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1936 Overseas Postage
Example of a Bundesfeier card uprated for the foreign postcard rate to Germany
27 July 1936: card addressed to Wiedenbrück, Germany and posted on the Swiss Federal Railways TPO
service (route unknown)
BAHNPOST * AMBULANT cds 27.VII.36
Girl with lantern
Artist: Hans Zaugg (1894-1986)
Printer: H. Vontobel, Feldmeilen
No’s sold: 355,290
Sale Price: 30c, with 20c donated to the fund for the Fight against Tuberculosis
