Brain Pickings

19 JANUARY, 2012

Gorgeous Vintage Swiss Stamps from the 1940s-1970s

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As if you needed another reason to love mid-century Swiss design, here are some gorgeous stamps from the collection of obsessive digital philatelist Karen Horton.

More of the Swiss postage design tradition can be found in Swiss Stamps, La Collection Suisse.

Thanks, Sarah + Alexis

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