Strange Looking Mandela Stamp

I am almost certain this is a Cinderella, but I am trying to work out what that object is in the foreground of the picture??? It looks like some sort of a chunk of raw meat. Any thoughts on what it might be? Bizarre really...

Could this be it?

The court case itself began 2 years later on the 3rd of August 1958 and prosecution had 12,000 pieces of evidence, (collected over a three-year period) to submit**. The whole thing took five years and I'll continue with tale in one of my next posts. Amongst the evidence presented by the crown were two signs seized that were used at a Congress of the People meeting where food had been supplied to everyone – Soup with Meat and Soup without Meat. The signs were used to indicate two different kinds of soup because some of the attendees were vegetarian Hindus. Need I say more? This didn't phase the man – he had a law firm and people needed him, so he tried to keep working even though the loss of billable hours eventually destroyed the practice. It was during this period that Amina Cachalia helped to supply him with food so that he could keep his business afloat – this is one of her recipes.

Source:

http://www.justfoodnow.com/2010/07/...son-mandela/

thanks for the mystery think I solved it...


I believe it has a relationship with the time he spent in Prison and the picture of his inaugural speech some symbology...

Precisely at 4:30, there would be a loud knock on the wooden door at the end of our corridor, which meant that supper had been delivered. Common law prisoners were used to dish out the food to us and we would return to our cells to eat it. We again received mealie pap porridge, sometimes with the odd carrot or piece of cabbage or beetroot thrown in but one usually had to search for it. If we did get a vegetable, we would usually have the same one for weeks on end, until the carrots or cabbage were old and moldy and we were thoroughly sick of them. Every other day, we received a small piece of meat with our porridge. The meat was usually mostly gristle.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...rkyears.html

The stamp on the 2003 Nobel Prize winners Miniature sheet has '2003' inscribed bottom right. Your example does not. Maybe this is a single issue.

The piece of meat is a crystallized rock !

Cheers Edwin. Both good ideas, but it makes no sense to put it in a photo or on a stamp. I am starting to wonder if it is meant to be something else?

LondonBus1, thanks. I probably retouched the date out after I photographed it, I can't quite remember, but it did come from a mini sheet with 4 or 6 I recall. So it's probably the same stamp you are referring to, Cinderella I assume? Anyway, what kind of rock and what is the significance of it to Mandela?

O well, hotmail is down I got nothing to do but push refresh....

So, ok, it's a crystallized rock, but still don't get the meaning of it?

Crazy stamp.

The stamp is postally valid, not a Cinderella. At least it is as postally valid as millions of other 'issued in excess of Postal Needs' items that are issued worldwide.

It comes from a sheet of 6, the stamp is bottom right on the sheet.
I have no idea what a crystallized rock is doing on a Nobel Peace Prize winners M/S but can only guess it was an interest of Mandela. A butterfly adorns the Desmond Tutu stamp ! The others do not have such strange additions.
Another possibility is that many stamps from Guinea-Bissau have minerals or rocks on their issues. Could be a local thing from the mines or mountains of the country. Some research would solve the mystery.

Londonbus1

I liked Edwin's research and answer best!

I don't think they are cataloged in Scott though. I think I had in total 2 sheets of them which I broke up and photographed from GB. Among them were also Martin Luther King, Dalai Lama, Einstein, Mother Teresa, and others. Again, I am just going from memory now. But I like the series. Many nice looking images of iconic people. The MLK one looks like a painting. Very colorful. I'll post it later.

MLK:

Almost looks like Eddie Murphy

it looks boiled to me...:P
Pass the salt.