Saturday, April 18, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC CYBERMAIL/ '3rd Class Warp Mail With a Billion Year Old Cancellation' by Eric Whollem/ A LETTER TO GONDWANALAND FROM THE MOON


3rd CLASS WARP MAIL WITH A BILLION YEAR OLD CANCELLATION
2015
Eric Whollem
faux postage stamps/ cybermail
copyright by the artist

WARP MAIL FROM THE MOON

In the future the Moon developed a Time Machine that was useful in not only delivering mail, but also sending the mailman back in time. Why is it that we always talk about the future in the past tense?

This rare historical cover from Binky and Boscoe's Paraphilatelic Museum on Titania, the Moon of Neptune tells all. Pappy Pete, whose antique 1952 Remington typewriter addressed this envelope, was a collector of relics from earth.

He probably thought that he could get stuff on the cheap from Gondwanaland.

Here he writes to the Sabertooth Pawnshop in Western Gondwanaland. The cover is graced by not only the star shaped cancellations from the Republic of the Moon, but a billion year old cancellation from the Gondwanaland Post Office, saying 'Received 1,000,000.000 B.C.E.'


TIMBUKONE

Timbukone, in the desert of Western Gondwanaland, was the locale of the site that is now known as Timbuktu. 

Sabertooth Pawnshop is just one of many businesses found in the Cave Mall found there. See my map below for the exact location.

MAP OF GONDWANALAND
2004
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

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