Mauritania
mau-19880918-s-001
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: September 18, 1988
Occasion: 1988 Winter Olympics,1988,Calgary,Canada
Width: 48 mm
Height: 35 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00
Catalog number:
     Scott C269
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXVII
Stamp ID = 3005

This ismau-19870918-s-001 overprinted in red with the name of the ice hockey Gold medal winner: USSR.

Medaille d'or
U.R.S.S.


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

Mauritania (1906-44, 1960-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 2,411,317. A republic in northwestern Africa, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean.