Czechoslovakia
cze-19380219-c-002
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Occasion: 1938 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 1938, Czechoslovakia
Belongs to cancel group 8

There were 20 different cancels for the 1938 World Ice Hockey Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Two for each day of the tournament, which ran from February 11 through February 20, 1938. One cancel for each day of the tournament along with two different identification labels: a and b. The cancel was in both Czech and French. The cancel was 36 mm in diameter.

NOTE

PRAHA 1
19.II.38-19
b
MISTROVSTVI SVETA A EVROPY V LEDNIM HOCKEYI
CHAMPIONAT DU MONDE ET DE L'EUROPE DE HOCKEY SUR GLACE

Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLI

Miller, Rick. "Stamps show where the dead countries are buried." Linn's Stamp News 23 Dec. 2019: 16-17. Print.

Czechoslovakia (1918-93)
Czechoslovakia's first stamps were issued in 1918, and its last regular postage stamp was issued Dec. 18, 1992. In total Czechoslovakia issued almost 2,900 postage stamps, about 170 semipostal stamps, 93 airmal stamps, three special delivery stamps, three personal delivery stamps, more than 100 postage due stamps, 15 Official stamps, two local Official stamps and about 35 newspaper stamps.