Focus on Stamps 02/2005 - Die Schweizerische Post

<strong>Focus</strong> on stamps 

The Collector’s Magazine Issue 2/2005 

� Travelling in Switzerland: A rabbit called Felix 

� Historical buildings: The new Pro Patria stamps are here 

� For special congratulations: The perfect stamp booklet 

Cheaper admission to the new Zentrum 

Paul Klee in Berne, with <strong>Focus</strong>

2 

Contents 

2 Editorial 

3 New products 

7 Numismatic cover 

Matterhorn 

8 Definitive stamp 

Swiss Design Classics 

“Fixpencil” 

10 Special stamps 

Pro Patria 2005 – “Historical 

monuments of Switzerland” 

14 Special stamp 

Europa – “Gastronomy” 

16 Special stamps 

and picture postcard 

Felix the Bunny 

19 Additional products 



Zentrum Paul Klee Berne 


Football for the visually impaired 

24 Stamp booklet 

Congratulations 

26 Postcards 

A- and B-Post 

27 Special covers 

WebStamp 

30 Speaking for ourselves 

Drawing competition 

<strong>Focus</strong> Christmas competition 

What does “Philately” actually 

mean? 

Single frame first-time show 

New way to pay 

Change in the <strong>Focus</strong> team 

Cover page: 


© Coppenrath Verlag, Münster (Germany) 

Editorial 

Swiss Post and the art scene 

in Switzerland 

More than a museum: the new Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne. Photo: ZPK 

Dear Reader 

At first sight, the Post and art don’t seem 

to have much in common. But when 

you think that nearly every stamp is a 

miniature work of art, the link becomes 

obvious. Swiss Post’s Schönburg headquarters, 

with Bernhard Luginbühl’s 

statue of William Tell in its forecourt, is 

one of the landmarks of Berne, way up 

above the Bear Pit. And Swiss Post 

decided to become a founding partner of 

the Zentrum Paul Klee for the following 

three reasons, among others: 

� With his visual imagery, Paul Klee is 

one of the most outstanding and 

distinctive Classic Modernists. He aptly 

personifies the resolve to renew and 

change things, which is also indispensable 

for today’s Post in a globalized 

economy. 

� Renzo Piano’s building is a superb 

example of leading-edge, innovative 

architecture, meeting all the requirements 

for a new urban landmark in the federal 

capital, that creates an architectural 

link between Berne’s past in the shape 

of its cathedral, the Federal Houses 

of Parliament and the architecture of 

the future. Tradition, receptiveness 

to new ideas, and creative drive are also 

important elements in Swiss Post’s 

business strategy. 

� Paul Klee was a customer of the Post: 

In his diary for June/July 1904, he wrote: 

“I went to Thun with Brack, and from 

there by postbus to Amsoldingen- 

Stocken.” Then he climbed the Stock- 

horn on foot: “You get to the summit… 

virtually on all fours.” Even in those days, 

the Post and its modern means of 

transport helped city-dwellers to get out 

into the country and to the mountains 

quickly. 

I am delighted that Swiss Post has been 

allowed to design and issue a special 

stamp with motifs by Paul Klee and even 

more so that our cultural sponsoring has 

made a contribution to the creation 

of this magnificent edifice for the benefit 

of art lovers in Switzerland and throughout 

the world. I am confident that this 

Zentrum has the potential for a great 

future, because, just as Klee himself 

was a gifted musician besides being an 

artist, it will be home to other forms 

of artistic expression in addition to the 

pictorial arts. So once again, stamps, 

as a miniature art form, have embarked 

on an interesting and mutually stimulating 

symbiosis involving painting, the 

graphic arts, sculpture and architecture. 

Dr. Ulrich Gygi, 

Swiss Post CEO

New Products 

First days of issue of stamps and postal stationery 

15.2.2005, 8.3.2005 and 10.5.2005 

Numismatic cover 8.3.2005 

Numismatic Cover “Matterhorn” 

with a block of four of the 

“Wonderful symphony – merci” 

and a special valid coin 

“Matterhorn”, cancelled with 

the publicity postmark of 

“3920 Zermatt 8.3.05” 

Size B6 (176�125 mm) 

1038 210 � only 

CHF 16.50 

(will be delivered with 

the orders of 10.5.2005) 

Definitive stamp 10.5.2005 

Swiss Design Classics 

CHF 2.20 “Fixpencil” 

Single stamp 

1015 150 � 

1015 550 � 

CHF 2.20 

No block of four 

Customers with 

standing orders for sets 

of blocks of four will 

receive, for each set 

ordered, 1� 1015 150 

and/or 1015 550 

Single stamp 

on 

first-day cover 


CHF 3.10 

477 

Design-Klassiker Schweiz 

Classiques du design suisse 

I classici del design svizzero 

Swiss design classics 

220 c. 

Fixpencil 

Gestaltung/Conception/Realizzazione/Design 

Susanne Perron und Wolfgang Möhrle, Luzern 

Offsetdruck/Impression en offset/Stampa offset/Offset printing 

Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem, Nederland 

Folder 

1015 660 � 

1015 670 � 

CHF 3.10 


stamp booklet 

with 10 CHF 2.20 self-adhesive 

stamps 

1015 300 � 

1015 800 � CHF 22.00 

Key � = mint � = cancelled 


on first-day cover 


standing orders for 

block of four on firstday 

cover will receive, 

for each set ordered, 

1� 1015 580 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 

from 20.4.2005 

1015 700 

CHF 0.90 

Dauermarke 

10.5.2005 

Timbre-poste ordinaire 

Francobollo ordinario 

Definitive stamp 

Design-Klassiker Schweiz 

Classiques du design suisse 

I classici del design svizzero 

Swiss design classics 

220 c. 

Fixpencil 


Susanne Perron und Wolfgang Möhrle, Luzern 



Collection sheet 

1015 680 � 

1015 690 � 

CHF 2.80 

Business sheet 


50 CHF 2.20 self-adhesive 

stamps 

1015 360 � only CHF 110.00 

631 

Special stamps with surcharge 10.5.2005 

Pro Patria “Historical monuments of Switzerland” 

CHF 1.25 (0.85+0.40) Rotach houses, Zurich 

CHF 1.25 (0.85+0.40) Monte Carasso Abbey, TI 

CHF 1.50 (1.00+0.50) St. Katharinental Abbey, Diessenhofen TG 

CHF 1.50 (1.00+0.50) Palais Wilson, Geneva 

Set 

1009 150 � 

1009 550 � 

CHF 5.50 

471 

Baudenkmäler der Schweiz 

Patrimoine architectural de la Suisse 

Il patrimonio architettonico della Svizzera 

Historical monuments of Switzerland 

85+40 c. Rotachhäuser Zürich ZH 

Maisons Rotach Zurich ZH 

Case Rotach Zurigo ZH 

Rotach houses Zurich ZH 

85+40 c. Kloster Monte Carasso TI 

Couvent Monte Carasso TI 

Convento Monte Carasso TI 

Monte Carasso Abbey TI 

100+50 c. St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

Couvent St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

Convento St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

St. Katharinental Abbey Diessenhofen TG 

100+50 c. Palais Wilson Genf GE 

Palais Wilson Genève GE 

Palazzo Wilson Ginevra GE 

Palais Wilson Geneva GE 


Roland Bissig, Kriens 


Cartor Security Printing, La Loupe, France 

Folder 

1009 660 � 

1009 670 � 

CHF 6.40 

Set of 

blocks of four 

1009 160 � 

1009 560 � 

CHF 22.00 

Set on 



CHF 6.40 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 


1009 700 

CHF 0.90 

Sondermarken 


Timbres-poste spéciaux 

Francobolli speciali 

Special stamps 

Pro Patria 

Baudenkmäler der Schweiz 

Patrimoine architectural de la Suisse 

Il patrimonio architettonico della Svizzera 

Historical monuments of Switzerland 

85+40 c. Rotachhäuser Zürich ZH 

Maisons Rotach Zurich ZH 

Case Rotach Zurigo ZH 

Rotach houses Zurich ZH 

85+40 c. Kloster Monte Carasso TI 

Couvent Monte Carasso TI 

Convento Monte Carasso TI 

Monte Carasso Abbey TI 

100+50 c. St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

Couvent St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

Convento St. Katharinental Diessenhofen TG 

St. Katharinental Abbey Diessenhofen TG 

100+50 c. Palais Wilson Genf GE 

Palais Wilson Genève GE 

Palazzo Wilson Ginevra GE 

Palais Wilson Geneva GE 


Roland Bissig, Kriens 




1009 680 � 

1009 690 � 

CHF 6.10 

Pro Patria stamp booklet 

Six CHF 0.85+0.40 stamps with the “Monte Carasso 

Abbey”motif and four CHF 1.00+0.50 stamps with 

the “St. Katharinental Abbey, Diessenhofen” motif, 

plus CHF 1.00 for the cover 

1028 300 � 

1028 800 � CHF 14.50 

625 

Single stamp 



(4 covers) 


CHF 9.10 

Block of four 



(4 covers) 


CHF 25.60 

4 sheets 

of 20 stamps 

1009 100 � 

1009 500 � 

CHF 110.00 

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New Products 

Ordering made easy! 

Special stamp 10.5.2005 

CHF 1.00 Europa 2005 “Gastronomy” 

Single stamp 

1014 150 � 

1014 550 � 

CHF 1.00 

Block of four 

1014 160 � 

1014 560 � 

CHF 4.00 

Additional products 


Notepaper pack* 

1051 900 

CHF 13.60 

Game “Felix ludo”* 

1051 902 

CHF 27.90 

4 

Single stamp 




CHF 1.90 

476 

Gastronomie 


Gastronomia 

Gastronomy 

100 c. 






