Page 9 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1913 Overseas Printed Matter

Two cards were issued for the National Festival in 1913, printed on white and cream card. The address side of each
card includes a vignette of the Anti-Tuberculosis emblem imprinted at top left, and a 5c Tell Boy Type III at top right.

1 August 1913: card addressed to Nürnburg, Bavaria, and treated as printed matter (message
contains five or less words) Posted at Faoug in Canton Vaud.

Scene from the Liberation Wars of
1798

Artist: Augustin Meinrad Bächtiger
(1888 – 1971)

Printer: Graphic Workshop, Gebr. Fretz,
Zurich
No’s sold: 212,306

Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the fund for the fight against Tuberculosis