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Stamp of Switzerland; 1917; definitive stamp of the issue "Walter Tell" - new colors and values; drawing of Walter Tell standing behind crossbow (print type II); special characteristic (amongst others): pedestal stairs have the same highs; bowstring of the crossbow behind the shoulder stock; stamp postmarked in Horgen, 1920
Stamp: Michel: No. 137x; Yvert et Tellier: No. 158; AFA: No. 155
Color: orange brown on granite paper (fibrilled with silver fibres)
Watermark: Switzerland No. 2 (multiple Swiss crosses)
Nominal value: 3 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from February 1917 until 31 December 1942
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1917-02-00T00:00:00Z/10,P582,+1942-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 17.5 x 21.0 mm

Postmark: Horgen (Kanton Zürich),
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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 "Topographisches Institut", Berne
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation 120,000,000
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 137x

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