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Sundry Fook Island Banknotes (10aks)

Item date(s): c 1975

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Size: 9.8 x14cm
Technique: Stamp
Inscription: See notes

Category: Found
Type: Graphic

ART 1200

Additional notes:
1. Signed "Battiss". No.: "XA144". With thumbprint.

2. Signed "Battiss and underlined". No.: "AC219". With thumbprint.

3. Signed "Walter Battiss". No.: "M7250". With the word "Fook" in Ms before GOVERNOR. With penis-print.

4. Not signed. With his Fook Island embossing imprint (with the double-headed image on the Fook Coin and Fook Island repeated in Fook script). No thumbprint or penis-print.

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/50042