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Fook Island. First Day Cover. 30 Zook.

Item date(s): c 1975

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Size: 27 x 37.5cm
Technique: Print and stamps on paper
Inscription: Signed by the artist.

Type: Graphic

ART 0876

Additional notes:
Stamp is illustrated on p34 of Walter Battiss edited by Karin Skawran and Michael Macnamara, published by Ad Donker, 1985. Watercolour: Cook's Bay, Moorea, Tahiti.

There are three stamps vertically pasted at top right with the Zookmekaar cancellation stamp

The wording on the print: FIRST DAY. And the evening and the morning were the FIRST DAY. EERSTE DAG. En dit was aand en dit was more, die EERSTE DAG. Gen:1.5. ZOOK. In Fook script: "The First Day. Zook Is Fook" and "The First Day."

CMD 2244, 0439, 30311

Ref: GB/50012