Page 54 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1929 Inland Postcard

In 1929 the card size increased to 14.8 x 10.4cm, and the colour of the imprinted stamp changed to brown.

19 July 1929: card addressed to Zurich and posted locally at Oerlikon, an independent municipality until
1934 when it was merged into the city of Zürich. OERLIKON dispatch cds 19.VII.29

Boys raising the Swiss flag

Artist: Jules-Ami Courvoisier
(1884-1936)

Printer: Wolfsberg, Zurich
No’s sold: 275,479

Sale Price: 30c, with 20c donated to the National Fund for Soldiers and their Families