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.