Czechoslovakia
cze-19470219-c-002
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Occasion: 1947 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1947, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Belongs to cancel group 15

There were 30 different cancels available throughout the 1947 World Ice Hockey tournament which ran from February 15 through February 24, 1947. One cancel for each day of the tournament along with three different identification labels: a , b and c. The cancel was in Czech, French and English. The cancel is 34 mm in diameter.

NOTE

PRAHA
AUTOPOSTA
19.II.1947
b
MISTROVSTVI SVETA V LEDNIM HOCKEYI
CHAMPIONNAT DU MONDE EN HOCKEY SUR GLACE
WORLD'S ICE-HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI

Miller, Rick. "Stamps show where the dead countries are buried." Linn's Stamp News 23 Dec. 2019: 16-17. Print.

Czechoslovakia (1918-93)
Czechoslovakia's first stamps were issued in 1918, and its last regular postage stamp was issued Dec. 18, 1992. In total Czechoslovakia issued almost 2,900 postage stamps, about 170 semipostal stamps, 93 airmal stamps, three special delivery stamps, three personal delivery stamps, more than 100 postage due stamps, 15 Official stamps, two local Official stamps and about 35 newspaper stamps.