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1928 Overseas Postcard (Airmail)

There are many examples of mail from this period, flown by domestic and overseas carriers, with inconsistent
franking, making it difficult to establish how the final postal charge was calculated.

9 August 1928: addressed
to Freiburg am Breisgau
and flown on the regular
Balair service between
Zürich and Basel Mulhouse
(nearest airfield).

The 10c Tell adhesive may
have paid for the surface
mail rate between Basel
and Freiburg.

ZÜRICH FLUGPLATZ *
LUFTPOST cds 9.VIII.28

cachet reads ‘via
airmail/airmail office
Freiburg (Breisgau)’

1 August 1928: addressed to
Frankfurt am Main and flown
on the regular Ad Astra
service between Zürich and
Frankfurt.
The presence of the 2½c Tell
Boy adhesive is a mystery.
ZURICH FLUGPLATZ *
LUFTPOST 1.VIII.28

Sale Price: 70c, with 30c donated to the fund for Pensions and Retirement Homes