Antigua & Barbuda
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Occasion: 2006 Winter Olympics,2006,Turin,Italy
Width: 50 mm
Height: 37 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00
Printing method: Lithographed
Catalog number:
Scott 2879
Location: Ice Hockey Volume II
Stamp ID = 75
The phrase "White Olympics" was used for the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Antigua (1862-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 65,647 (1996). A state in association with Great Britain, comprising the island of Antigua and several smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, southeast of Puerto Rico. Under British rule since 1632, Antigua became a separate colony in 1956. In 1967 Antigua became self-governing and became the independent state of Antigua-Barbuda in 1981.