Equatorial Guinea
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Width: 46 mm
Height: 40 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.25
Catalog number:
Scott 7764
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLIX
Stamp ID = 6174
Although best know as a soccer goal keeper, Lev Yashin, was also an ice hockey goalie.
From Wikipedia
Yashin also played ice hockey (also as a goalkeeper) and he won the Soviet Cup in March 1953. He stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on his football career.
Stamp was issued for the 1978 FIFA World Cup held from June 1 through June 25, 1978, in Argentina.
Stamp shows Lev Yashin
Stamp shows Lev Yashin
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Equatorial Guinea (1968-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 442,516. A republic in the Gulf of Guinea, in West Africa, comprising the former Spanish colonies of Fernando Po and Rio Muni. Equatorial Guinea became independent Oct. 12, 1968. In 1972, Masie Ngeuma Biyogo became president for life. He ruled by terror, reviving slavery, killing some 50,000 people and driving tens of thousands more into exile. The United States suspended relations with the Biyogo government in 1976. The Soviet Union, China and North Korea maintained close relations, and Cuba maintained a military advisory mission in the country. On Aug. 5, 1979, Masie was overthrown, and a junta assumed power. The coup halted the production of vast numbers of brightly colored stamps (perfs, imperfs, souvenir sheets, gold-foil sheets) that were issued by Equatorial Guinea in the 1970s.