Annette Maïga, Konolfingen 



Folder 

1014 660 � 

1014 670 � 

CHF 1.90 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 


1014 700 

CHF 0.90 

* Delivery in Switzerland only 

Share of delivery cost per order CHF 6.00 

Block of four 




CHF 4.90 

Sondermarke 

Timbre-poste spécial 

Francobollo speciale 

Special stamp 

Europa 





100 c. 







Annette Maïga, Konolfingen 




1014 680 � 

1014 690 � 

CHF 1.60 

1 sheet 

of 16 stamps 

1014 100 � 

1014 500 � 

CHF 16.00 

Book 

“Weltbeste Briefe von Felix”* 

(German only) 

1051 901 

CHF 26.90 

2005 Issue schedule 

Flyer A5 

1001 903 English 

Free 

630 

Special stamps 10.5.2005 


CHF 0.85 Appenzellerland 

CHF 1.00 Chillon Castle 

Set 

1011 150 � 

1011 550 � 

CHF 1.85 

Set of 

blocks of four 

1011 160 � 

1011 560 � 

CHF 7.40 

Set on 



CHF 2.75 

Single stamp 



(2 covers) 


CHF 3.65 

Block of four 



(2 covers) 


CHF 9.20 

473 

FELIX der Hase 

FELIX le lapin 

FELIX il leprotto 

FELIX the bunny 

85 c. 

Appenzellerland 

Pays d’Appenzell 



100 c. 

Schloss Chillon 

Château de Chillon 

Castello di Chillon 

Chillon Castle 


Constanza Droop, Deutschland 

© Coppenrath Verlag, Münster, Deutschland 



Folder 

1011 660 � 

1011 670 � 

CHF 2.75 

Sondermarken 


Timbres-poste spéciaux 

Francobolli speciale 

Special stamps 

FELIX der Hase 

FELIX le lapin 

FELIX il leprotto 

FELIX the bunny 

85 c. 


Pays d’Appenzell 



100 c. 

Schloss Chillon 

Château de Chillon 

Castello di Chillon 



Constanza Droop, Deutschland 

© Coppenrath Verlag, Münster, Deutschland 




1011 680 � 

1011 690 � 

CHF 2.45 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 


1011 700 

CHF 0.90 

2 sheets 

of 16 stamps 

1011 100 � 

1011 500 � 

CHF 29.60 

Postal stationery 10.5.2005 

Picture postcard “Felix the Bunny” 

1 picture postcard 

“Felix the Bunny” 

(postage value 

CHF 0.85 + 0.40 

per card) 



CHF 1.25 

Key � = mint � = cancelled 

627

Use the enclosed order form 


CHF 1.00 “Zentrum Paul Klee Berne” 

Single stamp 

1010 150 � 

1010 550 � 

CHF 1.00 

Block of four 

1010 160 � 

1010 560 � 

CHF 4.00 

472 Zentrum Paul Klee Bern 

100 c. 

Zentrum Paul Klee Bern 


Claudia Bernet, Bern 



Folder 

1010 660 � 

1010 670 � 

CHF 1.90 




Special stamp 


100 c. 




Claudia Bernet, Bern 



626 

1 sheetlet 

of 6 stamps 

1010 310 � 

1010 810 � 

CHF 6.00 


CHF 1.00 “Football for the visually impaired” 

Single stamp 

1012 150 � 

1012 550 � 

CHF 1.00 

Block of four 

1012 160 � 

1012 560 � 

CHF 4.00 

474 

Behinderten-Fussball 

Football pour handicapés 

Calcio per disabili 

Football for people with disabilities 

100 c. 

Sehbehinderten-Fussball 

Football pour malvoyants 

Calcio per ipovedenti 



Pierre Castella, Fribourg 



Folder 

1012 660 � 

1012 670 � 

CHF 1.90 

Single stamp 


first-day cover C6 


CHF 1.90 

Sheetlet 



(not included 

in standing order) 


CHF 7.20 




Special stamp 


Behinderten-Fussball 

Football pour handicapés 

Calcio per disabili 

Football for people with disabilities 

100 c. 

Sehbehinderten-Fussball 

Football pour malvoyants 

Calcio per ipovedenti 



Pierre Castella, Fribourg 




1012 680 � 

1012 690 � 

CHF 1.60 

628 

Block of four 




CHF 4.90 

Unstamped 

cover C6 

(162�114 mm) 

available 


1012 700 

CHF 0.90 

Unstamped 

cover C5 

(229�162 mm) 

available 


1012 701 

CHF 1.20 

1 sheetlet 

of 6 stamps 

1012 310 � 

1012 810 � 

CHF 6.00 

Stamp booklet 10.5.2005 

CHF 1.00 “Congratulations” (available only as single stamp or in a stamp booklet) 

Single stamp 

1016 150 � 

1016 550 � 

CHF 1.00 

Single stamp 




CHF 1.90 

Sheetlet 



(not included 

in standing order) 


CHF 7.20 


1010 680 � 

1010 690 � 

CHF 1.60 



standing orders for sets 

of blocks of four will 

receive, for each set 

ordered, 1� 1016 150 

and/or 1016 550 

Block of four 


first-day cover E6 


CHF 5.00 

Unstamped 

cover C6 

(162�114 mm) 

available 


1010 700 

CHF 0.90 

Unstamped 

cover E6 

(200�142 mm) 

available 


1010 701 

CHF 1.00 

Unstamped 

cover C5 

(229�162 mm) 

available 


1010 702 

CHF 1.20 

Stamp booklet 

with 2� 5 CHF 1.00 

self-adhesive stamps 

and vignettes 

1016 300 � 

1016 800 � 

CHF 10.00 

Single stamp 




CHF 1.90 


on first-day cover 


standing orders for 

block of four on firstday 

cover will receive, 

for each set ordered, 

1� 1016 580 

Continued 

on page 6 

5

Stamp booklet (continued) 10.5.2005 

CHF 1.00 “Congratulations” 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 


1016 700 

CHF 0.90 

No sheet 

Available only as 

single stamp or in 

a stamp booklet 

Special covers 

A-mail and B-mail 

with address* 

(2 covers, 

available in set only)) 


CHF 3.65 

6 

475 

Glückwünsche 

Meilleurs voeux 

Cordiali auguri 


100 c. 






Sandra Schlapbach, Bern 

Flexodruck/Impression flexographique/Stampa flessografica/Flexo printing 

Permapack AG, Rorschach 

Folder 

1016 660 � 

1016 670 � 

CHF 1.90 

Postal stationery 10.5.2005 

Postcards 

B-mail (Economy) 

1046 325 � 

1046 825 � 

CHF 0.85 

A-mail (Priority) 

1045 325 � 

1045 825 � 

CHF 1.00 

Special covers “WebStamp” 15.2.2005 

Special cover 

“Lettre Signature” 

(LSI) with address* 


CHF 5.90 

Unstamped 

cover 

available 


1103 585 

CHF 0.90 

* will be delivered with the orders of 10.5.2005 




Special stamp 





100 c. 







Sandra Schlapbach, Bern 

Flexodruck/Impression flexographique/Stampa flessografica/Flexo 

printing 

Permapack AG, Rorschach 


1016 680 � 

1016 690 � 

CHF 1.60 

Special products 

629 

Year Book 

“la collection suisse 

2004” 

974 832 � 

974 833 � 

CHF 59.00 

Since 1.3.2005 

without the 

definitive stamp 

“Chair by 

Le Corbusier” 

Year Set 2004 

993 321 � 

993 821 � CHF 53.65 

Since 1.3.2005 without the definitive stamp 

“Chair by Le Corbusier” 

Year Set 

of first-day covers 2004 


CHF 75.45 

Since 1.3.2005 

without the 


“Swiss Design Classics” 

Single stamps from sheets/sheetlets 10.5.2005 

Pro Patria 2005: 

Rotach houses, Zurich 


CHF 1.25 

Monte Carasso 

Abbey, TI 

1009 102 � only 

CHF 1.25 

St. Katharinental 

Abbey, 

Diessenhofen TG 


CHF 1.50 

Palais Wilson, Geneva 


CHF 1.50 

Europa 2005 

“Gastronomy” 


CHF 1.00 

Zentrum Paul Klee 


CHF 1.00 

Felix the Bunny: 



CHF 0.85 


1011 102 � only 

CHF 1.00 

Football for 

the visually impaired 


CHF 1.00 

NEW 

Set of single stamps – Issue 2/2005 

The single stamps of the 2/2005 issue in a set 

1053 150 � 

1053 550 � CHF 13.55 

NEW 

Set of first-day covers – Issue 2/2005 

The first-day covers of the 2/2005 issue in a set 

1053 580 � only CHF 19.85 

Voucher 

871 399 

CHF 15.00 

Stamp catalogue 

Michel 

Special catalogue 

Switzerland/ 

Liechtenstein 2005* 

Contents: approximately 

496 pages with 

4500 illustrations and 

40 000 indicated prices 

Art No. 3842 

German only 

CHF 53.00 

* Delivery in 

Switzerland 

only 

Share of delivery cost 

per order CHF 6.00 

Swiss Post’s General Terms and Conditions of Business concerning the purchase of stamps and philatelic items form an integral part of individual orders 

and are tacitly accepted by each customer who sends an order. 

The updated version of these Terms and Conditions was published in <strong>Focus</strong> 3/2002 and can be ordered at any time by telephone (+41 [0]31 338 06 09) or downloaded 

from the Internet (www.swisspost.ch/philashop).

