Czechia
czr-20050522-c-001
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Occasion: 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2005, Austria
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The cancel is 36 mm by 29 mm. The Czech Republic won the Gold Medal in 2005. Do not understand the reference to FLATI KLUCI in the cancel. Best I can figure out that translate to the dog breed "flat coated retriever". Why should that be on a cancel showing a hockey goalie?
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MS V LEDNIM HOKEJI VIDEN
22.5.2005 PRAHA 1
FLATI KLUCI
22.5.2005 PRAHA 1
FLATI KLUCI
translates to
WORLD CHAMPIONS IN ICE HOCKEY VIENNA
22.5.2005 Prague 1
FLAT COATED RETRIEVERS
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XXXVII
22.5.2005 Prague 1
FLAT COATED RETRIEVERS
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XXXVII
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.