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1930 Inland Postcard
In 1930 a new design, ‘Mother of Flowing Water’, was chosen for the imprinted 10c postage value. The address
side also includes a vignette showing a child reading a book.
1 August 1931: card with additional 10c Tell adhesive, making the foreign postcard rate, addressed to
Weisbaden in Germany and posted at the main office in Zürich. ZÜRICH 6 dispatch cds 1.VIII.31
(note: posted one year after the issue of the card)
Schoolboy
Artist: Eric de Coulon
(1888-1956)
Printer: Paul Attinger S.A.,
Neuchâtel.
No’s sold: 277,151
Sale Price: 30c, with 20c donated to the fund for Swiss Schools Abroad,
distributed through the Federal Department of the Interior
