Archaic Ships
2019
Eric Whollem
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DARBOOR BIN McGILLICUDDY
Shortly after Scarabeus Binkel established his new pirate colony of Scarabia, using his new pseudonym, Zababba McBink, one of his navigators, Luther Cornweather, followed suit, creating his own colony to the south. The sailors chose this center of operation after the fall of the Barbaru Frie Stajt to the onslaught of the notorious Digby Brothers. This was the beginning of that loose federation of tribal states called the Zababbian Emirates.
Luther Cornweather chose the name Darboor Bin McGillicuddy and made Al Iriwa his capital. He found that the flowing robes typical of the desert dwellers made the best of disguises.....and he needed to keep low from the spying eyes of the scouts of the Digby Brothers.
Both Binkel and Cornweather were entrepenuers, conceiving themselves as philatelic pioneers in the heretofore non-postally developed desert lands of the shores of the Sea of Glass.
DUUN AL SAANDI
Zababba Camel Express Mail
2019
Eric Whollem
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THE ZABABBA CAMEL EXPRESS
Darboor and Zababba conceived themselves as Hidden Imams, styling themselves after the famous Imams of Chokar and Duwan. They received tutelage in this lore from the desert dwellers who were indigenous to the region which they now provided with a uniform system of postal deliveries, though no one there in the primitive desert along the Glassy Shore had ever conceived of a letter before . . . or much less a bill sent by mail . . . or an advertisement or flyer from the market.
Having little recourse to horses, they turned to camels for enterprise and courier purposes. Thus the Zababba Camel Express came to be.
DUUN AL SAANDI
Registered letter
with a triangular postal tax stamp
with a triangular postal tax stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
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Phoenician ship
2019
Eric Whollem
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DUUN AL SAANDI
McGillicuddy's Glass Works
2019
Eric Whollem
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McGILLICUDDY'S GLASS WORKS
Having practiced for some time as a glass blower on the Isle of Buto. Shiek Darboor Bin McGillicuddy soon made a name for himself among the desert folk. It was not long before Governor Tom in Vuyana to the south was sending orders to Duun al Saandi for trade beads to placate the savages which had ravaged Taylorsville in Vuyana for some time.
VUYANA POST OFFICE
Samuel Allen Taylor stamp
from Taylorsville
replete with monkey cancel
1958
Eric Whollem
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Taylorsville is the namesake of Samuel Allen Taylor, who in his old age made the jungles of Vuyana his home, seeking the quiet wilds for inspiration for his local courier post fantasy stamps,which were mostly discouraged if not completely outlawed in the savage lands of the civilized from whence he came.
It seems that the Sea of Glass region had become a sort of art colony for rogue paraphilatelists.
DUUN AL SAANDI
Animals of Duun al Saandi
Zebu & Tapir
2019
Eric Whollem
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McGILLICUDDY'S STAMP EMPORIUM
Following Zababba's example, Darboor Bin McGillicuddy soon operated a packet service out of Duun al Saandi. The letter above was sent to a young philatelist who had been lodging at the Motta Hotel in Moonar. Timmy Jones was one of the first freckled faced escapees from the local desert orphanage youth camp to apply for McGillicuddy's approval service.
McGillicuddy found that exotic animal stamps sold much better that his official self portrait stamps. He treasured the expertise of McBink for the design and production of many of his packets. One of their special sales pitches was extolling the excellence of purchasing stamps directly from the pirates who made them, thus avoiding meddlesome middlemen, or middling meddlemen, as they liked to call them.
Zebu & Tapir
2019
Eric Whollem
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Phoenician ships
2019
Eric Whollem
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DUUN AL SAANDI
Stamp Packet
2019
Eric Whollem
cyberart
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ruler of Duun al Saandi
2019
Eric Whollem
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DUUN AL SAANDI
Zababba Camel Express Mail
2019
Eric Whollem
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READ MORE ABOUT VUYANA:
FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO RESEARCH
THE DIGBY BROTHERS:
SCARABEUS BINKEL:
SAND DUNE STAMPS/ COLLECTIBLES AND CONTROVERSIES:
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