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Zeppelin carried Auguste Piccard flight covers to Altenrhein The Zeppelin flight commemorating the 75th anniversary of Auguste Piccard’s balloon flight into the stratosphere took place on 18 August 2007 under ideal weather conditions. After several sightseeing trips for paying passengers and 4 invitees, the Auguste Piccard covers were loaded into the Zeppelin NT which took off from Dübendorf at 6 pm and landed in Altenrhein roughly two hours later. Because the Altenrhein post office was already closed by that time, the covers Keen take-up of the special cancellation at special post offices Inauguration of the Lötschberg tunnel The inauguration of the Lötschberg tunnel on 16 June 2007 was a day to warm the hearts of inveterate railway fans: The weather was great, as was the general atmosphere. The special post office in Frutigen attracted many fans keen to obtain Swiss Post’s specially designed cancellation, with staff handling countless requests for particular stamps affixed to cards and personally assembled covers to be cancelled with it. Stein am Rhein Town Festival A Swiss Post special post office was in attendance at the Stein am Rhein Town Festival held early in September. Although the “Stein am Rhein millennium” stamps are already known throughout the region, Festival visitors flocked to the special post office to have their stamps embellished on the jubilee cover with the special cancellation designed for this event. The Zeppelin NT with its colourful livery carried several mailbags of flight covers to their destination. News feature the earliest possible arrival postmark – 8 am on Monday, 20 August 2007. Please note: The Auguste Piccard Zeppelin cover advertised in <strong>Focus</strong> 3/2007 is already sold out. 125 years of the Gotthard Railway The 125th anniversary of the Gotthard Railway on 8 and 9 September 2007 was a great occasion for young and old alike. Swiss Post set up a special post office in Erstfeld, besides creating a special cover and a special cancellation – appropriately featuring the: “Croc locomotive“ – for the big day. The event, which was mainly organized by the SBB (Swiss Railways), featured many attractions and tours and drew crowds of interested visitors from near and far.
Stamp collage Marsens (Canton Fribourg) is home to special Swiss stamp enthusiasts. Two patients of the Fondation HorizonSud, an organization for the handicapped, put weeks of meticulous work into creating their own giant stamp collage from several hundred used stamps. The artists, Manuella Vionnet (left) and Claudine Swiss Post’s philatelic salespoints Philatelic Salespoint Basel Swiss Post Freie Strasse/Rüdengasse 4001 Basel Opening hours: Mon–Fri 8.30 am – 6 pm Sat 9 am – 12 noon Philatelic Salespoint Berne Swiss Post Schanzenstrasse 4 3001 Berne Opening hours: Mon–Fri 8.30 am – 5 pm Sat 8.30 am – 11 am Philatelic Salespoint Lausanne Swiss Post Av./Place de la Gare 1000 Lausanne 1 Opening hours: Mon–Fri 9 am – 12.30 pm 1 pm – 5 pm Sat closed Rohrbasser, came to Berne to show their masterpiece to Stamps & Philately and were given a warm welcome. Philatelic Salespoint Lugano Swiss Post Via de la Posta 7 6901 Lugano Opening hours: Mon–Fri 8.30 am – 6.15 pm Sat 8 am – 12 noon Philatelic Salespoint St Gall Swiss Post Bahnhofplatz 5 9001 St Gall Opening hours: Mon–Fri 8.45 am – 5.45 pm Sat 9 am – 12 noon Wrong cancellation The 6 September 2007 first-day cancellation of the “Schellen-Ursli” special stamp contains the wrong postcode for Guarda. The correct one is 7545, and not 7548 (<strong>Focus</strong> 3/2007). The original cancellation will, however, be used uncorrected. Philatelic Salespoint Zurich Swiss Post Kappellengasse 1 8022 Zurich Opening hours: Mon–Fri 8.30 am – 6 pm Sat 9 am – 12 noon Imprint “<strong>Focus</strong> on stamps” is a free magazine, published in English, German, French and Italian. Published by Swiss Post Stamps & Philately Ostermundigenstrasse 91 3030 Berne Switzerland Total print run 195 000 copies Sales & Customer Service � Phone Switzerland: 031 338 06 09 � Phone from abroad: +41 31 338 06 09 � Fax: 031 338 73 08 � E-mail: stamps@post.ch � Internet: www.swisspost.ch � Shop: www.swisspost.ch/ philashop “<strong>Focus</strong> on stamps” No. 4/2007 Copy deadline: 3.9.2007 Distribution: from 9.10.2007 Stamp issues: 31.10. and 20.11.2007 5
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Page 11 and 12: Stamp booklet 2007 Always to hand.
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