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![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: May 22, 1972 Occasion: 1972 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,1972,Prague,Czechoslovakia Width: 32 mm Height: 32 mm Perforation: Perforated 11.00 x 11.00 Printing method: Engraved Catalog number: Scott 1845 Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLIV Stamp ID = 2340 Czechoslovakia won the 1972 World Ice Hockey Championship. This iscze-19720407-s-001 with blue overprint in Czech CSSR MISTREM SVETA 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. |