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1935 Inland Postcard
The imprinted postage value was changed in 1935 to a smaller design and a new colour. The vignette depicts
vocational skills taught at the voluntary labour camps set up for the training of young unemployed people.
21 August 1935: card addressed to Berne and posted at Schönbühl-Urtenen, a municipality in the Bern-
Mittelland district of Canton Berne. SCHÖNBÜHL-URTENEN dispatch cds 21.VIII.35
(note: in 2001 the village name was changed to Urtenen-Schönbühl)
Preparations for the August
Festival
Artist: Otto Landölt (1889-1951)
Printer: Paul Attinger S.A.,
Neuchâtel
No’s sold: 333,868
Sale Price: 30c, with 20c donated to the fund for promotion of Voluntary Labour Camps for Young Unemployed People
