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Fook Island Banknote with Penis imprint and hand written letter. Mark Rathbone

Item date(s): 23/9/1975

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Size: 46 x 27.5cn
Technique: Lithograph
Inscription: Signed by the artist

Type: Graphic

ART 1030

Additional notes:
Envelope with Fook Island Stamp franked with FOOK ISLAND frank and an RSA 4c postage stamp franked PRETORIA 25.9.75 15:00

Addressed to:

Mr Mark Rathbone,

16 Elgin Drive

Cowies Hill,

Pinetown

NATAL

3600

Letter on Hôtel Saint-Georges, Beyrouth, (Liban) letterhead.

Dated: 23.9.75

"Dear Mark,

Thanks for letter

Herewith a 10AK banknote with entitles

you to

membership

as a

Fooker

of Fook Island

LUV (in Fook script)

W-BATT155

The 10AK Banknote is numbered: XN126 and signed "Battiss" and with his penis where "His Majesty's fingerprint" usually appears.

Stamp illustrated on p49 of Walter Battiss, Gentle Anarchist by Karin Skawran, Standard Bank, 2005.

Stamp illustrated on p25 of An educational supplement of Walter Battiss - Gentle Anarchist by Philippa Hobbs

Ref: GB/50019