Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Ogygia the True Atlantis/ CINDERELLA STAMP VIDEO by Eric Whollem




OGYGIA THE TRUE ATLANTIS
video
by Eric Whollem
2019


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CLICK ON ICON IN THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE VIDEO TO VIEW FULLSCREEN

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Pirate Stamps of Les Etats Barbaru/ CINDERELLA STAMP VIDEO by Eric Whollem




Pirate Stamps of Les Etats Barbaru
a Youtube video
by Eric Whollem


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CLICK ON ICON IN THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THIS VIDEO TO VIEW 
FULL SCREEN

Sunday, September 22, 2019

PIRATE STAMPS OF LES ETATS BARBARU/ Cinderella Stamps by Eric Whollem/ A FEDERATION OF VARIOUS PIRATE ENCLAVES




PELLY'S NEST
Les Etats Barbaru
1895 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


LES ETATS BARBARU

The Barbaru States, or Les Etats Barbaru, was the name of an old pirate federation along the Barbaru Coast. The Wench's Mint on Pelly's Nest, an island operated by the infamous pirate captain,  was the most prolific stamp producer in the region.

Included in this federation  were Pelly's Nest, Skag Dog Republic, the Mukka Republic, Kiklop Ada, and Rotter's Pit.




PELLY'S NEST
Shipwreck
1899 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



PELLY'S NEST
Shipwreck
1899 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




PELLY'S NEST
Steamship
1903 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



KIKLOP ADA POST
Les Etats Barbaru
1899 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

KIKLOP ADA

The Kiklop Ada Post, an enclave of Turkish pirates was run by Saddiya al  Hurra, a famous female Turkish pirate. The stamps of this island show various Turkish pirates.

Francois Ducat, a French pirate, allied with the Turks appears on the cover below, unfortunately damaged by sea water.




KIKLOP ADA POST
Salvaged Mail
1910 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


ROTTER'S PIT POST
Salvaged Mail
1910 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


ROTTER'S PIT

The only remaining stamp cover from Rotter's Pit is seen above.  It was damaged by sea water on the same voyage as the Kiklop cover above.....Kiklop, by the way, is the Turkish designation of the Cyclops.



PELLY'S NEST
An Apple a Day
1896 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




PELLY'S NEST
Barbaru Coast Maiden
1899 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





PELLY'S NEST
Daddy Dearest
1901 lol
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


CLASSIC COVER OF PELLY'S NEST
cancelled with coins from Pelly's hoard
date uncertain (some experts conjecture early in the 21st century)
LOL 
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



VIEW MORE PIRATE STAMPS:


Eric Whollem pirate stamp video
enlarge to view full screen for best quality


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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Pirate Stamps by Eric Whollem/ CINDERELLA STAMPS/ Fantasy Stamp Covers and Pirate Postal Currency/ WORRO WORRO & NEW WEST DIGBYLAND


NEW WEST DIGBYLAND
Captian Peter Petticoat Broadside
2016
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE STORY OF THE NEW WEST DIGBYLAND PIRATES

The Tale of how Jonah Digby lead his crew to the shores of the Pelican Coast to establish a free state for his pirate crew. The video below reveals all.



PIRATE STAMPS OF NEW WEST DIGBYLAND
Youtube Video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

CLICK ON VIDEO TO VIEW FULL SCREEN



NEW WEST DIGBYLAND
Captain Melvil Featherduster McDirk
2016
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


PIRATE REVENUE STAMPS
New West Digbyland
2016
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE PIRATES OF WORRO WORRO

Off the Undinian coast the island of Worro Worro prospered in obscurity until the day that a ship of pirates landed. 

Captain Dooblong and his first mate, Ali Barbarosa, soon had converted the cannibals of Worro Worro to honest piracy and a new nation was born. LOL

The video below tells the story.


