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Fook Island: Shadow of Fook Stamp
and other stamps

Item date(s): c 1975-1976

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Size: Envelopes 11 x 22cm
Technique: Paper
Inscription: Unsigned

Category: Found
Type: Graphic

ART 1257

Additional notes:
[A] 3 Fook Island stamps. Separate and unfranked without the value on the stamps.

Similar stamps were used as postage stamps with the addition of the values.

(1): Birds and flowers - see 877 - GB/50013 for the 20ak Zook first day cover.

(2): Tahiti island - see 876 - GB/50012 for the 30ak Zook first day cover.

(3): Battiss self-portrait (watercolour) - See 027 "Alphabat".

[B] 2 Fook Island envelopes. Both (one on white paper and one on brown paper) with Fook Island stamp: "Fook is Free". One (on brown paper) with additional blue ink stamps: "Fook is the Now" on the back and one (one white paper) with additional blue ink stamps: "Fook is the Now" on the front. 11 x 22cm.

Ref: GB/50051