Austria
aus-19870417-c-007
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Occasion: 1987 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1987, Austria
Belongs to cancel group 4

Identification number 7

NOTE

This cancel was used on the First Day of Issue covers for aus-19870417-s-01. The cancel is 40 mm in diameter. In the lower right hand corner there is an identification number which goes up to 10. The WM in the cancel stands for "Weltmeisterschaft" , which translates in English to "World Championships". The cancel says the following

Advertising cancel D. ABSV "Praterstern"
Ice Hockey
Group A
WM
Annual meeting of IMOS
17 April 1987
1150 Vienna
Location: Ice Hockey Volume IV

From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Austria (1850-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 8,047,000 (1997).