The Beauty Of The Hobby !!

The beauty of our hobby is you never know what you are going to come accross..i picked up this Swiss Military hospital cover at our club auction tonight !!

Nice, I love the beautiful handwriting!

I know nothing about Switzerland postal but two things are interesting to me -- no stamp and no date in the postmark.

I agree with Stefani about the handwriting. Also, YMCA is interesting.

KirkS

The Beauty of the Hobby......seems like a fitting place to post these.


1957 Swiss color test prints.

















I can never decide which I like best.

Wow, Tom! Those are cool!
Thanks for sharing!
Gussyboy1

Switzerland looks like a neat country to collect.

David

Switzerland, like Austria, and Germany, is one of the few countries
that used Razor cancels

However, if you are a collector of used stamps, the semi postal's,
issued in the 1940's and 50's catalog almost 10 x the value of Mnh

Great post Phil

Great items both Phil and Tom.

Thanks for sharing them with us.

Dianne

Wow, I got dizzy looking at those color test prints.

Phil:

OttawaMike picked up a nice post card for me a few weeks ago. It is postmarked 1907 at Limón, Costa Rica. It's pretty standard, black & white picture of palm trees, a little writing, etc.

I was sorting through my Costa Rica last night... and looked closely at the post card. The post card is from PANAMA and it was posted in Costa Rica, hence the Costa Rican stamps. The writer of the post card is an American, who reports that "the Canal should be finished in ten years". He's referring to the PANAMA CANAL.

What an interesting find, eh?

David

Very nice cover Phil

Most likely the absense of stamps is due to the fact that it was mailed on official business through Red Cross channels and 'officially', did not require stamps on the cover. The same procedure was true for military personel on active duty.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Hi notrare

I have a qyestion about the stamps you scanned: - Are they "Test" stamps from Switzerland for Swiss postal staff for training purposes??

Very interesting to say the least.

Chimo

Bujutsu

No. They are for testing a Rotary Press after Assembly,overhaul, replacement of parts or testing new material. They helped the staff at the printing works.

Here is something nice I got from Philb a while back.











Londonbus1...My first job was in Switzerland !

Hello London........


Thanks for the info......I aways thought these were just color tests.....never knew anything about the printing tests.

50+ years and still learning......what a great place.

I picked this cover up on ebay. GB 1948 Olympic illustrated FDC, with scarce Wembley and rings slogan and CDS postmark. It was a poor scan and I didn't really see the signatures.

Well, a nice surprise! It's autographed by Les McKay, the Australian flag-bearer at the Olympiad. Cost me A$3.10 including postage. The CV for the cover alone is £50

Jubilee thats a nice Olympic Games souvineer !!