Switzerland
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Occasion: 1953 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1953, Switzerland
Belongs to cancel group 40

Cancel for the 1953 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships held in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland.

NOTE

EISHOCKEY-
WELT-U.EUROPA-
MEISTERSCHAFTEN
6.-15. MARZ 1953
ZURICH
SCHWEIZ.AUTOMOBIL-POSTBUREAU
-15.III.53-17
2

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ICE HOCKEY-
WORLD AND EUROPE-
CHAMPIONSHIPS
6.-15. MARCH 1953
ZURICH
SWISS AUTOMOBILE POST OFFICE
-15.III.53-17
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.