File:SUI 1927 MiNr0200x pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Switzerland; 1927; definitive stamp of the issue "Walter Tell" - new colors and values; drawing of Walter Tell standing behind crossbow (print type III); special characteristic (amongst others): pedestal stairs have different highs; bowstring of the crossbow behind the shoulder stock; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 200x; Yvert et Tellier: No. 198; AFA: No. 237
Color: violet red to reddish violet on pale dark chrome yellow granite (fibrillated) paper
Watermark: Switzerland No. 2 (multiple Swiss crosses)
Nominal value: 5 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from June 1927 until 31 December 1942
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1927-06-00T00:00:00Z/10,P582,+1942-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 17.5 x 21.0 mm
Date (first issue of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "Schweizerische Bundespost"
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Picture description The young Walter Tell standing behind a crossbow, holding the bowstring of the crossbow with the right hand and the arrow-pierced apple in the left hand.
First day of issue
Publisher "Schweizerische Bundespost"
Design Albert Welti (1862-1912)
Printer "Eidgenössische Münzstätte" (= "The Federal Mint"), Berne or

"Landestopographie", Wabern at Berne (first stamps for the Swiss state in 1927)

Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation 186,000,000 (in sheets à 100 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 200x

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