Mali
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: January 10, 1972
Occasion: 1972 Winter Olympics,1972,Sapporo,Japan
Width: 92 mm
Height: 120 mm
Perforation: Imperforate
Printing method: Engraved
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXVI
Stamp ID = 2946

Date block of 4mal-19720110-s-001.

From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Mali (1959-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 9,945,383. A republic in West Africa. Formerly the French Sudan, Mali joined Senegal in 1959 to form the independent Federation of Mali. Senegal withdrew from the federation in 1960, and Mali, which called itself the Sudanese Republic during its union with Senegal, proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Mali.