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Fook Island. First Day Cover. 20 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 0877

Additional notes:
Stamp is illustrated on p34 of Walter Battiss edited by Karin Skawran and Michael Macnamara, published by Ad Donker, 1985.

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. In the Fook alphabet: "The First Day. Zook Is. Fook"

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Ref: GB/50013