18/01/2021

LIECHTENSTEIN


LIECHTENSTEIN.

Lanscapes.
Naafkopf and  Falknis mountains.   
Last stamp in a set of 5, issued on 23.07.1959.
Face value: 60 rappen of Swiss franc.
Design: Josef Seger (Austria, 1908-1998).
Engraving: Courvoisier S.A.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 927,665 copies.
Size: 26 x 36 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 382.
- Scott No. 342.
- StampWorld No. 389.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 381.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 347.
- Zumstein No. 331.

Naafkopf, also called Schneetälispitz, with an altitude of 2,571 m (8,430 ft) is a mountain in the Rätikon mountain range in the western central Alps. The summit, in the shape of a cross, is located exactly on the border between the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, the Swiss canton of Grisons and the southernmost part of the municipality of Schaan, in Liechtenstein.

Falknis is the westernmost peak of the Rätikon mountain range, in the western central Alps, with slopes in the Swiss canton of Grisons and in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Its altitude is 2,562 m (8,406 ft).

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