Sunday, February 24, 2019

HOTEL COURIER POSTS & LOCAL CITY POSTS of Minnemer/ CINDERELLA STAMPS by Eric Whollem/ PARAPHILATELY/ Mermaid Stamps




MINNEMER
Lake Rooh Despatch
Siren's Lair Hotel courier post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

LOCAL POSTS OF MINNEMER

Minnemer, an independent Mermaid Kingdom found in Northeastern Amphora, has not only regular postal issues for the nation, but a large variety of local post stamp issues. These local posts in include the Hotel Courier stamps of the Lake Rooh region. Among the hotels issuing stamps are Siren's Lair Hotel. The Lake Rooh Despatch issues stamps for the lake region.

Hotel Courier stamps were first developed in Switzerland. The customers at various lodges are allowed to frank their mail with stamps which pay for having their letters delivered to the local government post offices, where they are then sent out to the intended final destination.

The Salt Head City Post, established at Salt Bay, has issued it's local post stamps for many years now.



MINNEMER
Rhys Local Post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE RHYS LOCAL POST

The Isle of Annwyn (also spelled Anwyn) is a semi-autonomous region of Minnemer. It is found in the Bay of Branwen. Rhys, the capital city issues stamps which are honored by the post offices of Minnemer, and also by most member states of the Amphoran Postal Union.




ISLE OF ANNWYN LOCAL POST OFFICE
Rhys City Post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist 



LAKE ROOH DESPATCH
Rag Camp Post Office
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SALT HEAD CITY POST
Minnemer regional local post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


REGULAR ISSUES OF THE MINNEMER POSTAL SERVICE

Minnemer, being a nation of mermaids, sailors, sea combers,  retired admirals and sea captains and eccentric aquatically oriented hermits, has been issuing stamps perceptible to normative humans for a few years now. Prior to these issues mail was considered too dry and physical to be of any concern to mermaids; but with the passing of the years it was decided that messages needed to be sent to the dryer cousins of the merfolk, to keep up appearances in the modern world.

The covers and stamps below show the output of the federal post office.

The Bureau of Mermaid Affairs has contributed much to this aquatic outreach endeavor.


MINNEMER
Bureau of Mermaid Affairs
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Minnemer Maritime Authority
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Sea Feather
with cancellations
2016
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Sea Feather
color essays with cancellations
2016-9
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Minnemer Meteorological Association
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MINNEMER
Map Stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MINNEMER
Aphrodite Issue
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



ERIC WHOLLEM
Bureau of Wetlands Management
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MINNEMER
Mer Foundation Centenary Issue
2016
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MINNEMER
Merpex Philatelic Exposition cover
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


STAMP EXPOSITIONS AND PHILATELIC MAIL OF MINNEMER

As part of Minnemer's diplomatic relationships with other nations, a variety of stamp exhibits have been created to help develop tourism in Minnemer. Despite unfounded fears generated by myths of the dangers of Sirens, especially those of the inland lakes, the coastal mermaids of Minnemer are eager to develop trade and commerce with outlander peoples.

It has been falsely said that Allysia Rooh, who appears on the local posts of the Rooh Lakes region is an immortal who has been operating illicit taverns and inns for four hundred years or so.....since the Elizabethan Era.  

But the Minnemer Maritime Authority tells us in their memos that mysterious disappearances of customers from Siren's Lair Hotel could easily be seen as the result of activities of Amphitritonian pirates or renegade incursions from isles off the coast  of Nereidia.

The Minnemer Royal Philatelic Agency assures terrestrial outlanders that the stamps of Minnemer are honest paraphilatelic creations, free of piratic or other undesirable affiliations, being the products of Minnemer's benign Mermaid graphic industry.

Below are examples of some of the color essays of the 'Sea Feather' stamp issued by the Minnemer Post, as exhibited recently at MERPEX.


ALLYSIA ROOH
Legendary Culture Hero of Lake Rooh
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Salt Bay Stamp Exposition
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Sea Feather
color essays with cancellations
2016-9
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MINNEMER
Mer Foundation Centenary Issue
2016
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MINNEMER
Sea Feather
color essays with cancellations
2016-9
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

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