Liberia | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: April 06, 2006 Occasion: 2006 Winter Olympics,2006,Turin,Italy Width: 38 mm Height: 51 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.50 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXIV Stamp ID = 6108 Is this a hockey stamp? The illustration on the stamp is based on Austrian designer Arthur Zelger's poster for the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics. ![]() Some say that image shows an ice hockey stick blade, some say that the image is a ski jump ramp and others say that the image is of a skate blade. Since Arthur Zelger died in 2004 we may never know. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Liberia (1860-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 2,602,068. A republic on the west coast of Africa, Liberia was colonized after 1822 by freed slaves from the United States. |