Numismatic Cover 

Matterhorn 

Sales: from 10.5.2005, 

while stocks last 

Post offices: not available 

Philatelic 

salespoints: until 31.12.2005 

Pre-release: from 27.4.2005 

Price: CHF 16.50 

No empty covers available 

Printing: Offset, 1-side, 2-colour 

Sizes: 

Cover: B6 (176�125 mm) 

Stamp: 40�32.5 mm 

Slogan postmark 

cancellation: 

Coin: 

Diameter: 33 mm 

(core 23 mm/ring 33 mm) 

Weight: 15 grammes 

Alloy: Bimetal 

(Alu-bronze + cupro-nickel) 

Quality: uncirculated 

Issue date: 30.1.2004 

Nominal value: CHF 10.00 

Designer: Stephan Bundi, 

Boll BE 

Front 

Back 

Author: Gregor Huber, 

Swiss Post, 

Berne 

“Wonderful symphony – merci”, it says in the stamp issue of 8 March 2005. 

The special stamp based on an idea of Stephan Eicher, the world-famous 

Swiss musician, turns the spotlight on the Matterhorn, the epitome of Swiss 

mountains. Or, to be more accurate, on its geological origin. Unusual, exciting, 

surprising – the Matterhorn is mostly of African origin (See article in 

<strong>Focus</strong> 1/2005). 

The Matterhorn is also honoured in the 

“Swiss Mountains” set which swissmint – 

the official Mint of the Swiss Confederation 

– launched last year. Immortalized 

artistically, majestically and comprehensively 

in metal, it takes its place in 

a traditional “gallery”, which began in 

1936 when the Swiss Confederation 

started issuing commemorative coins to 

mark important historical and cultural 

events or to honour major personages, as 

well as typical examples of Switzerland’s 

cultural and natural heritage. 

Coins and stamps have twice been united 

by Swiss Post in recent years: in 1998, 

a numismatic letter was issued to mark 

“150 Years of the Post”, and in 2002 

for the Quatercentenary of Geneva’s 

Escalade. Both issues were well received 

by collectors – all the more reason to 

combine metal and paper harmoniously 

once again in a superb collector’s item. 

The “Matterhorn” numismatic cover 

consists of a block of four of the special 

stamp “Wonderful symphony – merci” of 

Stephan Eicher and the “Matterhorn” 

commemorative bimetal coin with a legal 

face value of CHF 10.00 designed by 

Stephan Bundi from Boll near Berne. 

And to cap it all, this numismatic cover 

sports the appropriate Zermatt cancellation 

of 8 March 2005 – naturally with 

the silhouette of the Matterhorn! Why 

not enhance your collection with an 

exceptional combination of legal tender 

and postage, which will certainly give 

you pleasure for years to come? 

For further information about coins: 

swissmint, Tel. 031 322 60 68, www.swissmint.ch 

7

Swiss Design Classics Definitive Stamp 

“Fixpencil” – a classic with timeless good looks 

8 

The “Swiss Design Classics” set goes 

on growing with a world-famous 

addition – the practical propelling 

Fixpencil made by Caran d’Ache, 

which stars on the new self-adhesive 

CHF 2.20 definitive. 

Many world-famous design classics 

were created in Switzerland, and their 

aesthetic appeal and convenience of 

use have stood the test of time. 

The Fixpencil too is an article with a 

long history. The pencil with lead refills 

was invented in 1929 by a Geneva 

engineer. A year later, Caran d’Ache put 

the pencil on the market and registered 

“Fixpencil” as a trademark, and this 

first spring-clutch all-metal mechanical 

pencil became an immediate success 

all over the world. 

In the meantime, millions of copies of the 

elegant, light and functional Fixpencil, 

which was awarded the “Swiss Quality” 

seal of approval, have been sold. It 

has lost nothing of its attractiveness in 

Business sheet 

The trademark hexagonal 

shape: Top, a 1929-vintage 

Fixpencil model. Below, 

one from the 1940s and three 

current-design propelling 

pencils. 

Stamp booklet

all these years. The Fixpencil is produced 

in various models to fit leads of different 

diameters. Current models have a builtin 

sharpener and a patented push-button 

mechanism to hold the lead firmly in 

place. The colours are sprayed on using 

electrostatic powder coating which 

makes the leadholder even harderwearing. 

With its user-friendly pushbutton 

mechanism, the pencil almost 

works by itself. The hexagonal holder 

shape, a hallmark of Caran d’Ache, 

discreetly underlines its relationship to 

the firm that put it on the market. 

The Fixpencil had a lasting influence on 

the technology and design of writing 

utensils. Although it was invented over 

70 years ago, this Design Classic is 

still ultra-modern and forms a fitting 

conclusion to the definitive set presenting 

a total of six Swiss Design articles from 

past decades. 


until further notice 

Post offices: until further notice 

Philatelic 

salespoints: until further notice 


Validity: unlimited from 10.5.2005 

Unstamped covers will be available for 

CHF 0.90 each at all philatelic salespoints and 

the Stamps and Philately Customer Service from 


Printing: Offset, 

5-colour; 

Joh. Enschedé, 

Haarlem, Netherlands 

Sizes: 

Stamp: 33�38 mm (incl. label) 

Stamp booklet, 

open: 183�84 mm 

Business sheet, 

folded: 180�125 mm 

Paper: white stamp paper, 

self-adhesive, 

on backing paper, 

220 gm 2 

Perforation: serpentine cut (4 sides) 

First-day 


First-day cover motif 

Designers: Susanne Perron and 

Wolfgang Möhrle, Lucerne 

Author: Claudia Baumgartner, 

Swiss Post, Berne 

9

Special Pro Patria Stamps “Historical monuments 

of Switzerland” 

In honour of the Society for the History of Art in Switzerland 

The Society for the History of Art 

in Switzerland (SHAS) celebrates its 

125th anniversary this year. In 

honour of this Society, which has 

done so much for the cultural 

heritage of our country, Swiss Post 

and the Swiss Pro Patria Foundation, 

in close consultation with the SHAS, 

have selected four major historical 

monuments for this year’s stamps. 

Through its publications, the Society for 

the History of Art in Switzerland makes 

architecture and art accessible in innumerable 

ways. If you’re travelling through 

Switzerland, you’ll always have reliable 

information to hand in the shape of 

the Society’s art guides. And if you want 

to study Switzerland’s cultural landscapes 

in depth, its basic reference texts – the 

“Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz” (Art 

Monuments of Switzerland) or the 

“Inventar der neueren Schweizer 

Architektur 1850–1920 INSA” (Inventory 

of Modern Swiss Architecture) – are 

just what you need. 

South view of the Rotach houses, Wasserwerkstrasse 27, 29 and 31, in Zurich 

10 

One of the highpoints of anniversary year 

2005 will be the publication of the first 

two volumes of the four-volume new 

edition of the “Kunstführer durch die 

Schweiz” (Guide to Art in Switzerland). 

This standard work will contain everything 

worth knowing about historical 

monuments in Switzerland and their 

appointments. 20th century architecture 

has been systematically included for the 

first time. With its clear design and 

exhaustive index, the guide will be not 

only a reliable reference tool but also 

a practical travelling companion. 

The Swiss Pro Patria Foundation is 

promoting the publication of the new 

“Guide to Art in Switzerland” both 

morally and financially. 

List of publications by the Society for the History 

of Art in Switzerland: 

Society for the History of Art in Switzerland, 

Pavillonweg 2, 3012 Berne, 

Telephone 031 308 38 38, www.gsk.ch 

CHF 0.85+0.40 

Rotach houses, Zurich 

“Liberated living” in modern 

architecture 

The model houses in Wasserwerkstrasse in Zurich, 

also known as Rotach houses, are among the 

best-known and most significant examples of 

“New Architecture” in Switzerland. Inspired by 

the successful German Werkbund settlement at 

the Weissenhof in Stuttgart (1927), the housing 

exhibition “Das neue Heim II” (New Home II) opened 

in Zurich in 1928. An exhibition in the Museum of 

Decorative Arts and a purpose-built model settlement 

were intended to familiarize the Zurich public with 

the ideals of the “New Architecture” and modern 

living. Zurich architect Max Ernst Haefeli won a 

competition to build the small model settlement in 

Wasserwerkstrasse on the right bank of the River 

Limmat. During the exhibition, the four model 

apartments for middle-class families were open to 

the public. 

The model settlement, consisting of three staggered 

housing units, faces south, towards the Limmat 

and the Platzspitz park. Each unit has large southfacing 

windows, balconies, a roof-top terrace and a 

garden. When they were built, the model houses 

in Zurich were the epitome of the “liberated” 

living propagated by the international Modernist 

movement, satisfying the criteria of functional 

architecture and the call for light, air and sun in 

housing construction without, however, going to 

extremes.

CHF 0.85+0.40 

Monte Carasso Abbey, TI 

The sensitive restoration and 

conversion of an abbey complex 

Monte Carasso is a village of about 1600 inhabitants 

on the outskirts of Bellinzona. Since 1993, the local 

elementary school has been housed in the premises 

of a former 15th-century Augustinian abbey in 

the village centre. The conversion and exemplary 

restoration of the abbey complex, including the 

church of Saints Bernardino and Girolamo were part 

of a large-scale project to restructure the village 

centre of Monte Carasso. 

The chief architect was Luigi Snozzi, a leading 

representative of the contemporary Ticino architectural 

scene. For him, building is a public affair, and 

his work shows a profound respect for the history of 

the particular environment, combined with an 

intense determination to make a radically modern 

architectural impression. Snozzi’s buildings are 

characterized by a predilection for the sensitive and 

intelligent use of fairfaced concrete, and his 

conversion of Monte Carasso became world-famous. 

This urban planning project is unique in Switzerland 

and could not have been implemented without 

the openness and active cooperation of the local 

authorities and residents. 

