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1933 Overseas Postage
Example of a Bundesfeier card uprated for the foreign postcard rate to Italy
1 August 1933: card with additional 10c Tell adhesive making up the foreign postcard rate, addressed to
Florence in Italy, and posted at Luzern. LUZERN 2 machine cancel 1.VIII.33
Ibex on a rocky crag
Artist: Paul Kammüller (1885-
1946)
Printer: Roto-Sadag S.A.,
Geneva
No’s sold: 270,939
The vignette on the address
side includes a picture of the
old town of Splügen, in Canton
Graubünden, which became a
Swiss Heritage site in 1995.
Sale Price: 30c, with 20c donated to the Association for Nature Conservation, and Swiss Heritage Protection
