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![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: October 07, 1974 Width: 35 mm Height: 35 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00 Catalog number: Scott C230 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXVI Stamp ID = 2947 Issued for the 50th Anniversary of the Winter Olympics (1924 - 1974). Ice hockey is in the upper left corner of the stamp. 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. |