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Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: September 15, 1979 Occasion: 4th National Games of China,1979,Beijing,China Width: 57 mm Height: 62 mm Perforation: Perforated 11.50 x 11.50 Catalog number: Scott 1497 Location: Ice Hockey Volume XXXIX Stamp ID = 4691 The ice hockey is in the border design of the souvenir sheet. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. China (1878-) Stamp-issuing status: (People's Republic) active, (Empire and Republic) inactive; Population: (People's Republic) 1,210,004,956, (Empire and Republic) 462,798,093 (1948). An ancient country occupying a large area in eastern Asia, between Turkestan and the China Sea and stretching from Siberia to Indochina. |