Soviet Union
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Occasion: 1972 Winter Olympics,1972,Sapporo,Japan
Width: 65 mm
Height: 90 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.50 x 12.50
Printing method: Lithographed
Creative team:
E. Aniskin, Designer
Catalog number:
Scott 3961
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIII
Stamp ID = 3428
This is overprinted in black with (translated from the Russian)
THE SOVIET SPORTSMEN
HAVE WON
8 GOLD
MEDALS
5 SILVER
3 BRONZE
From Wikipedia "Postage stamps of the Soviet Union"
Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription Russian: "Почта СССР" ("Post of the USSR").