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Fook Island - First Day Cover #33

Item date(s): 20.9.75

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Size: 16.5 x 23cm Stamp 4cm x 4cm
Technique: Lithographic envelope with watercolour stamp

Category: Found
Type: Painting

ART 1792

Additional notes:
Signed 'Battiss' in ink on the cover & in the watercolour.

Text is "Bift the Fifth. Fook Island" and image is "Portrait of Bift with red hair and beard".

The printed covers have the signature "Batt 255" printed on all numbers.

All stamps have the initials F.I. in Fook script and are marked 1 AK.

See also items 550, 844, 1797, 1798 and 1799.

Ref: GB/50114



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