Cloister of Monte Carasso Abbey, TI Photos: Heinz Dieter Finck, Zurich 

Pro Patria collection 2005: Social projects with a cultural link 

Each year, the Pro Patria Foundation 

Council decides on the main aim of 

its annual collection, taking care to 

develop or spotlight new and attractive 

themes, in the spirit of the Foundation’s 

purpose. 

The 2005 Pro Patria campaign is specifically 

aimed at helping to translate into 

action for the first time the Foundation’s 

newly formulated social thrust, namely 

the promotion of selected projects 

which ideally combine the social and 

the cultural. Support is mainly given to 

original, innovative and trail-blazing 

projects, a combination in which the 

Foundation Council sees a special challenge. 

Pro Patria campaigns aim to publicize 

matters of public interest while collecting 

funds to implement selected projects. 

For its collections – Pro Patria stamps 

with surcharges for the benefit of the 

Foundation, and the National Day 

(1 August) badge – the Foundation can 

rely on an extensive network of volunteers 

throughout Switzerland. Indeed, 

Pro Patria has owed its success since 

1909 to the support and solidarity of 

people in every part of the country. 

Contact for further information: 

Swiss Pro Patria Foundation, 

Clausiusstrasse 45, 8023 Zurich, 

Tel. 044 265 11 60, www.propatria.ch 

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CHF 1.00+0.50 

St. Katharinental Abbey, 

Diessenhofen TG 

From a Dominican abbey to 

a rehab clinic 

The St. Katharinenthal convent in Diessenhofen on 

the Rhine was founded in the late Middle Ages. In 

1267, the German theologian, philosopher and 

Dominican monk Albertus Magnus consecrated the 

first abbey church of the Dominican order established 

on that site. In the 18th century, under Prioress 

Josepha von Rottenburg, the abbey went through 

internal reform and experienced a new heyday: From 

1714 to 1718, Austrian baroque architect Franz Beer 

constructed the new abbey complex, and this 

was followed in 1732–38 by the rebuilding of the 

St. Katharinental Abbey complex in Diessenhofen TG Photos: Heinz Dieter Finck, Zurich 

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abbey church by Johann Michael II. Beer (from 

plans by Franz II. Beer and Caspar Moosbrugger). 

The church is regarded as one of the most balanced 

creations of Austrian-Swiss baroque. In its interior, 

architecture, stuccowork, carving and painting marry 

to form an impressive work of art. A magnificent 

organ loft with a richly decorated balustrade spans 

the entrance nave. The organ itself was installed 

in 1733–41. The superb ceiling and mural paintings 

are by Jakob Karl Stauder, as is the painting on 

the high altar. 

The abbey was deconsecrated in 1869, and a new 

social use was found for the convent and its 

outbuildings. They were once used as the Canton 

Thurgau old people’s and nursing home, and today 

they house the Thurgau St. Katharinental rehabilitation 

clinic. The most recent restoration of the 

former religious institution complex and abbey 

church was carried out in 1974–89, in cooperation 

with the cantonal office for the preservation of 

historical monuments. 

CHF 1.00+0.50 

Palais Wilson, Geneva 

An important historical testimony to 

international life in Geneva 

Palais Wilson – once the Hôtel National and the first 

headquarters of the League of Nations – has housed 

the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner 

for Human Rights since 1998. The building is made 

available to the UN, the successor to the League 

of Nations, by the Swiss Confederation. The Hôtel 

National was given its present name in 1924, after 

the death of US President and Nobel Peace Prize 

Winner, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who had played 

a decisive part at the 1919 peace conference in the 

establishment of the League of Nations. Geneva 

was chosen as the headquarters of this first worldwide 

organization, which bought the hotel in 

September 1920. 

Jacques-Elisée Goss had constructed the building in 

1874/75 shortly before the Grand Théâtre. The 

largest and most prestigious hotel in Geneva was 

erected on the embankment on the righthand side of 

the lake. The rational severity of its structure and 

spatial division was relieved by colonnaded porches 

in front of the magnificent facade, which gave onto 

an English-style esplanade with a balustrade. After 

1905, Marc Camoletti modernized the hotel, and in 

1919/20, together with his son, converted the 

skylights into loggias and renovated the interior to 

provide modern comforts. 

The League of Nations moved in in October 1920. In 

1931, Adolphe Guyonnet constructed an avantgarde 

pavillion, in which the Disarmament Conference 

was held in February 1932. The expansion of the 

international organizations made it necessary to build 

the Palais des Nations. In 1936, the League of 

Nations moved and sold the Palais Wilson, which had 

become too small for it, to the Swiss Confederation 

and the Canton of Geneva. The premises were 

then rented to various institutions and private individuals. 

The building was damaged by fire in 1985 and 1987, 

and the second fire destroyed the Disarmament 

Conference pavillion. As the future Human Rights 

House, the building was renovated by the architects 

Erbeia, Morel und Kössler and newly inaugurated 

in 1998.

Palais Wilson, Geneva Photo: Alain Grandchamp/Documentation Photographique VdG 

A stamp booklet issued at the Swiss Pro Patria Foundation’s request contains a selection of 10 stamps: 

6 CHF in 0.85+0.40 stamps with the “Monte Carasso Abbey, TI” motif and 4 CHF in 1.00+0.50 stamps with 

the “St. Katharinental Abbey, Diessenhofen TG” motif, plus CHF 1.00 for the cover = retail price CHF 14.50. 

The booklet is also available from the Swiss Pro Patria Foundation, Clausiusstrasse 45, 8023 Zurich, from 

Swiss Post philatelic salespoints and from stamp dealers. 



Post offices: until 31.8.2005 

Philatelic 








Printing: offset, 4-colour; 

Cartor Security Printing, 

La Loupe, France 

Sizes: 

Stamps: 33�28 mm 

Sheet: 194�140 mm 

(5 rows of 4 stamps) 

Paper: white stamp paper, with optical 

brightener, mat gummed, 

110 gm 2 

Perforation: 13 1 ⁄4:13 

First-day 



Designer: Roland Bissig, Kriens 

Text: Swiss Pro Patria Foundation 

Society for the History of Art 

in Switzerland 

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Special Stamp Europa 

Stopping for a bite at the Post? A close look 

at Swiss gastronomy 

You’ll find a delicious risotto at the 

“Della Posta” in Ronco, Surselvaner 

Capuns at the “Posta veglia” in Laax, 

a Rifferswiler Schüblig from its own 

butcher’s at the “Zur Post” restaurant 

in Rifferswil, or perhaps you’d prefer 

filets de perche at the “Le Relais de 

la Poste” in Grandvaux? But, if you’re 

looking for a meal on your travels, 

you’re more likely to land in a 

“Bahnhöfli” or “Rössli” as the 250 

restaurants with “Post” in their name 

are only the third most common 

among Swiss-German hostelries. 

And it wasn’t in a “Post”, but in “The 

Olive Shop” in Zurich that I met Suad 

Sadok, who was born in Istanbul (Turkey) 

in 1939. At his grandfather’s, a keen 

stamp collector, he discovered from 

scrutinizing stamps that coffee beans 

must come from Brazil. In 1961, with 

the money obtained partly from the sale 

of his stamp collection, he came to 

Switzerland. In Zurich, he worked his way 

up from being a porter at the erstwhile 

Hotel Carlton Elite to General Manager 

of Mövenpick Hotels Switzerland and 

later, as Chairman of the Board of the 

Swiss Restaurant Car Company, he made 

Swiss Railways’ restaurant cars a success 

again. In 1974, he obtained Swiss citizenship. 

Gastronomy and culinary delights 

have always played an important part 

in his life. So what does Suad Sadok 

think of Swiss gastronomy? 

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Eating culture: 

a fascinating coexistence 

When I first emerged from Zurich 

main station over forty years ago, “ I immediately felt at home, because I 

almost tripped over a magnificent display 

of sweet peppers, courgettes and other 

vegetables, just like in my homeland. 

I must admit I was a bit surprised not 

to have stumbled over chocolate and 

cheese, the culinary symbols of Switzerland 

beyond its borders. At the time, I 

couldn’t quite get it straight. 

So gastronomy – as seen in Switzerland, 

especially in recent years, and just 

about everywhere – can’t therefore be 

classified. In my experience, there is 

no such thing as a purely “Swiss gastronomy”. 

On the other hand, a unique and 

fascinating range of the most varied 

eating cultures has been grafted onto the 

roots of the honest local cuisine and 

wines. Given the culinary experiences 

which the newly mobile Swiss have 

gathered abroad, as well as the range 

of nationalities in Switzerland, this is 

actually not so surprising. 

Yet it still holds true that a foreigner, as 

I once was in Switzerland, can easily 

access Switzerland through its gastronomy, 

if he wants to and tries hard 

enough. The image of Switzerland 

reflected in its gastronomy, as I have seen 

it for years, contradicts all the stereotyped 

conceptions people may have 

about the Swiss in relation to their basic 

Further Information 

www.gastrofacts.ch (Trade portal Gastronomy) 

www.schweizerkueche.ch 

www.tiscover.ch/postaalloggio («Della Posta») 

www.poestlilaax.ch 

www.post-rifferswil.ch 

www.relais-de-la-poste.ch 

www.carlton-zuerich.ch 

www.the-olive-shop.com

Suad Sadok (right) 

toasts the special stamp 

with the Manager of 

the “Carlton”. Culinary 

delicacies freshly prepared 

(picture on right). 

Photos: Marc Weiss 

conservatism, lack of creativity or their 

timidity in dealing with other cultures 

and customs. At the same time, however, 

it confirms the traditional values which 

also make up the image of Switzerland: 

punctuality (pub closing times, where 

they still exist, are still a bit like the 

departure time of a mainline train), 

sound, but sometimes a bit rigid, good 

but expensive. Gastronomy as the best 

of all worlds in Switzerland? Hardly. 

