Liechtenstein Post SEPAC – Historical Maps

LIECHTENSTEIN POST in 2021 issued a  first day cover stamp of SEPAC – Historical Maps. Liechtenstein’s contribution was the “Map of the Upper Rhine Valley” special stamp (face value: CHF 1.50). 

The selected motif represented on the stamp is from one of the oldest known maps of the Upper Rhine Valley. It was probably drawn around 1620 by Swiss cartographer and engineer Hans Conrad Gyger (1599-1674). The watercolour pen and ink drawing shows the catchment area of the Rhine between the Swiss districts of Altstätten and Bad Ragaz with the castles and palaces existing at that time.