Scouts at a mortar, village and gazelle
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1981.MLI.02-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 4th African Conference of Scouting in Abidjan
1981.MLI.02· piece 1 of 7 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Mali (MLI)- Year / date
- 1981-06-08
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 110 f
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Multicolour
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Designer
- Odette Baillais
- Printer
- EDILA (Éditions de l'Aubetin, Geneva)
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13
- Panes
- 25
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 981.38
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- ML 425
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- ML 859
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- ML 425
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- ML 857
Notes
Two Scouts in white shirts work at a wooden mortar among thatched huts; a woman carries a pot on her head in the background. A green pennant at left holds a gazelle’s head, a fleur-de-lis and a shovel. Lettered RÉPUBLIQUE DU MALI, POSTES, 110F and 4e conférence africaine du scoutisme-Abidjan juin 1981. Signed O. BAILLAIS and EDILA.
Series history
Mali issued three commemoratives and a souvenir sheet at Bamako on 8 June 1981 for the 4th African Scout Conference, held at Abidjan in June 1981. Each stamp is lettered RÉPUBLIQUE DU MALI, POSTES and 4e conférence africaine du scoutisme-Abidjan juin 1981, and is signed O. BAILLAIS and EDILA.
Odette Baillais designed the set. EDILA (Éditions de l'Aubetin, Geneva) printed it by offset lithography. The three stamps are comb perforated 13, in panes of 25. The 110 franc, horizontal, shows two Scouts at a wooden mortar among thatched huts, a woman carrying a pot on her head in the distance, and a gazelle’s head with a shovel on a green pennant. The 160 franc, horizontal, shows two Scouts seated, one holding a torch, with a monkey’s head on a red pennant. The 300 franc, vertical, shows a Scout giving the Scout salute against a map of Africa, with a cheetah’s head on a yellow pennant.
The three stamps also exist imperforate, on cards with wide unprinted margins. The 500 franc souvenir sheet, 120 × 90 mm, comb perforated 12 × 12½, carries a portrait of Robert Baden-Powell in a campaign hat beside a large green fleur-de-lis. The sheet is lettered REPUBLIQUE DU MALI, Abidjan juin 1981 and 4e conférence africaine du scoutisme; the stamp repeats RÉPUBLIQUE DU MALI, POSTES, 500f and the conference line. The sheet exists imperforate.
