Czech Republic
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Stamp picture
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Occasion: 1948 Winter Olympics,1948,St. Moritz,Switzerland
Width: 150 mm
Height: 105 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI
Stamp ID = 5975

Cachet for silver medal won by Czechoslovakia in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Jaroslav Drobný was a Czechoslovakian tennis and ice hockey player. Drobný played on the 1948 Olympic team and then in 1949 defected while playing in a tennis tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland.

NOTE

HOKEJOVÉ STŘÍBRO
ZE ST.MORITZ 1948

translated

HOCKEY SILVER
FROM ST.MORITZ 1948


Cachet shows Jaroslav Drobný (Sometimes he is referred to as Jarda, a diminutive nickname for Jaroslav.)

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

Czech Republic (1993- )
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,318,958. A republic in central Europe, comprising the Czech portion of the former Czechoslovakia, corresponding to the historic Bohemia.