Switzerland 1949 Engineering and Landscapes

• Date of Issue: 1st August 1949
• Printing: Itaglio Engraving
• Printer: Federal Printing Office, Bern
• Designer/Engraver: Karl Bickel
• Sheet Size: 50
• Perforations: 11¾
• Catalogue N°s: Yvert 481-492, Michel 529-540

Run (Numbers printed):-

3 - 1,490,000, 5 - 935,524,000, 10 - 2,209,363,000, 15 - 33,662,000, 20 type I - 900,000, type II 1,558,240,000, 25 - 130,360,000

30 - 215,094,000, 35 - 12,965,000, 40 - 307,807,000, 50 - 58,001,000, 60 - 178,773,000, 70 - 22,116,000

Used stamps

3 c High Voltage Conductors	5 c Viaducts near St. Gallen
10 c Mountain railway at Rochers de Naye	10 c at NYON in 1960	15 c Rotary snow plow

20 c Grimsel Reservoir	25 c Dam at Lake Lucerne
30c Poser station on Lake Geneva near Verbois	30c bridge with cross at ZURICH 22 FRAUMUNSTER in 19858	Alpine postal road in Val d'Anniviers

Rhine harbor at Basel in 1951	40c DC at GENEVE 1 in 1952	Aerial tramway from Schwägalp at Säntis	Railway viaduct near Filisur
70 c Triangulation tower at Finsteraarhorn

Booklets

Overprints

Varieties

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The 5 C., 10 C., and 20 C. denominations were each issued in booklets containing 10 panes of 8 stamps.
As these Swiss stamps were printed in a special sheet format (nine vertical rows) for use in creating booklet panes, they all exist in tête-bêche and inter-space pairs.

Tete-Beche pairs from booklets

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Official

World Health Organisation

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Colour Varieties

Printing Varieties

Type I

Type II

Type III (Coil)

Coils

The 5 C., 10 C., 20 C. (Type III), and 40 C. denominations were also issued in coils. These can be identified by a control number on the reverse of every 5th stamp.

EFO

Wrongly Cut Stamps

Grimsel Reservoir, flame postmark at ZÜRICH