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1952 Lakes and Rivers

Designers: In aid of Funds for Historical Printed by Courvoisier
P. Boesch (5c.), Research and Nurses’ Welfare on smooth paper with
O. Baumberger blue and red silk fibres.
5c. recess printed by the
PTT. Perf 11¾.

River Doubs, Lake of
Neuchâtel St.Gotthard

600th Anniversary of Glarus and
Zug joining the Confederation

River Moesa, Lake of Maerjelen,
Graubünden in the Valais

23 September 1952: cover addressed to The Hague, Netherlands. Posted at MPO No.2, attending the Philatelic
Exhibition in Thun. The Overseas Letter Rate increased from 30 to 40c on 1 March 1948.

In 1952, the Bundesfeier Committee changed their name to the Pro Patria Foundation and standardised the inscription on their

stamps to ‘PRO PATRIA’ (For the Homeland), a term first used in 1936