File:SUI 1909 MiNr0114 pm02 B002.jpg

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Stamp of Switzerland; 1909; definitive stamps of the issue "Helvetia with bough before mountain landscape"; portrait of the "Helvetia" with view to right and a bough in the left hand before snow-covered mountain landscape; value number central-right without frame; stamp postmarked at 1885 Chesières (Canton Vaud, Switzerland), with a two-cicle, grid, non-passing bridge, dwarf cancellation of the type 138 with a diameter of 19 mm
Stamp: Michel: No. 114; Yvert et Tellier: No. 131; AFA: No 128
Color: deep rosy red to dark red on normal paper
Watermark: Switzerland No. 2 (multiple Swiss crosses without oval)
Nominal value: 10 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from 1909 until 31 December 1932
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1932-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

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

Postmark: 1885 Chesières (Canton Vaud, Switzerland), with a two-cicle, grid, non-passing bridge, dwarf cancellation of the type 138 with a diameter of 19 mm
Date (first issue of the stamp)
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Author "Schweizerische Bundespost"
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Picture description Portrait of the "Helvetia" with view to right and a bough in the left hand before snow-covered mountain landscape
First day of issue 1909
Publisher "Schweizerische Bundespost"
Design Charles L'Éplattenier (1874-1946)
Printer "Eidgenössische Münzstätte" (= "The Federal Mint"), Berne
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation 590,000,000 (in sheets à 100 stamps)
Perforation Line or comb perforation, L 11¾ or K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 114
SCOTT Nr. Switzerland, No. 164

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