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Preview of Stamps Catalogue CD : VOLUME 2 |
Return To Catalogue - Switzerland
Note: on my website many of the pictures can not be seen! They are of course present in the cd's;
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1 c blue (with lines in cirlce) 2 c blue 3 c blue 5 c blue 10 c blue 20 c blue 50 c blue 100 c blue 500 c blue
For the specialist: some of these stamps exist on paper with small silk threads.
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Cheapest types | |||
1 c | * | * | |
2 c | * | * | |
3 c | *** | *** | |
5 c | *** | *** | |
10 c | *** | ** | |
20 c | *** | ** | |
50 c | RR | *** | |
100 c | RR | *** | |
500 c | RR | *** |
1 c green and red 3 c green and red 5 c green and red 10 c green and red 20 c green and red 50 c green and red 100 c green and red 500 c green and red
For the specialist: there are three shades of green for this issue.
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Cheapest types | |||
1 c | c | c | |
3 c | *** | ** | |
5 c | * | c | |
10 c | * | c | |
20 c | * | c | |
50 c | *** | * | |
100 c | *** | * | |
500 c | RR | *** |
2 c green and red 3 c green and red 5 c green and red 10 c green and red 15 c green and red 20 c green and red
These stamps exist with a control number printed at the top of the stamp. These stamps are franchise stamps(?).
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
2 c | * | c | |
3 c | c | c | |
5 c | c | c | |
10 c | * | * | |
15 c | * | * | |
20 c | * | * |
1 c green and red 3 c green and red 5 c green and red 10 c green and red 20 c green and red 25 c green and red 30 c green and red 50 c green and red
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
1 c | c | c | |
3 c | c | c | |
5 c | * | c | |
10 c | * | c | |
15 c | * | c | |
20 c | * | c | |
25 c | * | * | |
30 c | * | c | |
50 c | ** | * |
Surcharged '5' on 3 c green and red (1916) '10' on 1 c green and red (1924) '10' on 3 c green and red (1924) '20' on 50 c green and red (1924)
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
5 c on 3 c | * | * | |
10 c on 1 c | * | * | |
10 c on 3 c | * | * | |
20 c on 50 c | * | * |
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
(-) | R | RRR |
At least the forger Fournier has offered forgeries of these stamps (he offers them for 0.50 Swiss Francs each in his 1914 pricelist as second choice forgeries), I have no pictures available of these forgeries right now.
Many other values exist: 5 c brown, 10 c blue, 20 c olive, 25 c yellow, 30 c green, 40 c green, 50 c blue, 60 c orange, 70 c violet, 80 c olive, 90 c blue, 100 c red, 200 c violet, 300 c violet, 500 c grey, 1 Fr orange, 2 Fr red, 3 Fr violet, 4 Fr yellow, 5 Fr grey, 10 Fr black and red (value in red), 20 Fr brown, 30 Fr violet and 50 Fr red. A complete listing with all the types can be found on: http://www.timbressuisses.ch/cadre.htm.
(Reduced sizes)
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Both types | ** | * |
2 c red 5 c red
5 c red (postcard) 5 c brown (envelope) 10 c red (envelope) 25 c green (envelope) 30 c blue (envelope)
2 c red 2 c brown 2 c black 5 c red 5 c brown 5 c black 10 c red
The following other values are known to me: 5 c orange, 5 c green. Some of the above stamps have a slightly different design, the value is slightly smaller.
(Issued stamps during the second world war)
(Reduced sizes)
The following values exist: 5 c black and red, 10 c red, 25 c grey and red, 50 c blue and red, 1 Fr green and red, 3 Fr brown and red and 20 F lilac and red.
Examples (all of them issued in 1913):
'Sweiz Flugpost Start Aarau', 'Flugspende Basler Flugtage', 'Flugspende Bern', 'Flugspende Langnau', 'Erste Flugpost Burgdorf Bern', 'Herisauer Flugtag', 'Flugtag in Liestal', 'Lugano Pro Aviazone Nazionale' and 'Solothurner Flugpost' (as far as I know, all the labels presented here are genuine):
Forgeries: I know that the 'Langnau' label has been forged by a forger from Hialeah Florida; large numbers of these forgeries are offered on Ebay. General remarks about these forgeries: the forger has probably used a computer scanner and printer, the details are mostly lost in most of his forgeries, the paper is modern and the size does in general not correspond to genuine stamps.
I have been told that the following stamps are essays for Switzerland:
(Reduced sizes)
They have the head of a woman with inscription 'HELVETIA FRANCO', I have seen the imperforate values: 50 c blue, 50 c orange, 50 c black, 50 c lilac, 1 F blue, 1 F orange, 1 F red, 1 F black and 1 F green. I have also seen a 1 F orange perforated.
1870 Red Cross label, inscription 'COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL GENÈVE':
This label was a postage free stamp.
I have often seen the following label for the 'EXPOSITION NATIONALE SUISSE' in Geneva 1896:
(Reduced size)
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