Czechoslovakia
cze-19780503-c-002
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Occasion: 1978 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1978, Czechoslovakia
Belongs to cancel group 13

There were 38 different cancels available throughout the tournament which ran from April 26 through May 14, 1978. One cancel for each day of the tournament along with two different locations: Praha 1 & Praha 72. The cancel was in Czech and the cancel is 30 mm in diameter.

NOTE

PRAHA 72
3.5.1978
MISTROVSTVI SVETA A EVROPY V LEDNIM HOCKEYI

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.