Switzerland
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Occasion: 1953 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1953, Switzerland
Cancel for the 1953 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships held in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland.
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EISHOCKEY- WELT-U.EUROPA- MEISTERSCHAFTEN 6.-15. MARZ 1953 BASEL | SCHWEIZ.AUTOMOBIL-POSTBUREAU -7.III.53-19 2 |
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ICE HOCKEY- WORLD AND EUROPE- CHAMPIONSHIPS 6.-15. MARCH 1953 BASEL | SWISS AUTOMOBILE POST OFFICE -7.III.53-19 2 |
Cancel banner is 40 mm x 20 mm. We have a picture of a 1939 Swiss Automobile Post Office here.
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.