Aquatics Cambodia: Cambodian History in Postage Stamps

Cambodian History in Postage Stamps
История Камбоджи в почтовых марках

The first Cambodian stamps were issued in 1951 with Royaume du Cambodge (Kingdom of Cambodia in French language). One of the stamps depicted His Majesty the King of Cambodia NORODOM Sihanouk. Before the early 1950s Cambodia used the postage stamps of Indo-Chine RF (Indochina FR in French language. FR means French Republic).
Photos of postal stamps, postcards and postal envelopes were taken with permission from collectors in Cambodia, Monaco, UK, France and Russia. Some of the pictures are from open web-resources in Internet.

Indochina FR Postage Stamps, Postcards & Envelopes

His Majesty King of Cambodia NORODOM Sihanouk in 1941

Cambodian Postage Stamps, Postcards & Envelopes from 1951 till the present time

Apsaras in Angor Wat: this how looks in reality two Apsaras in Angkor Wat

Cambodian Postal Stamps: 40 Years of Independence. Cambodia 1993

Cambodian Postal Stamps: Palm Sugar Making. State of Cambodia 1991

Cake with Cambodian Postage Stamp! Might be very tasty! :)

What is interesting, with this postal stamp, not only figures and faces of ice hockey players (as telling honestly - we do not know, where and how modern Cambodian painters studied painting, as we saw that very rare Cambodian painters could create paintings with realistically looking people, especially problem for them - how to paint figures of the people, mostly their paintings with people looking like cartoons, painted by 10 years old child), but also - the letters CSSR at yellow uniform of the player in the centre: CSSR means Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. This stamp was issued in 1990, for Olympic Games 1992. But, After the Velvet Revolution in late-1989, Czechoslovakia adopted the official name Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Czech: Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, Slovak: Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika; ČSFR) during the period from 23 April 1990 until 31 December 1992, when the country was dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. So, in reality, the player could not wear uniform with letters CSSR in Olympic Games 1992 as shown in this postal stamp, but was wearing uniform with letters CSFR, as official name of his country became Czech and Slovak Federative Republic - CSFR since 23 April 1990.