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SWITZERLAND / SCHWEITZ - SUISSE - SVIZZERA - SVIZRA.

Swiss Alps.
Mount Matterhorn - Cervino - Cervin.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 01.06.1965.
Face value: 10 cents of Swiss franc.
Design: Edi Hauri (1911-1988).
Printed by Courvoisier-Attinger Arts Graphiques S.A., Biel/Bienne.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 10,057,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 820.
- Scott No. 467.
- StampWorld No. 814.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 586.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 753.
- Zumstein No. 433.

The Matterhorn; in Italian, Cervino; in French Cervin, is an isolated mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak whose summit is 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high. The mountain overlooks the Swiss town of Zermatt, in the canton of Valais, to the north-east and the Italian town of Breuil-Cervinia in the Aosta Valley to the south. The first ascent of the Matterhorn was in July 1865 from Zermatt by a party led by Edward Whymper; just three days later, on 17 July 1865, Jean-Antoine Carrel and Jean-Baptiste Bich reached the summit from the Italian side.