But it will undoubtedly be a world, 

which, despite all the necessary changes, 

will, over the next few decades, remain 

a constant in an economy that 

will continue to be unsettled. 

” 

Cross-border influences 

Annette Maïga, the Bernese graphic 

artist who designed this year’s Europa 

stamp, wants to bring out the quality 

of Swiss gastronomy with its cross-border 

influences – delectable cuisine should 

delight and pamper the guest. A festively 

decorated table plays an equally 

important part in setting out on a 

culinary journey of discovery in pleasant 

surroundings, if a meal is to be a sensual 

experience. 

Each country has its own culinary 

specialities which are just waiting to be 

discovered and enjoyed. So why not 

allow ourselves to be surprised by 

Ticinese, Grisons or delicacies from other 

countries and regions! Buon appetito, 

bien appetit, bon appétit, guten Appetit! 



Post offices: while stocks last 

Philatelic 

salespoints: until 30.6.2006 










Sizes: 

Stamps: 40�32.5 mm 

Sheet: 195�160 mm 



brightener, matt gummed, 

110 gm 2 

Perforation: 12 3 ⁄4:13 1 ⁄4 

First-day 



Designer: Annette Maïga, 

Konolfingen 

Authors: Gregory Schick (Swiss Post) in conversation with Suad Sadok – including excerpts from Sadok’s article 

“Die Schweizer Gastronomie – aus nahegehender Distanz betrachtet” (Swiss gastronomy – an objective view 

from close-up), which appeared in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”. With his partner, Suad Sadok now manages a 

shop specializing in olives and olive oils, which he helped to set up, and is, among other things, Chairman of 

the Board of elvetino AG (Swiss Railways’ restaurant car service). 

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Special Stamps Felix the Bunny 

His letters from all over the world fill entire books 

Felix is soft and cuddly, has long 

ears and hops through town 

and country at any time, not just 

Easter. This bunny is extremely 

adventurous, travels widely and 

writes lots of interesting letters 

that fill entire books. It is really no 

exaggeration to say that fluffy 

Felix is an international celebrity – 

who is now to star on stamps for 

the first time. 

It all began in 1994. Children’s book 

author Annette Langen and illustrator 

Constanza Droop brought the cuddly 

bunny with the itchy feet, together with 

his girlfriend Sophie, to life in their first 

joint book “Briefe von Felix” (Letters 

from Felix), published by Coppenrath- 

Verlag. His first trip took Felix to the big 

cities of London, Paris, Rome, Cairo 

and New York, and he recounted his 

adventures to his girlfriend back home 

in a steady flow of letters. Writing about 

London, he mentions a big palace with 

a lot of men in funny hats standing in 

front of it, and in Paris he writes that the 

bread is as long as a broom-handle, and 

that men play with iron balls in the park. 

From Africa, he reports about striped 

horses, called zebras, and in New York he 

was greatly impressed by a green figure 

as big as a house in a long dress and 

holding a torch. 

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Felix – educational, but not 

didactic 

Back home, the eight-year-old girl 

follows the travels of her beloved bunny 

and learns a lot about the sights, 

customs and traditions of each country. 

Educational fun for readers young 

and old! The humorous and informative 

letters are an integral part of the 

books. The envelopes stuck into the 

books contain “real”, prettily decorated 

letters. And some of them also include 

a surprise, which makes for twice as 

much fun.

Wherever and 

however Felix 

travels, he writes 

letters to his 

girlfriend Sophie. 

Since February 2005, Felix has even 

been a movie star, thrilling cinema 

audiences in Switzerland and abroad 

with his adventures. 

Felix in Switzerland 

But even in miniature, the bunny cuts a 

fine figure! From 10 May, Felix will 

appear on two colourful stamps in 

Switzerland. Accompanied by goats, he 

wanders in traditional costume through 

the charming landscape of Appenzell 

in Eastern Switzerland, a picturesque 

region with isolated farms nestling 

among gentle hills. And then he’s sailing 

on the back of a proud swan over the 

blue water of Lake Geneva to Chillon 

Castle near Montreux. The castle, built 

on a rocky island with its high walls 

towering skyward, was once the summer 

residence of the Counts of Savoy. And, 

since a visit to Switzerland has to 

include a trip to dizzying heights, Felix, 

complete with his trademark checked 

rucksack, rides a chairlift to a mountain 

top with a wonderful panorama, where 

he blows with bulging cheeks into a 

long alphorn. 

The amusing motifs “Appenzellerland” 

and “Chillon Castle” were specially 

drawn by Constanza Droop for the 

Swiss stamps. “Felix and the Alphorn” 

on the first-day cover and the picture 

postcard are also her work. The freelance 

illustrator lives with her family in 

Germany and regularly spends her 

holidays in Switzerland. In addition to 

the Felix books, she also draws the 

delightful bunny for all kinds of useful 

and decorative articles. These superior 

products retail under the “Die Spiegelburg” 

label. 

Writing letters 

One terrific effect is that Felix helps 

people discover the pleasure of writing 

letters. Who doesn’t like finding a 

cheery envelope in the letter-box in the 

morning? Where does the foreign stamp 

come from? One thing is for sure! With 

Felix on the envelope or paper, only 

special, personal letters will be sent. 

And that’s why there is great anticipation 

ahead of Felix’s seventh book “Spannende 

Briefe von Felix” (Exciting letters 

from Felix), out this autumn. 

May Felix never run out of places to go 

to, and may his marvellous letters never 

end. Maybe he’ll find his way to you 

tomorrow – on a stamp! 




Philatelic 











Sizes: 

Stamps: 40�32.5 mm 

Sheet: 195�160 mm 



brightener, matt gummed, 

110 gm 2 

Perforation: 13:13 1 ⁄4 

First-day 



Designer: Constanza Droop, Germany 

Author: Claudia Baumgartner, 


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Picture Postcard 

Felix the Bunny in the mountains of Switzerland 

Felix visits his friends: Children’s 

afternoon in the Glattzentrum 

The two stamps with the Felix motifs 

go on sale for the first time on 27 April 

2005. To celebrate this event, we’re 

inviting all Felix fans, big and small, to 

spend a fun- and story-filled afternoon 

with the bunny. Felix will be near enough 

to touch, and Jolanda Steiner, the 

well-known story-teller, has lots of tales 

to recount about the much-travelled 

little rabbit. 

There will, of course, be plenty of other 

attractions and activities, but we’re not 

going to reveal them yet. One thing’s 

for sure – if you want to meet Felix, 

you’d better set aside the afternoon of 

Wednesday, 27 April. 

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When: Wednesday afternoon, 

27 April 2005 

From 1.30 pm to 5 pm 

Where: Glattzentrum in Wallisellen, 

Lüthy Bookshop 

Admission: free 

Felix stories: by Jolanda Steiner at 

2, 3 and 4 pm 

How to get there: By private car: 

A1 Zurich-Winterthur, 

Exit Wallisellen 

Public transport: 

� Bus (94/759/787): 

Stop right in front of the 

Glattzentrum 

� Tram (9): 

Altried stop, 3-minute walk 

� Suburban train (S8 or S14): 

Wallisellen station, 

7-minute walk 

Information: from 4 April at: 

www.swisspost.ch («Stamps») 

www.buchhaus.ch 

at the post office or at Lüthy 

Bookshop in the Glattzentrum 



Post offices: not available 

Philatelic 




Printing: offset 

Sizes: 

Card: 148�105 mm 

Imprinted stamp: 38�30 mm 

Paper: white offset board 

260 gm 2 

First-day 


Designer: Constanza Droop, Germany 

Felix scales dizzy heights. 

Constanza Droop, Felix’s creator, lives 

with her husband and two children in Münster, 

Germany. 

Illustrations and photo: 

© Coppenrath Verlag, Münster (Germany)

Felix 

Gifts with real appeal 

Day after day, Felix accompanies thousands of 

children on their way to school, in their leisure 

time and when they are playing. Both boys 

and girls love him. From the vast assortment, we 

have selected three articles to do with writing 

letters. The products are very attractively designed 

and of proven good quality. 

Book “Weltbeste Briefe von Felix” 

(Felix: The world’s best letters) 

The little bunny flies around the world. Felix travels in his case 

from Berlin to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, encounters 

tigers in India, plays tangram in China, and writes from Mexico 

about chocolate that grows on trees. He gets back home 

from the gigantic swamps of Florida just in time for Sophie’s 

birthday. Colourful, educational and recommendable! 

Size: 21.5�21.5 mm, Article No. 1051 901 (only available in German), 

40 pages and 6 letters 


And of course… the Felix stamps 

You’re sure of the addressee’s full attention if you stick the 

attractive special-size Felix stamps on your letters. Sheets of 

16 stamps. Get them now! 

Prices: CHF 13.60 per sheet of CHF 0.85 stamps 

CHF 16.00 per sheet of CHF 1.00 stamps 

For details and orders, see New Products and order form 

or under www.swisspost.ch/philashop. 

Notepaper set 

A cheery, colourful set! The folder made of laminated paperboard 

contains 20 sheets of notepaper with two different Felix 

designs, matching envelopes and five delightful illustrated 

cards. That way, writing letters is even more fun. 

Sizes: Notepaper in A4 format and illustrated cards A6, Article No. 1051 900 


Game “Felix sends the mail” 

Felix has brought a few ideas back from his many travels on 

how to play the well-known board game “Ludo” in a slightly 

different way. Here, it’s about letters that have to get into 

Sophie’s letter-box as fast as possible. But all sorts of things can 

happen to the letters on the way… Dice and letters/counters 

are made of wood, nicely finished and solid. Have fun! 

