Australia
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Occasion: 2017 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,2017,Cologne & Paris,Germany & France
Width: 161 mm
Height: 113 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume II
Stamp ID = 7193
Fan made cachet featuring the French comic strip characters Asterix and Obelix who were also the mascots for the 2017 tournament. The cover also contains a non-Australian hockey stamp nig-19760220-s-001 from Niger.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Australia (1902-)
An island continent between the Pacific and Indian oceans, southeast of Asia. British settlement began in the late 18th century, with six colonies developing - New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Each of these states initially issued its own stamps. These colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia on Jan. 1, 1901, although each continued to issue its own stamps for a number of years.