Postage Stamp Design Errors

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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