For 2 to 4 players from 5 up, Article No. 1051 902 


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Special Stamp Zentrum Paul Klee Berne 

A dynamic monument with international appeal 

Zentrum Paul Klee. View of the main façade during construction work. Photos: Erwin Schenk, ZPK 

The Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne opens its doors on 20 June 2005 to art 

and culture lovers from all over the world. The focus will be on Paul Klee 

(1879–1940), one of the most important artists of the 20th century. The 

Zentrum, built by Renzo Piano, gives Paul Klee a dynamic monument with 

international appeal in the city where this German national spent fully 

half of his life. A good 40 percent of the nearly 10,000 paintings in his 

oeuvre, i.e. about 4000 oils, water-colours and drawings, as well as archives 

and biographical material, can be assembled in this new complex. 

Biography of Paul Klee 

1879 Born on 18 December in Münchenbuchsee 

near Berne as the second child of Hans and 

Ida Klee-Frick. 

1880 Family moved to Berne. 

1898 Passed his school-leaving certificate at the 

Paul Klee 

Berne Municipal Literarschule (a literary 

(Special stamp, 

secondary school). Studied in Munich 

1979) 

at Heinrich Knirr’s private drawing school, 

and later at the Munich Academy under 

Franz Stuck. 

1901 Study trip to Italy with the sculptor Hermann Haller. 

1906 Married pianist Lily Stumpf and moved to Munich. 

1907 Birth of son Felix Paul. 

1912 Second “Blue Rider” exhibition in Hans Goltz’s bookshop in Munich. 

Klee contributed 17 paintings. 

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The stamp shows two Paul Klee works, “Monument 

im Fruchtland” (Monument in Fertile 

Country, 1929) and “Breitohrclown” (Big-eared 

Clown, 1925), and the “Flying Carpet” computer 

drawing, symbolizing the architecture of the 

Zentrum Paul Klee. 

The Zentrum Paul Klee will not be a 

traditional art museum. The aim is for it 

to be a leading international competence 

centre focusing not just on research, 

but also communicating and presenting 

the person and the life and work of 

Paul Klee, as well as its impact. In relation 

to Paul Klee’s many-faceted artistic 

activity, the Zentrum will therefore not 

confine itself to showing Klee’s paintings, 

but will also be a platform for music, 

theatre, dance, literature and forms of 

artistic expression encompassing several 

genres. 

As he says himself, award-winning Italian 

architect Renzo Piano didn’t design a 

“normal building”. Intensive study of the 

complex commission and the terrain 

on the eastern outskirts of Berne gave 

1921 Began teaching at the Bauhaus and moved to Weimar. 

1924 On the initiative of Galka Scheyer, and together with Kandinsky, Feininger 

and Jawlensky, founded “The Blue Four” group, which exhibited mainly 

in the USA. 

1930 Professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. 

1933 The Nazis ordered a search of Klee’s apartment in Dessau. Instant dismissal 

by the new Nazi Director of the Dusseldorf Academy. Emigrated to Berne. 

1935 Indications of a serious illness, which is diagnosed as progressive 

sclerodermy. 

1937 “Degenerate Art” exhibition in Munich, including 17 of Klee’s paintings. 

Over 100 works by Klee were confiscated from German public 

collections. 

1938 Application for Swiss citizenship. The Swiss authorities did not reach a final 

decision during Klee’s lifetime. 

1940 Paul Klee died on 29 June in Sant’Agnese hospital in Locarno-Muralto.

him the idea of creating a generously 

proportioned oasis, from which the 

architecture rises in the form of three 

waves. This landscape sculpture as a 

whole will become a place of cultural 

pilgrimage. 

In addition to spacious exhibition halls, 

these curving hills of steel and glass 

contain a fully equipped music and 

function hall for the Zentrum’s own 

programmes and visiting ensembles, a 

children’s museum for four-year-olds and 

up, seeking an approach to art through 

their own creative activity, a multifunctional 

walkway with numerous 

communication devices (“Museum 

Street”) as well as plenary halls and 

seminar rooms with state-of-the-art 

equipment for national and international 

congresses. The visual arts, music, 

theatre, dance, literature, the theory 

of art and the presentation of art do 

not just exist side by side in the Zentrum 

Paul Klee, but are also intended to 

continually discover new forms of 

expression through their mutual interplay 

– for the greater pleasure of the 

public. 

Construction of the Zentrum Paul Klee 

was made possible by private benefactors, 

first and foremost Professor 

Maurice E. Müller and Martha Müller- 

Lüthi, as well as by partners from Bernese 

and Swiss Industry and the Berne 

Cantonal Lottery Fund. Operations are 

being subsidized by the public authorities 

– the Canton of Berne, the City of Berne 

and the Regional Cultural Conference – 

Photo: Adrian Weber, ZPK 

to the tune of 4,266,000 Swiss francs in 

all. The Berne Civic Community (BCC) 

supports the exceptional operations 

of the Zentrum with funds from the 

assets (20 million francs) of the BCC’s 

Paul Klee Foundation established specifically 

for this purpose. 

Information 


For further information about the Zentrum Paul Klee, 

see on the Internet under www.zpk.org. The opening 

programme will be published in spring 2005. 

Zentrum Paul Klee 

Monument im Fruchtland 3 

P O Box, 3000 Bern 31 

Tel. +41 (0)31 359 01 01, Fax +41 (0)31 359 01 02 

kontakt@zpk.org 

Voucher for <strong>Focus</strong> readers 

Welcome to the Zentrum Paul Klee. 




Philatelic 











Sizes: 


Sheetlet: 192�95 mm 




110 gm 2 

Perforation: 13 1 ⁄2 

First-day 


Designer: Claudia Bernet, Berne 

Author: Ursina Barandun, 

Head of Communication 

and Public Relations 

Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne 

Please present this voucher (the original, not a photocopy) at the cash desk, 

and admission will cost only: 

Collection and rotating Adults CHF 12.00 instead of 16.00 

exhibition: Children (6–16) CHF 6.00 instead of 8.00 

No reductions for groups 

Only 1 voucher per person. 

This special offer is valid as follows: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

from 1 November 2005 up to and including 30 April 2006. 

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✁

Special Stamp Football for the visually impaired 

The Euro 2008 football championship 

on the philatelic horizon 

More than half a century after the 

1954 world football finals, Switzerland 

again takes centre stage as 

the organizer of a major football 

event. 

Switzerland will partner Austria in 

organizing the 13th European Football 

Championships in 2008. The two 

countries will split the 31 matches to 

be played between 7 and 29 June 2008 

on a 15 to 16 basis. Belgium and the 

Netherlands set a precedent for successful 

two-country organization of the event 

when they hosted it in 2000. 

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A four-piece football 

jigsaw 

Swiss Post is tackling the topic in four 

phases, starting in 2005. The whole is 

arranged as a jigsaw puzzle. When 

assembled, the four “pieces”, make up 

a picture of a football, measuring 

about 35 square centimetres. But the 

individual pieces don’t just show leather 

and seams – they include pictures of 

the four types of soccer: 

� 2005 Football for the visually impaired 

� 2006 Youth football 

� 2007 Women’s football 

� 2008 Men’s football 

The four-stamp set is being launched 

with the usual spring stamp issue in 2005 

(10 May), and is scheduled to close with 

the last issue one month prior to the 

Euro 2008 kick-off at Berne’s Wankdorf 

Stadium on 7 June 2008. The Euro 2008 

jigsaw puzzle – or mosaic, whichever 

way you want to look at it – is sure to be 

a “must” for all collectors of sports 

stamps. In fact, we wonder whether 

these four issues might not provide the 

inspiration for starting a football stamp 

collection, because designs featuring 

this attractive sport will be further 

spotlighted at international level with 

the 2006 World Football Championships 

in Germany. 

2002 Rio de Janeiro 

World Football 

Championship for the 

Visually Impaired: 

Right, the game 

between Brazil and 

Argentina, and below 

left, Spain v. Brazil. 

Photos: IBSA, Madrid 

Fans of the Swiss national football team 

under manager Köbi Kuhn will also no 

doubt be among the collectors of the 

new stamps. As organizers of Euro 2008, 

neither Switzerland nor Austria have 

to worry about qualifying for the event – 

they do so automatically – but they 

will have to battle for a place in the 2006 

World Football Championships, like all 

the rest. 

Stamp with football for 

the visually impaired 

Most people are probably not aware 

that the wide range of sports for the 

disabled also includes football. Obviously, 

blind people can’t play football, but 

visually impaired, football-loving sportsmen 

can, despite their greatly reduced 

vision. At the moment, there are 

admittedly not many leagues, but in 

recent years the sport has spread 

throughout the world, and several 

European and World Championships 

have already been held: Euro 1997 in

Barcelona, 1999 in Porto, 2001 in Paris, 

2003 in Manchester, 1998 World 

Championship in Campinas (Brazil), 2000 

in Jerez (Spain), 2002 in Rio de Janeiro, 

plus 2004 in England. And in the 2004 

Paralympics in Athens, there was an 

Olympic champion in this discipline for 

the first time. As in top-class soccer, two 

of the best-known footballing countries 

met in the final, with Brazil beating 

Argentina 3–2 on penalties when the 

Sheetlet 

game ended 0–0 after going into extra 

time. 

How do the visually impaired play football? 

They play five-a-side on a small 

field. The goalkeeper is fully sighted, 

while the team coach stands behind the 

goal, from where he is allowed to shout 

instructions to the forwards. 




Philatelic 











Sizes: 


Sheetlet: 192�95 mm 




110 gm 2 

Perforation: 13 1 ⁄2 

First-day 



Designer: Pierre Castella, Fribourg 

Author: Walter Wehrle, Wallisellen 

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Stamp Booklet 


Following the two stamp booklets 

by Bernadette Baltis with ladybirds 

and clover leaves, the “Congratulations” 

series for marking happy 

events is being continued with 

stamps by a new designer. The stamp 

booklet in the same format as its 

two predecessors takes a new look 

at the design of the stamps as well as 

at the form of the label. 

