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Botswana First Day Cover
Folktales of Botswana

Item date(s): 8 Sept 1980

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (stamps by)

Medium: Lithograph on paper with postage stamps affixed thereto
Pages: 125mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist

Place publication: Gaborone, Botswana
Publisher: Department of Postal Services, Botswana

Additional notes:
Illustrated in "Walter Battiss -"I Invented Myself"" by Warren Siebrits, a catalogue for an exhibition, 2011 as Item #32. Battiss was commissioned by the Botswanan Postal Service to paint four paintings which would illustrate Botswana folk tales. These four paintings were then reproduced on four of their stamps.

The envelopes signed Battiss or Walter Battiss, containing a promotional folder by Alec C. Campbell giving details of the stamps, the folktales and the artist.

A newspaper clipping, Pretoria News, 8/9/1980 "Folktales come to life."

5t. Chiwele and the Giant

10t Kgori is not deceived

30t Nyambi's wife and Crocodile

45t Clever Hare.

An article from the SA Philatelist dated September 1980 and a newspaper clipping from Pretoria News dated September 8 1980 "Folktales come to life".

A series of stamps in a philatelic folder from the Republic of Botswana titled "Birds of Botswana, 3rd Definitive Series, 3rd July 1978" which also contains Battiss's First Day Cover. (Another copy)

Ref: GB/30240