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Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: 1937 Width: 29 mm Height: 37 mm Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXII Stamp ID = 4570 Korean TB Christmas seal showing what "looks" like 2 children playing hockey. Upon closer examination they are spinning tops on ice by hitting the top with a stick. The two characters in the lower left mean "HEALTH" From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Korea (1884-85, 1895-1905, 1946) Stamp-issuing status: inactive; Population: 22.8 million (1938 estimate). A peninsula in east Asia, surrounded on three sides by the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea and bounded on the north by Manchuria and the Soviet Union. |