This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Switzerland.
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“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
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“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
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