In a message dated 4/27/2010 10:35:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: To the best of my knowledge, this attitude was taken from the very beginning. It's possible the stamp was applied outside the country. It seems logical that if the item was stamped inside Czechoslovakia it would have said Ceskoslovensko. > This is an uniform international trade labeling custom that is always in English and it is applied by the manufacturer e.g., _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=350346634406_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=350346634406) . BTW At one time Cesko-Slovenska was also written with hyphen. Ulrich Rudofsky