PIRATE STAMPS OF WORRO WORRO
Youtube Video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


CLICK ON VIDEO TO VIEW FULL SCREEN



WORRO WORRO
Map stamp
2017
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WORRO WORRO
classic stamp cover
2017
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE PIRATES OF WORRO WORRO
http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/2018/02/pirate-stamps-from-worro-worro.html


HOW THE DIGBYLAND PIRATES WERE DEFEATED ALONG THE BARBARU COAST

Friday, August 2, 2019

FANTASY SAND DUNE STAMP VIDEOS/ Cinderella Stamps and Covers by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE FROM THE BARBARU COAST



DUUN AL SAANDI
archaic Phoenician ship
fantasy Sand Dune stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



Click on the icon in the lower right hand corner of these videos
 to view them full screen.



AL TAZWIR RAILWAY POST
Youtube video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


FANTASY EMIRATE STAMPS

Scarabeus Binkel, who had colonized the Barbaru Coast, establishing his Barbaru Frie Stajt was at long last invaded by the Digby Brothers. Ned Digby had a talk radio program, which began in Binkel County...  This radio program primarily was a propaganda organ of the Digby Brothers Empire. They sent out a fleet of ships to try to find the erstwhile 'lost' Scarabeus Binkel in the hinterlands of the Barbaru Coast.

Binkel was not lost, but busy establishing phantom countries for which he would create faux stamps. He was a rogue stamp dealer. After being ousted from the Frie Stajt by the Digby Brothers, he took up a pseudonym, Zabbaba McBink.  Shiek Zabbaba had set up the Zabbabian Emirates in conjunction with help of his old shipmates.

The videos seen here document the paraphilatelic experiments of Zababba.

These stamps are parodies of what stamp collectors call 'Sand Dune Stamps'. . .bogus stamps from imaginary emirates.





DUUN AL SAANDI FANTASY STAMPS
Youtube video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



STAMPS OF WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Medini's Wallpaper Factory
Youtube video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA AND THE JEEMTUN DISPATCH LOCAL POST
Youtube video
2019
by Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


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Monday, June 3, 2019

URANIAN REGIONAL MAIL/ Stamp Covers from the Moons of Neptune and Uranus/ CINDERELLA STAMPS by Eric Whollem/ THE PARAPHILATELY OF OUTER SPACE



TRITON STATION.
letter from the Triton, a moon of Uranus
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



THE STAMPS OF TRITON STATION

Triton Station is a colony established by entrepeneurs from Titania, the largest moon of Neptune. Finding that Titania was largely occupied by the Gondwilli people  a few of the folk who had come from Syzygium, on the dark side of earth's Moon, tried their luck at colonizing the region of Uranus.

On Triton, a moon of  Uranus, they found a colony of indigenous beings, related to people from Worm World.

Instead of battling the indigenous population as had done on Titania, the postal admistration of Triton Station has honored their forebears in the far reaches of space. Below are rare images of the mysterious Worm People, known today mostly for their network of tunnels that criss-cross the universe.


READ ABOUT THE WORM WORLD


TRITON STATION
cover with stamps showing
visitors from Worm World.
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



TITANIAN POSTAGE DUE
from Neptune's Moons
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



TRITON STATION
sent by Uranian Regional Delivery
to Titania
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



BINKY'S STAMP BARN

Binky McTool, the Syzydite paraphilatelist, had created the largest stamp emporium in our solar system on Titania. Binky was also postmaster of the hominid side of Titania, while the Gondwilli people, actually prehominids from Gondwanaland, occupied most of this Neptunian moon.

Some conjecture that McTool represents a second cousin of Scarabeus Binkel, known today on earth for his various stamp empires, catalogs and many stamp creations.

It is said, however that it was Qwantus Qwo, postmaster of the Moon whose vast edition called 'A CATALOG OF STAMPS OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE' is today described as a chief reference tool for many.




TRITON STATION
a letter to Titania, Moon of Neptune
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



TRITON STATION
Tritonian Philatelic Exposition
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



TITANIA
Postage due
2216
Eric Whollem
cyber edition
copyright by the artist



TRITON STATION
cyberart mail
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





TRITON STATION
with stamps of Anodyomene
Airless Mail
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




TRITON STATION
received in Titania
2216
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




TRITON STATION
cyber coil stamps
2214
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





READ ABOUT THE GONDWILLI

CHECK OUT SYGYGIUM

LEARN ABOUT THE REPUBLIC OF THE MOON

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

NEFERNEFERLAND FANTASY STAMPS/ Covers and Cancellations by Eric Whollem/ EGYPTIAN CINDERELLA STAMPS




NEFERNEFERLAND
Desert Maiden
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




NEFERNEFERLAND
Postal Tax Cover
with map stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Map Stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




NEFERNEFERLAND
Jack's Grill and Oasis
local post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



JACK'S GRILL AND OASIS

Towards the early years of the 19th century a certain Captain Jack became known as a great explorer of the mysteries of Africa. 

