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1931 25c Overseas Printed Matter (Airmail)
The rate for printed matter posted overseas was reduced from 7½c to 5c on 1 July 1930. At the time, the
surcharge for postcards sent airmail to foreign countries was fixed at 20c.
31 August 1931: card addressed to Willmanstrand in Finland and posted at Davos, Canton Graubünden.
By rail to Zürich and Berlin, then possibly airmail on the route Berlin–Stockholm–Helsingfors–Tallinn,
where a regular service operated between 1 May and 30 September. DAVOS-PLATZ dispatch cds 31.VIII.31
Boy on balcony
Artist: Pietro Chiesa (1876-1959)
Printer: Paul Bender, Zollikon
No’s sold: 6174
The photograph on the address
side shows storm damage at
Dallenwil, a village in the half-
canton of Nidwalden
Sale Price: 50c, with 25c donated to the Emergency Fund helping Victims of Natural Disasters
