Sharjah
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Occasion: 1968 Winter Olympics,1968,Grenoble,France
Width: 84 mm
Height: 115 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.00 x 12.00
Printing method: Offset
Catalog number:
Michel BL48A
Minkus 411
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXVIII
Stamp ID = 3310
Ice hockey is in the border design.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Sharjah (1963-72)
Stamp-issuing status: inactive. A sheikhdom in eastern Arabia on the Persian Gulf. One of the Trucial States under British protection from 1892-1971, Sharjah joined in the United Arab Emirates in 1971. During 1963-71, Sharjah issued a large number of colorful stamps and souvenir sheets, aimed at the collector market.