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1912 Inland & Overseas Postcard Rate
The production of these cards, with imprinted stamp for the inland postcard rate, suggests they were intended for
domestic use only. However, many were used to send greetings abroad.
1 August 1912: card
addressed to Zürich. Posted
at the military barracks in
Thun, Canton Berne.
THUN (KASERNE) dispatch
cds 1.VIII.12
21 July 1912: card addressed
to Chemnitz, in Saxony,
Germany, and uprated for
the foreign postcard rate with
additional 2c and 3c Tell Boy
adhesives.
Posted at Sils-Baselgia, in
Canton Graubünden.
Children with lights on August 1
st
Artist: Burkhard Mangold (1873-1950)
No’s sold: 205,306
Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the Swiss Red Cross