Sandra Schlapbach, the designer of the 

stamp booklet, has interpreted the 

“Congratulations” theme in a unique 

way – the merrily dancing yellow 

butterflies symbolizing freedom and the 

joys of life are intended to speed many 

happy wishes into letter-boxes. And 

the sun’s rays add a complementary 

touch of warmth. 

“Subjective well-being” 

But what does it mean to be happy? 

Happiness is both a feeling and a 

condition a person finds himself in. 

Being happy is characterized by a general 

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and often unconscious sense of wellbeing. 

What counts with these feelings 

is not objective facts but the subjective 

perception, so scientists studying 

the phenomenon of happiness prefer the 

term “subjective well-being”. Psychologists 

define happiness, among other 

things, as the feeling of the absolute 

harmony of our consciousness or as “the 

continuing perception of one’s own life 

as fulfilled, meaningful and pleasant” 

(David Myers). 

One is tempted to believe that well-being 

depends to a large extent on external 

circumstances, above all material values 

and money. However, studies show that 

happiness can be bought only to a 

limited extent. Even the philosophers of 

the ancient world disagreed on this 

matter; some believed that happiness 

consisted of sensuality and pleasure, 

while others saw it as the result of 

abstemiousness and frugality. 

Dopamine, serotonin 

and endorphins 

From a medical and/or neurobiological 

point of view, it is the neurotransmitters 

dopamine und serotonin which are 

involved in the positive feelings. The body

Happiness – an 

indescribable 

awareness of life. 

Photo: 

Dynamic Graphics 

produces these neurotransmitters in 

many different situations. They are 

responsible for nerve cells sending the 

“feel-good” message to the brain. In 

this state of happiness, the body can 

release other hormones such as oxytocin 

and its own drugs – the so-called 

endorphins, which trigger relaxation 

and produce a feeling of bliss. 

Sending happiness 

Use this stamp for all kinds of good 

wishes to bring a little happiness or 

provide a bit of pleasure. The stamp is 

suitable for celebrations such as 

weddings, baptisms and birthdays, as 

well as for personal get-well-soon 

messages or good-luck missives prior to 

exams. In addition to the ten stamps, 

each booklet contains labels with 

symbols which can be placed straight or 

slanting next to the stamp, used to 

close the envelope like a seal or as 

an unusual letterhead. Give your imagination 

free rein and redouble the impact 

of your message! 




Philatelic 








Printing: Flexodruck, 4-colour; 

Permapack AG, Switzerland 

Sizes: 


Booklet 

open: 210�210 mm 

Booklet 

closed: 105�210 mm 

Paper: White stamp paper, 

self-adhesive, 

on backing paper, 

200 gm 2 

Perforation: none, 

lateral serpentine cut 

First-day 


Designer: Sandra Schlapbach, Berne 

Author: Gregory Schick, 

Swiss Post, 

Berne 


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Postcards 

A message-medium used by millions 

Despite E-mail, SMS, telephonevoting 

and E-voting, the supremely 

practical, traditional postcard has 

lost none of its popularity and still 

has its assured position in everyday 

life. Swiss Post’s latest postcards 

have been designed by a worldfamous 

Swiss: Adrian Frutiger, who 

collaborated with Kurt Wälti on 

the design. 

Sales: from 10.5.2005 

until further notice 

Post offices: until further notice 

Philatelic 

salespoints: until further notice 



Printing: Offset, 5-colour 

Sizes: 

Card: 148�105 mm 

Imprinted stamp: 33�28 mm 

Paper: bright white offset board, 

170 gm 2 

First-day 


Designer: Adrian Frutiger, Bremgarten BE 

Authors: Adrian Frutiger and Kurt Wälti; 

Peter Walther, 


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Alert to customer needs 

The postcards now have a DataMatrix barcode 

printed on the right, next to the actual stamp. This 

barcode is an encrypted two-dimensional data set 

that is read during sorting at Swiss Post facilities. So, 

in future, we shall be able to tell how many postcards 

of which set were used by customers and 

when. This information will help us to gear our 

products even better to customer needs.

Light and space 

in print 

Readers have absorbed the classical 

shapes of letters millions of times, as 

matrices registered in the sub-conscious. 

Within the pattern, there is a frame- 

Adrian Frutiger: 

Creator of countless fonts 

Adrian Frutiger was born on 24 May 

1928 in Unterseen near Interlaken in 

Switzerland. After his schooling, he 

worked as an apprentice typesetter at 

the Otto Schlaefli AG printing works 

in Interlaken from 1944 to 1948. He then 

attended the Applied Arts School in 

Zurich for three years before moving to 

Paris in 1952 where he became artistic 

director at the Deberny & Peignot letter 

foundry. After ten years of successful 

work, he struck out on his own, founding 

a graphic workshop in Arcueil 

near Paris together with André Gürtler 

and Bruno Pfäffli. 

Besides a large number of fonts, which 

have since become known throughout 

the world, he created publisher’s marks, 

logos, house fonts and corporate images 

for various publishers and companies. 

For instance, he designed a new signage 

system for Charles de Gaulle airport, 

which developed into the “Frutiger” 

font. Swiss Post was the first enterprise 

in Switzerland to use this font – first for 

work forged in five hundred years of 

printing books and newspapers. This 

framework is engraved in the reader’s 

memory like a keyhole. The letter we 

read is like a key that seeks and finds its 

hole. If the font-designer’s imagination 

the postbus service and later as the 

house font for the whole enterprise. If 

you drive through Switzerland today, 

you can read signs in what may well be 

Frutiger’s best-known font at every post 

office and along the motorways. 

His OCR-B standard font for automated 

reading became the international 

standard in 1973. Adrian Frutiger taught 

for ten years at the Ecole Estienne in 

Paris and at the same time gave many 

lectures in all parts of the world. From 

1963 to 1981, he was responsible for the 

design and adaptation of typewriter and 

composer fonts with IBM World Trade. 

In 1968, Adrian Frutiger became a 

consultant with D. Stempel AG in 

Frankfurt am Main and hence with its 

successor companies, such as Mergenthalter 

Linotype, Linotype-Hell and what 

is now the Heidelberg-Tochter Linotype 

Library in Bad Homburg, for whom 

Adrian Frutiger has now been a font 

designer for over 30 years. During this 

period, fonts such as Centennial, 

Versailles, Frutiger, Avenir, Vectora and 

many others were created. 

diverges from the basic form, this causes 

friction, frustration or illegibility. 

The letters of our alphabet are built on 

two basic principles. The dark lines mark 

the limits of the internal and external 

area of the individual letters. Through the 

open spaces, light illuminates the letters 

and the words. This is the only way the 

word can be recognized. Clearly readable 

print contains the secret of striking a 

balance between light and dark. 

In the two stamps, the internal areas 

and spaces of the letters A and B have 

been dismantled into their separate parts 

and made visible as individual components, 

which are placed in the background 

as playful elements. Light floods 

through the white surfaces giving the 

stamps a luminous quality. 

Adrian Frutiger Photo: zvg 

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WebStamp – Use your own PC to frank letters! 

From PC franking to “WebStamp” 

The intensive PC-franking test phase 

received an enthusiastic thumbs-up 

evaluation. So, as of 15 February 

2005, Swiss Post has been offering 

a product that takes PC franking 

a step further, under the name of 

“WebStamp”. 

WebStamp is just one of several franking 

solutions offered by PostMail. With 

WebStamp software, you can print a 

digital prepayment imprint in the form 

of a forgery-proof datamatrix code for 

franking domestic letters and parcels as 

well as international letters, direct from 

the Internet. This franking method is 

particularly suitable for companies, small 

and medium-sized businesses, clubs, 

organizations and anybody who regularly 

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sends out larger quantities of letters 

and information. 

Any commercially available PC (not 

Macintosh) can be used for “WebStamp” 

franking which can be printed out 

direct on sheets of paper, envelopes and 

labels using Microsoft Word and Excel 

programs and inkjet or laser printers. 

No special know-how is needed to install 

or use this software, but a franking 

credit has first to be set up. Billing is then 

done automatically via the customer’s 

Swiss Post Yellow Account. The built-in 

franking log makes it possible to keep 

track of what was franked when and 

with how much. The annual licence 

fee for using the WebStamp software is 

90 CHF, but a special introductory rate 

of 60 CHF applies until the end of 2005. 

Franking series 

of letters 

with WebStamp 

Photos: Gregory Schick 

Attractive options for collectors 

The exclusive Swiss Post Stamps and Philately offer is designed 

to document the exciting collection field of postal automation 

which was launched as early as 2002 with an initial pilot test. 

The new product consists of a C6 format cover featuring 

the datamatrix code and the date 15.2.2005, the day on which 

this product was officially introduced. The covers are addressed 

to Swiss Post’s Stamps and Philately Unit in Berne. As the postal 

payment imprint is valid only for the corresponding type of 

item and the recipient’s address, each cover is totally unique. 

Once printed, this WebStamp is valid as prepayment and will 

not be cancelled. 

Besides the A- and B (priority and non-priority) items, which 

are only available as a set (CHF 3.65), the products on offer 

include a “Lettre Signature” (CHF 5.90) and the special cover 

with no mention of indicia (CHF 0.90). 

Current stamps which are valid for prepayment, special issues and philatelic 

items can be ordered at any time by collectors and letter-writers from Swiss Post’s 

popular on-line stamp shop – www.swisspost.ch/philashop.

WebStamp comprises the following components: 

This is what 

a WebStamp label 

looks like. 

Swiss Post logo: The well-known logo makes for fast item identification. 

Place of posting: Locality (post office), where the items were posted. 