Jack established a pub on the shores of the Nile, which outlived him by many years, and is said to be honored by Jack's mummy serving as bartender to this day, thanks to the forgotten science of the funerary illuminati of the Nile.

Jack set up a local post, for which he created a series of local post stamps, now mostly quite rare, and mostly lost or damaged by babboon bites, as the banana gum on the backs of the stamps was too much of a temptation to the aforementioned anthropoidal connoiseurs.

Jack's pub is famous for it's fermented toddy, the recipe of which has been kept secret for centuries and is now one of the Eight Mysteries of Neferneferland.



NEFERNERFERLAND
Jack's Oasis
local post cancel
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



JACK'S GRILL & OASIS
advertising cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
John Lee Hooker
Music Festival cover
cancelled in Nashville and Memphis
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


JOHN LEE HOOKER MUSIC FESTIVAL

If one carefully examines the map of Neferneferland one will discover not only the ancient city of Memphis, which in modern times had a town in Tennessee named after it, but also the ancient city of Nashville, similarly honored by some strange coincidence also in Tennessee.

When asked about this,  Ms.Tinker Belle, the stage manager of the John Lee Hooker Festival, referred us to the works of Edgar Cayce for elucidation of this point. Others may cite obscure texts found in versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a text popularized in the 20th century by Carl Jung and Jerry Garcia.

Nefer, of course, means 'beautiful' in the ancient Egyptian language. 




NEFERNEFERLAND
Obelisk cover
Registered in Geezer
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



PHILATELAE
Neferneferland cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
General El Beebi cover
with scarab cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Al Qook Duck Farm letter
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




JACK'S LOCAL POST
Nile Maiden
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Percival Ramses Al Qook
Postmaster of Goshen
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Waiting for Osiris
2016
with cancellations from 2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
The Chamber of Initiation
Sarcophagus of Abydos
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MORE ABOUT NEFERNEFERLAND

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

AL TAZWIR EMIRATE FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS/ Covers and Cancellations by Eric Whollem/ CINDERELLA STAMPS/ Paraphilately



AL TAZWIR
Beel-Zala Ferry
Lake Wahmia Ferryboat Service
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

AL TAZWIR

Al Tazwir is the southernmost of the Zababbian Emirates founded by Sheik Zababba. Al Tazwir translates as 'The Forgery' as the Emir of Al Tazwir was known by his shipmates aboard Scarabeus Binkel's flagship as 'The Forger.'

The stamps of Al Tazwir ironically are not forgeries, but a foil, as acceptable examples of vintage collage art, for the emir's faux birth certificate and passport service. The passports are sold cheap to customers of the sheik's ferry service on Lake Wahmia.  A special discount is offfered to pirates except the nefarious pirates of Digbyland. The certificates are useful on the local lake where the only local officials are Wahmian Wharf rats....but they seldom fool customs services in outlying lands. LOL




AL TAZWIR
The emir
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




AL TAZWIR
Letter to Moruvgach
with postal tax from Lattiomin
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


AL TAZWIR
English bluebells
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





AL TAZWIR
Al Jinn Rare Books
received in Sarmoli, Moruvgach
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
Vintage British paperback book covers
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




AL TAZWIR
Lake Wahmia Ferryboat & Railway Parcel Service
Al Tazwir Railway Letter Rate
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
American bulldog
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
Rossetti Paintings
British art series
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

BRITISH ART ON THE STAMPS OF AL TAZWIR

The art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti appears on the above cover. Rossetti was the founder of the Preraphaelite art movement from Britain.

The desert peoples of the Zababbian region much appreciate the exotic fine arts of the northern countries.



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