Tuesday, June 16, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC ART MAIL/ Parrot and Pelican Cooperative Mail Courier Services of the Binklish East Merreminde Company/ A Cyber Edition by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS



PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST
mailed out of East Merreminde
2015
Eric Whollem
paraphilatelic art mail
copyright by the artist


PARROT AND PELICAN BIRD POSTAL COURIERS

After Scarabeus Binkel colonized East Merreminde he established the Binklish East Merreminde Company to oversee his domains. He had already explored the Barbaru Coast and founded colonies in Barbaru Frie Stajt as well as Binklish Vuyana.

Finding that he had mail to send to suboceanic addresses, he could no longer rely solely on his loyal parrot to deliver his letters. So he conscripted a group of amiable Pelicans, assuring them of payment in ship's cracker for their troubles. Pelicans are among the most expert of divers and Binkel believed them suitable for communications with indigenous mermaids, as well as the hybrid half-human, half mermaid members of his crew who had remained behind in Binkel's Landing in Barbaru. The Parrot would make an excellent postal navigator, but always complained when he got his feathers soaked in salt water.

Finding that his cook had become ill with an unusual ear ache after reporting that he heard a horrible wailing noise coming off the starboard bow. Thus Captain Binkel went ashore and took up lodging in a mysteriously unoccupied hotel in Merre Town, a room with a kitchen.




PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST
mailed out of East Merreminde
2015
Eric Whollem
paraphilatelic art mail
copyright by the artist


Captain Binkel wrote this letter to Narrie A. Kaer, a mermaid he thought he could trust back at Binkel's Landing. He knew that many members of his crew had been converted to the worship of Aphrodite by the Mermaids with whom they had intermarried. He also wisely was using this opportunity to test the mettle of the Pelicans in his service. Binkel was a circumspect Postmaster General as well as Captain.


BINKLISH EAST MERREMINDE COMPANY
overprint on stamps of Merreminde
2015
Eric Whollem
cyberstamps
copyright by the artist

Finding that every town he came to in East Merreminde was quiet and comletely absent of inhabitants. This made conquest of the region amazingly easy. He found these stamps in the post office drawer in Merre Town, and using the typographic press aboard his ship, the Flower of June, he quickly went about overprinting some of them for use by the Binklish East Merreminde Company.



PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST
mailed out of East Merreminde
2015
Eric Whollem
paraphilatelic art mail
copyright by the artist

Alarmed by the increasing sounds of mysterious wailing from the depths of the sea, and finding that many of his crew were becoming sick or jumping into the sea, Captain Binkel quickly wrote to his cohorts at the Bottom of Binkel's Bay back in his colony in Barbaru. He apparently needed reinforcements and any help he could get.


PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST
mailed out of East Merreminde
2015
Eric Whollem
paraphilatelic art mail
copyright by the artist

Some of his crew in Barbaru were beachcombers, but Bo'sun Blaine operated a Salvage Yard at the bottom of the sea.  He was a 'Bottom Scraper' as they say among the Mermaids. Binkel needed materials that he could not find in East Merreminde. We do not have the letter that was enclosed in this envelope, so we cannot be sure; but it seems that perhaps Binkel needed scrap iron, perhaps for shrapnel. Was there a war going on in East Merreminde? We hope not, for that land has been a peaceful realm of Mermaids for many centuries. Perhaps Captain Binkel knew nothing about any of this....but if he had only asked his Pelicans, they could have filled him in. LOL