Austria
aus-19751229-c-001
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This cancel is 48 mm x 30 mm and it shows two hockey players scrimmaging for a puck. The date of the cancel is just before the opening of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and the test match was held to make sure that the stadium to be used for the ice hockey games would be adequate. The cancel says

EISHOCKEY
TESTBEWERBE
6010 INNSBRUCK 29.12.1975

translated

ICE HOCKEY
TEST MATCH
6010 INNSBRUCK 29.12.1975

Location: Ice Hockey Volume IV

From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Austria (1850-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 8,047,000 (1997).