Soviet Union
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: May 12, 1988
Occasion: 1988 Winter Olympics,1988,Calgary,Canada
Width: 60 mm
Height: 78 mm
Perforation: Perforated 11.50 x 11.50
Printing method: Photogravure
Catalog number:
     Scott 5665
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXV
Stamp ID = 3485

This issov-19880104-w-001 overprinted in red with (translated from the Russian)

THE ATHLETES OF THE USSR HAVE WON
11 GOLD, 9 SILVER
AND 9 BRONZE MEDALS



From Wikipedia "Postage stamps of the Soviet Union"

Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription Russian: "Почта СССР" ("Post of the USSR").