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Snowy Sky-Dive Mail
Fook Island Balloon Mail. First Day Issue

Item date(s): 30/5/81

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Pages: Single sheet
Size: 113mm
Language: English; Fook
Inscription: Signed by Walter Battiss


Place publication: (Pretoria)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:

Stamped with the FOOK ISLAND. Fook is Free stamp.

The words Snowy Sky=Dive Mail and First Day Issue are in Battiss's calligraphic cursive.

The words "Sunday D218" are partially illegible and not attributed.

The envelope contains a cursive letter: URGENT. Fair Greetings for fine Fook Days to commemorate the first Fook Snowy Sky-dive mail delivery. 29.5.81 [date differs from envelope] Followed by Congratulations. FOOK. in FOOK script, all in Battiss's cursive and another FOOK ISLAND. Fook is Free stamp.

Ref: GB/30500



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