Switzerland
swi-19610000-z-002
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First day of issue: 1961
Occasion: 1961 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,1961,Geneva & Lausanne,Switzerland
Width: 105 mm
Height: 147 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXVII
Stamp ID = 3554

4 page souvenir booklet containing 1 copy of swi-19610000-s-001. The booklet has the First Day of Issue cancel on the cover along with the stamp. The other 3 pages are all blank.


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

Switzerland (1850-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 7,248,984 (1997 estimate). A land-locked federation in central Europe, situated between France, Germany, Austria and Italy. The country has three official languages: German, French and Italian.

In addition from Wikepedia
Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938, and as an official language in correspondence with Romansh-speaking citizens since 1996, along with German, French, and Italian.