 and 1931 additional cards were produced for domestic and overseas airmail use. The inland card
includes an imprinted 25c blue ‘Airplane over the Alps’ design, identical to the airmail postage stamp issues of 1923.

1 August 1928: airmail card
addressed to Basel, posted at
Zürich airport and flown on
the special flight between
Zürich and Basel.

ZÜRICH FLUGPLATZ *
LUFTPOST cds 1.VIII.28

BASEL FLUGPLATZ *
LUFTPOST arrival cds
1.VIII.28

Eight special return flights were organised for 1 August, departing from airfields at Geneva, Lausanne, Le Locle,
Chaux-de-Fonds, Biel, Basel, Zürich and St. Gallen. Each flown card was cancelled with an official cds in red ink.

1 August 1928: card
addressed to the Freidorf
district of Basel and carried
on the special flight
Basel – Le Locle – Basel

BASEL FLUGPLATZ
dispatch cds

LE LOCLE POSTE
AÉRIENNE arrival cds

Sale Price: 50c, with 25c donated to the fund for Pensions and Retirement Homes