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![]() Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: February 14, 1959 Occasion: 1959 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,1959,,Czechoslovakia Width: 41 mm Height: 22 mm Perforation: Perforated 11.50 x 11.50 Printing method: Engraved Creative team: J. Svengsbir, Engraver M. Stretti, Designer Catalog number: Scott 897 Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLIV Stamp ID = 2330 1959 World Ice Hockey Championships held in Prague, Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava, Kladno, Mlada Boleslav and Kolin in Czechoslovakia. Miller, Rick. "Stamps show where the dead countries are buried." Linn's Stamp News 23 Dec. 2019: 16-17. Print. Czechoslovakia (1918-93) Czechoslovakia's first stamps were issued in 1918, and its last regular postage stamp was issued Dec. 18, 1992. In total Czechoslovakia issued almost 2,900 postage stamps, about 170 semipostal stamps, 93 airmal stamps, three special delivery stamps, three personal delivery stamps, more than 100 postage due stamps, 15 Official stamps, two local Official stamps and about 35 newspaper stamps. |