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English: Stamp of Switzerland; 1947; commemorative stamp of the issue "100th anniversary of Swiss Railway"; drawing of a railway train of the Gotthard express drawn by an electic locomotive; stamp postmarked in 1947

Stamp: Michel: No. 486; Yvert et Tellier: No. 443; AFA: No. 489
Color: red (several red tones)
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 20 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from 9 August 1947 until 31 December 1948
date QS:P,+1947-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1947-08-09T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1948-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 37.5 x 22.0 mm
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Source scan of oiginal
Author "Schweizerische Bundespost"
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of Switzerland or the Swiss cantons. It is therefore not protected by copyright by virtue of Art. 5 of the Swiss Copyright Act.

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Picture description Drawing of a railway train of the Gotthard express drawn by an electic locomotive (The pictured locomotive type is probably an electric Re 4/4 I of the SBB with a today unknown streamlined guise. This locomotive type was built at SLM Winterthur from 1946.)
First day of issue
Publisher "Schweizerische Bundespost"
Design Oscar Ruegg (1896-1987)
Printer Helio Courvoisier S.A., La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland)
Printing technique Photogravure
Circulation 12,980,000 (in sheets à 25 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 486

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