Switzerland
swi-19390107-c-001
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Occasion: 1939 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1939, Zürich and Basel, Switzerland
Belongs to cancel group 35
idcancel = 803

The 1939 World Ice Hockey Championship was held in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, from February 3 through February 12, 1939. There was one common cancel banner used and it was used in numerous cities and two Automobil-Postbureau locations. Also the use of the cancel started well before the first day of the tournament, February 3. The banner size was 42 mm x 20 mm and the bullseye was 23 mm in diameter. The Automobil-Postbureau cancels did not have the banner but they were stamped in red or blue with the location.

NOTE

ZURICH 1
17 - 18
13 . I
1939
BRIEFVERSAND
WELT-u.EUROPA-
EISHOCKEY
MEISTERSCHAFT
BASEL - ZURICH
3 - 12.FEB 1939

translated

ZURICH 1
17 - 18
13 . I
1939
MAIL DELIVERY
WORLD AND EUROPEAN
ICE HOCKEY
CHAMPIONSHIP
BASEL - ZURICH
3 - 12.FEB 1939


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.