Sharjah
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Occasion: 1968 Winter Olympics,1968,Grenoble,France
Width: 145 mm
Height: 110 mm
Perforation: Imperforate
Printing method: Lithographed
Catalog number:
Michel BL39
Minkus 306
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXVIII
Stamp ID = 3309
Ice hockey is in the overprinted border
HOCKEY
URSS
URSS
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.