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1931 Overseas Postcard (Airmail)

Example of a Bundesfeier card with imprinted 40c airmail stamp, posted to Italy

3 August 1931: card addressed to Florence. Posted at the main office in Luzern and conveyed by rail via

the St.Gotthard route to Milan, then to Genoa for the SANA (Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea) flight to
Rome, then rail to Florence. LUZERN dispatch cds 3.VIII.31

Goatherd

Artist: Carl August Liner
(1871-1946)

Printer: Paul Bender, Zollikon
No’s sold: 6000

The photograph on the address
side shows avalanche damage
at Piz Platta, the highest peak in
the Oberhalpstein Alps, Canton
Graubünden

Sale Price: 70c, with 30c donated to the Emergency Fund helping Victims of Natural Disasters