Czechia
czr-20050522-c-001
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Occasion: 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2005, Austria
The cancel is 36 mm by 29 mm. The Czech Republic won the Gold Medal in 2005. Do not understand the reference to FLATI KLUCI in the cancel. Best I can figure out that translate to the dog breed "flat coated retriever". Why should that be on a cancel showing a hockey goalie?
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MS V LEDNIM HOKEJI VIDEN
22.5.2005 PRAHA 1
FLATI KLUCI
22.5.2005 PRAHA 1
FLATI KLUCI
translates to
WORLD CHAMPIONS IN ICE HOCKEY VIENNA
22.5.2005 Prague 1
FLAT COATED RETRIEVERS
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI
22.5.2005 Prague 1
FLAT COATED RETRIEVERS
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Czech Republic (1993- )
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,318,958. A republic in central Europe, comprising the Czech portion of the former Czechoslovakia, corresponding to the historic Bohemia.