Licence number: The sender is clearly identifiable from the licence number. 

Designation of product: Selected product, for instance “A STANDARD” (priority mail). 

Franking value: Indication of the appropriate postage for that item. 

Date of posting: Chosen date of posting. 

Datamatrix code: A printed value imprint containing coded information about the sender, as well 

as information about the letter 

Recipient’s address: The address input for the item recipient 




Post offices: no sales 

Philatelic 


Standing orders These products are not 

and available as standing orders and 

Year products: will not feature in the Year Set 

or in the 2005 Year Book. 

They therefore have to be 

ordered separately 

Printing: Laser printer 

Labels: Format No. 3659, 

97�42.3 mm 

WebStamp Swiss Post 

software: PostMail 

Franking Service Centre 

P. O. Box 2634 

6002 Lucerne 

ccc.postmail@post.ch 

www.postmail.ch/webstamp 

Cover Katharina Hochecker and 

design: Marc Weiss, WCD, Biel/Bienne 

Author: Gregory Schick, 


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Speaking for Ourselves 

Drawing competition: No lack of up-and-coming designers 

Members of the jury judging the schoolchildren’s drawing 

competition faced a difficult but very rewarding task at the 

Limmattalphila stamp exhibition on 10 December 2004. 

131 schoolchildren aged from 9 to 14 had put their ideas for 

a stamp on the theme of “Energy” on paper. The jury’s 

1st place (9–10 year-olds): 

Ramon Grau, Dietikon 

<strong>Focus</strong> Competition: These are the lucky winners 

Fifty <strong>Focus</strong> readers have something to 

celebrate after winning great prizes 

in our big Christmas competition! The 

first prize – a voucher worth CHF 1500 

for holidays in the beautiful Grisons 

region – goes to Sabine Schwedt-Brunner 

from Zurich. 

The competition launched in <strong>Focus</strong> 

4/2004 prompted 7103 readers to 

enter – and 92 percent of the answers 

were right (correct number: 7769). We 

counted all the answers as correct, where 

the four correct numbers for the four 

questions had been found but not added 

together. A total of 6516 cards therefore 

went into the final draw which was 

made by the two ladies in Swiss Post’s 

Marketing Secretariat. The 50 winners 

have already received their prizes. Many 

thanks to all those who took part, 

and the best of luck in the next competition 

for all those who did not win 

this time! 

1st to 3rd prize (Voucher for holidays 

in the Grisons) 

CHF 1500.–: Sabine Schwedt-Brunner, Zurich 

CHF 1000.–: Günter Sievers, Bochum (Germany) 

CHF 500.–: Hans Rudolf Scheidegger, Grünenmatt 

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Joèlle Felix, Dietikon 

4th to 10th prize (1 book “Philately, a hundred 

times”) 

Ariane Jacot, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Werner Giesser, 

Reinach; Jürgen Hlawenka, Zurich; Burkhard Binder, 

Hamburg (Germany); Rolf Büder, Dresden (Germany); 

Christiane Hildebrand, Berne; Emilie Varin, Montsevelier. 

11th to 20th prize (1 gift voucher CHF 15.00) 

Heinz Hoffmanns, Essen (Germany); Jean-Marie 

Avezou, Brussels (Belgium); Paul Bardell, Sault Ste- 

Marie, Ontario (Canada); Clodette Gainon, Feschesle 

Chatel (France); Daniel Luthi, Aubonne; Manuel 

Ebermann, Chateauroux (France); Régina Paillard, 

Savagnier; Lydia von Arx, Egerkingen; Karin Wehrli, 

Herznach; Elvira Baldinger, Leuggern. 

21st to 50th prize (1 surprise gift) 

Laura Pralong, Sion; Veronika Bandi-Zingg, Münchenbuchsee; 

André Weil, Paris (France); Laurent Dupraz, 

Founex; Cindy Steib, Coppet; Angela Schmid, 

Seuzach; Günther Freisburger, Bockhorn (Germany); 

Silvia Conti, Porto Ceresio/VA (Italy), Rita Langenauer, 

Frauenfeld; Rudi Ehrlenspiel, Kempten (Germany); 

Katia Signoud, Perrignier (France); Madeleine Inglin, 

Lachen; W. und A. Conzett-Fink, Basel; Gabriella 

Dällenbach, Schlieren; Katharina Moser, Zurich; 

Hedy Scherrer, Andwil; Rosi Dissler, Jona; Danièle 

Venanzi, Rolle; Luca Milesi, Arbedo; Alois Lindauer, 

Einsiedeln; Beda Eduard Bader, Aesch BL; Ruth und 

Paul Krähenbühl-Mötteli, Winterthur; Doris Schulze, 

Niederöderwitz (Germany); Kurt Köcher, Ottobrunn 

(Germany); Enzo Arcangeli, Milan (Italy); Meieli 

Gerber, Meikirch; Claire Vetter, Geneva; Bernadette 

Isenschmid, Willisau; Helmut Grupp, Lauingen 

(Germany); Franz Landolt, Näfels. 

challenge was to pick out the best in the three age groups 

9–10, 11–12 and 13–14 year-olds. All the artworks submitted 

were excellent, so a big “Thank you!” goes to the creative 

schoolchildren and hearty congratulations to the winners! 


Stefanie Baumann, Urdorf 

What does “Philately” actually mean? 

The word has nothing to do with collecting 

colourful postage stamps. Translated 

word for word, it means “Friend of 

exemption from payment” – from the 

Greek philos = friend and ateleia = 

tax free or franked. It was first used in 

a newspaper article in 1864. 

However, people had been looking for 

an appropriate scientific term for some 

time before that. Proposals included 

strange labels such as “epistolofrankomarkomanie”, 

timbrophily or timbrology. 

Nowadays, people who busy themselves 

intensively with stamp collecting are 

known as philatelists. Philatelists know 

the background to their stamps, the 

stories centred around them, and their 

special features. 

Looked at from that point of view, 

another definition of philately could 

apply: “Love without end”, from the 

Greek phil = love, a = without and 

ielos = end. 

Source: www.scoutphila.com/online/magazin

Single frame first-time show at Limmattalphila 04 in Dietikon 

Interest in this new-type exhibition class 

remained high at Dietikon too. Free, 

for once, from rules and regulations, 

exhibitors were able to show part of their 

stamp collections in their own idiosyncratic 

way, with the chance of winning 

an attractive prize. And quite a number 

of stamp collectors again seized the 

opportunity. The celebrity jury had the 

gratifying but challenging remit of 

picking the three top-prize winners and 

17 consolation-prize winners from 

among 74 exhibitors. 

The proud winners of the top prizes 

were: 

1st place: Emil Wolleb, Döttingen 

Theme “Calligraphic Philately” 

Travel voucher worth CHF 1500.– 

2nd place: Hans Glanzmann, Nottwil 

No theme mentioned 


3rd place: Rolf Berchner, Starrkirch-Will 

Theme “Rolf Knie – Viva Circus” 


Consolation prizes in the form of a 2004 stamp 

yearbook go to: 

Walter Baumberger, Zollikerberg; Hildegard Bücheler, 

Widnau; Ernst Gächter, Spiegel near Berne; Max 

Gisler, Sins; Heinz Hauck, Wollerau; Andreas 

Hostettler, Muri AG; Reinhold Huber, Trimbach; 

Werner Joos, Oberwinterthur, Eva Kramer-Balmer, 

Greng; Peter Lauper, Hägendorf; Nicolas Pahud, 

Henniez; Peter Paravicini, Poschiavo; Beat Sägesser, 

Thalwil; Ciaffi Virgina Spehrs, Sion; Fam. Stucki- 

Benninger, Lausen; Elisabeth Wiederkehr-Brunner, 

Fahrweid. 

PhilaShop: Paying made easy Change in the <strong>Focus</strong> team 

Swiss Post’s philately online shop has 

become a firm favourite for ordering 

stamps and other products. Improvements 

are constantly being made to 

optimize the ordering process, and now 

the Yellowpay payment module has 

been introduced, providing a simpler and 

faster purchasing method. Just a few 

clicks and your payment is concluded via 

a secure connection (www.swisspost.ch/ 

philashop). 

The celebrity jury of Dietikon (from left to right): Beat Kehrli, stamp designer; Lucrezia Meier-Schatz, 

National Councillor and member of the Swiss Post Board; Heinz Däpp, satirical comedian on Swiss 

German Radio; Hans Bohnenblust, Mayor of Dietikon; Kurt Zurfluh, Swiss-German TV announcer. 

Photo: Peter Walther 

Would you like to have a go at a firsttime 

show? No problem! Your next 

chance will be at Meyrinphila 05, from 

2 to 4 December. The registration form 

is enclosed with the Swiss edition of 

“<strong>Focus</strong>”. Don’t be shy! All that’s needed 

is imagination and originality. There 

are no rules and regulations and there’s 

no entry fee. 

For ten years, Renzo Lorenzetti was 

responsible for “<strong>Focus</strong> on stamps”, the 

collector’s magazine. He put tremendous 

commitment into building up and steadily 

developing this popular customer magazine. 

By the time he retired at the end of 

February 2005, 41 issues had appeared 

under his supervision. The new <strong>Focus</strong> editorial 

team takes this opportunity to thank 

him for all his work and to send him best 

wishes for this new chapter in his life. 

Imprint 

“<strong>Focus</strong> on stamps” is a free 

magazine, published in English, 

German, French and Italian. 

Published by: 

Swiss Post 

Stamps and Philately 

Ostermundigenstrasse 91 

3030 Berne (Switzerland) 

Total print run 

230 000 copies 

Sales and 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 2/2005 

Copy deadline: 21.2.2005 

Distribution: from 29.3.2005 

Stamp issue: 10.5.2005 

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