Switzerland
swi-19610312-c-001
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Occasion: 1961 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1961, Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland
Belongs to cancel group 45

Final day cancel for the 1961 World Ice Hockey Championship in Geneve, Swtizerland. The cancel is 32 mm in diameter.

NOTE

GENEVE 1961
MATCH
FINAL
12.3.61
CHAMPIONNATS DU MONDE DE HOCKEY SUR GLACE

translated

GENEVE 1961
MATCH
FINAL
12.3.61
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF ICE HOCKEY


Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXVII

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.