A listing of postage stamps of Mali depicting design errors.
|
1965 September 14
Mali
100-franc airmail stamp depicts Pope John XXIII with tiara worn rotated 90 degrees (we should see the side of the cross), and possibly the wrong tiara and clothes.
Catalog numbers: Scott C30
Approximate value: US$1.00.
|
|
1969 October 20
Mali
500-franc stamp depict's Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, with misspelled caption "DE VINCI".
Catalog numbers: Scott C82
Approximate value: US$2.25.
|
|
1971 March 8
Mali
150-franc stamp depicts horse race at Epsom Derby, but that racecourse does not contain any obstacles like pictured on the stamp.
Catalog numbers: Scott C117
Approximate value: US$0.90.
|
|
1977 May 30
Mali
130-franc airmail stamp depicts the Graf Zeppelin with date 1924, but the ship built between 1926 and 1928; 350-franc airmail stamp depicts the 1937 crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg, but shows it crashing front first, rather than rear first.
Catalog numbers: Scott C306,C307
Approximate value: US$0.90.
|
|
1978 March 28
Mali
420-franc stamp depicts Albrecht Dürer's Tête du Christ; Dürer lived 1471-1528, but the stamp errs with caption "1474-1528".
Catalog numbers: Scott C329
|
|
1981 December 7
Mali
200-franc stamp depicts Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin and a microscopic image of bacteria; the image is purple when it should be red resulting from the acid-fast staining procedure.
Catalog numbers: Scott 441
|
|
1995 October 20
Mali
100-franc stamp depicts a Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos), misspelled as "menaloleucos".
Catalog numbers: Scott 717e
|
|
1997 (month unknown)
Mali

250-franc postage stamp, depicts sailing ship Lightning by Donald McKay with caption "MAC KAY".
Catalog numbers: Scott 903a
|
Next country: Malta.
Return to Postage Stamp Design Errors Home.
Other web pages of interest:
Coins on Postage Stamps
Corvettes on Postage Stamps
Walt Disney on Postage Stamps
Chronology of Postage Stamps
The Silly World of Postage Stamps
Ken P's Coin/Stamp/Bill Novelties
The Silly World of Postage Stamps
This Day in History
|