MANDELA NELSON: (1918- ) President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. Signed First Day Cover featuring a colour design commemorating the Presidential Inauguration, 10th May 1994, with the caption Many Cultures - One Nation in English and Afrikaans. The cover features four different colour postage stamps, one with a portrait of Mandela, and is post marked at Pretoria, 10th May 1994. Signed by Mandela in ink with his name alone to a clear area, alongside an official black ink stamp of the Private Bag of the Office of the President, Cape Town, 22nd September 1997. Lightly mounted and professionally matted in ivory beneath a colour portrait photograph of Mandela. Framed and glazed in a black and gold coloured frame to an overall size of 15 x 23.5. VG. £200-300