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Just as the US Post Office sponsers a cycling team, the Swiss Post office sponsers an ice hockey team. Cancel banner is 40 mm x 20 mm.
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Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIX
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.