Antigua & Barbuda
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Occasion: 2006 Winter Olympics,2006,Turin,Italy
Width: 50 mm
Height: 37 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00
Printing method: Lithographed
Catalog number:
Scott 2879
Location: Ice Hockey Volume II
Stamp ID = 75
The phrase "White Olympics" was used for the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Shown is the Austrian stamp for the 1964 Winter Olympics.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Antigua (1862-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 65,647 (1996). A state in association with Great Britain, comprising the island of Antigua and several smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, southeast of Puerto Rico. Under British rule since 1632, Antigua became a separate colony in 1956. In 1967 Antigua became self-governing and became the independent state of Antigua-Barbuda in 1981.