LIECHTENSTEIN

LIECHTENSTEIN.

Drei Schwestern (The Three Sisters) mountain located in the border of Liechtenstein and Austria.
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued on 17.12.1934.
Face value: 5 Rappen of Swiss franc.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 321,700 copies.
Size: 21 x 24 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 127.
- Scott No. 117.
- StampWorld No. 131.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 128.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 124.
- Zumstein No. 106y.

This small mountain group, whose maximum height reaches 2053 m (6,736 ft), is located east of the Principality of Liechtenstein, on the border between this country and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, to which the eastern slope belongs. It rises at the northwestern end of the Rätikon mountain range, in the central Alps. It is made up of three peaks: the Great Sister (2053 m), the Middle Sister (2048 m), and the Little Sister (2034 m). In 1976 the State of Vorarlberg declared the area of Drei Schwestern a protected landscape.

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Thanks to Tomás Lobo for his contribution.