Sweden
swe-19690320-c-001
Cancel

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Occasion: 1969 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1969, Sweden
Belongs to cancel group 27

Cancel is 31 mm in diameter.

NOTE

JOHANNESHOV
20 3
1969
ISHOCKEY-VM

translated

JOHANNESHOV
20 3
1969
HOCKEY-VM

"JOHANNESHOV" is the neighborhood in Stockholm where the ice hockey stadium is located. "VM" stands for Varldsmasterskapen which translate to "World Championship".


Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXV

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

Sweden (1855-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 8,946,193 (1997 estimate). Constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, occupying the eastern portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula.