tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78998084842047942952024-02-06T18:44:47.794-08:00Art Blog/Eric WhollemMythic symbolism, earth paints, ceramic sculpture, paintings, faux postage stamps, & poetry.ERIC WHOLLEMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06892084505831977781noreply@blogger.comBlogger1087125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899808484204794295.post-37882079904659811332023-03-06T22:20:00.001-08:002023-03-07T02:31:37.062-08:00FANTASY STAMPS by Eric Whollem<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FN4SK7CKdYp5PINqJRWCO_YyHOB99HegWT6hjoeiap6kNo5dS6J-gvSxjqBhwiI9PTWpSjZCcI9OiO4m93miRhVHkt1Nr9dJVeqzzWtvVOZHKDzTS8Y504ubz7p2ctGYqJoCFhtbaTXFCU2ntrFW1w7yIjsoiXY4-inerII0m_Dmx83dlxvssWTg_A/s1412/GROT%20EUBIA%20gabri%20COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1412" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FN4SK7CKdYp5PINqJRWCO_YyHOB99HegWT6hjoeiap6kNo5dS6J-gvSxjqBhwiI9PTWpSjZCcI9OiO4m93miRhVHkt1Nr9dJVeqzzWtvVOZHKDzTS8Y504ubz7p2ctGYqJoCFhtbaTXFCU2ntrFW1w7yIjsoiXY4-inerII0m_Dmx83dlxvssWTg_A/w640-h470/GROT%20EUBIA%20gabri%20COVER.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">GROT EUBIA</p><p style="text-align: center;">Caledarmion post mark</p><p style="text-align: center;">1876 </p><p style="text-align: center;">fantasy cover</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>ritish Periodical Revenue stamps for the American colonies originally were handstamps or sometimes applied by embossing tools.</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>The collecting of revenue stamps became popular 70 years prior to the issuance of the first postage stamps. Thus cinderella stamp collecting predated philately by many years' revenue stamps are considered a main category of cinderella stamps.</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>John Bourke is considered to be among the first serious collectors of revenue stamps and began to collect and catalog them in 1774.</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">ussey, a Canadian stamp fabricator, was long regarded as the first fantasy postage stamp maker, until in recent years the <i>New England Whalers</i> stamp, a faux postage edition, appeared in the auction catalogs. The <i>New England Whalers</i> stamp was created in 1851, while the <i>Winan's City Post</i> first appeared in 1862.</span></b></span></div>
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<b>Kers City Post</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">amuel Allen Taylor created the first fantasy local post shortly after the Winan's City Post appeared....Taylor was from Scotland but lived for a time in Canada where he worked collaboratively with Nutter, another stamp fabricator.</span></b></div>
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<b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Utah Territorial Postage</span></b></div>
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<i><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">and was forged by other stamp makers later on</span></b></i></div>
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<b>SAMUEL ALLEN TAYLOR</b></div>
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<i><b>Taylor's work was copied by</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">amuel Allen Taylor created 5000 fantasy and bogus stamps during his lifetime, making him the most prolific faux stamp maker of the 19th century. He created faux charity labels, making him an innovator in the area of poster stamps as well.</span></b></div>
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<b>Poster stamps are stamps that advertise events or commemorate people, but are never intended for postal use.</b></div>
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<b>Many stamps created by Taylor are from countries which had never issued postage stamps, such as Paraguay.</b></div>
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<i><b>created by an unknown French stamp collector</b></i></div>
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<i><b>1861</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">mysterious French stamp collector began creating painted postage stamps in the 1860's. He may have been French Canadian, as many of his fantasies have Canadian labels. He created hundreds of stamps.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>created by an unknown French stamp collector</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>1861</b></i></span></div>
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<b>Stamp essays and proofs are often times hand painted, but these Canadian stamps never were intended as proofs for any known postal authority. Baffin Island is north of Canada and populated primarily by indigenous Inuit people.</b></div>
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<b>In the 1960's Donald Evans became well known for his hand painted postal fantasies....but historically the French artist predated him by a hundred years.</b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0xa79TlJjwjJ350AUrq6FMV7W3DxEKA8jGbHk9wBKwS_xe938aH4s5kM2zMuTj2bbqGw3YHL1ZEo7d_VtxPbujZZ7ztvWcmjaCA7qLnyvjFVU3SbC-ESaHcMEYBxYU6rWtT_cbXfLpu4/s400/austria-franz-joseph-land-bogus_360_9279c31f92df384a9c69be8f87b92f8a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0xa79TlJjwjJ350AUrq6FMV7W3DxEKA8jGbHk9wBKwS_xe938aH4s5kM2zMuTj2bbqGw3YHL1ZEo7d_VtxPbujZZ7ztvWcmjaCA7qLnyvjFVU3SbC-ESaHcMEYBxYU6rWtT_cbXfLpu4/s320/austria-franz-joseph-land-bogus_360_9279c31f92df384a9c69be8f87b92f8a.jpg" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">FRANZ JOSEPH LAND</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">a bogus or phantom stamp</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>of an Arctic archipelago</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>1874</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span><span style="font-size: medium;">hantom stamps was a popular designation of fantasy stamps during the 19th century.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.29px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspZG1avPEqT_NuFD-CAs5XdKVsS9Ga3rrwejeUqVV8iJy7nxGlsvJpBWiKCal0E6d5E0gcYxAa4yHreDgrQJB1ALuOSc1JCnbmWA2AOIh6yMWnnEb0N6CmqN2lA6X8Wwrohi84Jhphrji/s1600/j.c.jay+stamp+cover.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="425" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspZG1avPEqT_NuFD-CAs5XdKVsS9Ga3rrwejeUqVV8iJy7nxGlsvJpBWiKCal0E6d5E0gcYxAa4yHreDgrQJB1ALuOSc1JCnbmWA2AOIh6yMWnnEb0N6CmqN2lA6X8Wwrohi84Jhphrji/s640/j.c.jay+stamp+cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<b>J.C. JAY</b></div>
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<b>Richwoods Dispatch fantasy local carrier stamp</b></div>
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<i><b>tied to cover with rubber stamp</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">his cover is an example of early <i>Mail Art</i>....It shows fantasy stamp by J.C. Jay, a young stamp dealer who had been persecuted by philatelic societies for attempting to sell his own faux postage stamps.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>1881</b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">e used to hand deliver mail in his own home town franking the envelopes with his own private carrier labels.</span></b></div>
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<b>Today his covers are valuable rarities.</b></div>
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<b>PHOTO STAMP MAKER</b></div>
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<b>patented by Thomas Huhn</b></div>
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<i><b>and also Genelli</b></i></div>
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<i><b>1887</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">hoto portrait stamps were popular in the 19th century on into the 20th century. </span></b><b style="font-size: 17.29px;">They were often ordered by colleges and universities, private businesses and individuals.</b></div>
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<b>COLLEGE STAMPS</b></div>
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<b>photo stamps of graduates</b></div>
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text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial;">L.DUGARDIN </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Artiste Peintre</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">early artistamp</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dugardin first exhibited in Paris in the 1850s</span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">date of this stamp is unknown</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.29px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; clear: both; font-family: trebuchet, "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.29px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; 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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">icronations, with private autonomous post offices began to appear in the 19th century....<i>Deh Sadang</i> out of Malaya is another such micronation. Elleore in Denmark became well known in the 1940's. </span></b></div>
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G<b>OLD ISLAND</b></div>
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<b>fantasy micronation</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">Today many artistamp makers describe their stamps as </span><i style="font-size: 17.29px;">micronational.</i></b></div>
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<b>VIENNESE SECESSIONIST POSTER STAMP</b></div>
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<b>1908</b></div>
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<i><b>this stamp was created as an</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">oster stamps first appeared in the mid nineteenth century. They are stamps created as advertisements...not for postal use...They were called <i>Art Stamps</i> in the early 20th century when they were at their heyday as popular collectibles.</span></b></div>
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<b>1912</b></div>
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<b>POSTER STAMP EXCHANGE SOCIETY</b></div>
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<b>stamp depicting a British</b></div>
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<i><b>Mulready Prepaid envelope</b></i></div>
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ITALIAN FUTURIST MAIL ART</div>
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<i>the Futurists seem to have</i></div>
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<i>developed the first truly modern Mail Art</i></div>
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<i>stamp covers</i></div>
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<b>GERMAN INFLATIONARY BANKNOTES</b></div>
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<i><b>1921</b></i></div>
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<i><b>perforated block</b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">otgeld, or inflationary currency, was issued in great numbers in Germany after WWI. These were provisionanal notes. Not all such notes were perforated.</span></b></div>
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<b>Interestingly enough some towns and even private individuals issued such notes as money makers to sell to collectors, overriding the interest in creating a medium of monetary exchange....In this regard they are cousins of artistamps....something non-essential, but works of art.</b></div>
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<b>And like micronations who minted coins as well as stamps, German communities also minted metallic money for the same reasons as the faux banknotes.</b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial;">by Russ Sabor</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Iowa</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial;">1933</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">uring the Great Depression Russ Sabor had these stamps printed as gifts for those who could not afford postage stamps. They are embellished with the phrase 'Sabor Telestamps.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>from the 1960's</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 17.29px;"><i><b>this was used as an illustration in one of</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">ome of Donald Evans handpainted fantasy stamps from the sixties by coincidence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17.29px;">resemble the works of Sabor. Sabor's stamps were printed in many different colors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17.29px;">and gained only a limited notoriety in the 1930's, while Evan's works were influential among fantasy stamp creators during his lifetime.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">ail from prisoner of war camps usually required no postage, but was sent free </span></b><b style="font-size: 17.29px;">of franking. But Karl Sessler was an artist and did not want to waste an opportunity to use his skills.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">K</span><span style="font-size: 17.29px;">arl Scheswig, like the French Canadian stamp fabricator of 1861, is known today </span></b></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 17.29px;">for his hand painted stamps. These were created in a German Nazi concentration camp. And are famous for being protest stamps.</b></div>
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“…in 1887, two patents were issued for “stamp portrait apparatus,” first to Henry Kuhn, later to Genelli, both of St. Louis, Mo. They both copied a previously taken image into multiple stamp-sized reproductions on perforated, gummed photo paper. These are the earliest true photo stamps. Their popularity persisted until the early 20th century. Little is known about the makers of photo stamps in the U.S., even less for those overseas. Unless the maker is identified on the stamp, it is hard to determine even in what country the stamp was made.”</div>
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PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMP<br />
Dr. Forster, Dentist</div>
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<i>1899</i></div>
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H.W. SMITH</div>
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photo portrait stamp</div>
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<i>circa 1899</i></div>
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EASTMAN COLLEGE</div>
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photo portrait</div>
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PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMP</div>
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by Genelli</div>
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<i>1885</i></div>
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PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMPS</div>
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COLLEGE PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMPS</div>
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by Genelli</div>
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<i>St. Louis</i></div>
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<b>Colleges and Universities were avid patrons of photo portrait stamps.....Sometimes the entire art department was depicted on photo portrait stamp album pages. Each genre of college graduate was similarly honored. </b><br />
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stamp cover</div>
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COLLEGE PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMPS</div>
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PHOTO PORTRAIT STAMP ADVERTISEMENT</div>
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Johann Laifle</div>
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<i>circa 1899</i></div>
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PHOTO ART STAMP</div>
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<i>1897</i></div>
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<i>Venezia, Italy</i></div>
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CENTAPICTURES</div>
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photo stamps</div>
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<i>circa 1940</i></div>
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<b>Well into the 20th century photo portrait stamps continued in popularity....Often soldiers and sailors would send home such stamps to their families...</b>.<br />
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<b>Ever since the invention of photo copying machines, fantasy stamp makers have utlized these printers in conjunction with digital media to create fantasy stamps, often called 'artistamps' in great numbers. But it was German ingenuity that developed the first photo stamps in 1887.</b><br />
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AMERICAN COLONIAL NEWSPAPER TAX STAMP PARODY<br />
stamps like these were added to<br />
<i>colonial periodicals to mock British tax stamps in the late 1700's.</i><br />
<i>The Stamp Tax was a major consideration of the</i><br />
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THE NEW ENGLAND WHALERS<br />
Home Post Express<br />
<i>was a very early fantasy stamp</i><br />
<i>woodblock edition</i><br />
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THE WINANS CITY POST<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>hough in the 19th century many fantasy stamps were made, they were mostly <i>postal carrier labels</i>, a type of stamp whose creation was not illegal. In those days in America at least to make fanstasy postage stamps was a crime, considered to be a type of counterfeiting.</div>
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Canada was a leading center of fantasy carrier labels.</div>
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Carrier labels were stamps created by private postal carriers, who would carry letters from the post office to private homes and businesses, as it was years later that central governments would provide home delivery of mail.</div>
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The invention of advertising stamps began in Britain in 1860.....but by the end of the century such stamps, called <i>reklamemarken </i>proliferated in Germany, Austria and spread through the world.</div>
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Today such advertising stamps are called <i>poster stamps</i>....</div>
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Poster stamps were hot collectibles in the early days, with societies catering to collectors.</div>
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Stamp albums were made especially for poster stamp collectors. Poster stamp societies arose to accomodate people interested in the genre.</div>
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The stamps posted here in this blog post, are examples of poster stamps of an atypical variety....comical fantasy stamps....Such comical stamps appeared later with issues created by<i> Mad</i> <i>Magazine</i> in the 1960's. Such comical stamps are categorized as <i>artistamps</i> today. Bidner, a fantasy stamp collector, coined the term, <i>artistamp</i>, in 1982.</div>
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The numbers appearing on the 'tourism' stamps appearing in this post are a type of faux denomination, which makes them quite different than poster stamps. <i>Faux postage stamps</i> are considered to be synonymous with artistamps.</div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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Les Etats Barbaru</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he Barbaru States, or Les Etats Barbaru, was the name of an old pirate federation along the Barbaru Coast. <i>The Wench's Mint</i> on Pelly's Nest, an island operated by the infamous pirate captain, was the most prolific stamp producer in the region.<br />
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Included in this federation were Pelly's Nest, Skag Dog Republic, the Mukka Republic, Kiklop Ada, and Rotter's Pit.</div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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<i>1899 lol</i></div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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<i>1903 lol</i></div>
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KIKLOP ADA POST</div>
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Les Etats Barbaru</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he 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.</div>
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Francois Ducat, a French pirate, allied with the Turks appears on the cover below, unfortunately damaged by sea water.</div>
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KIKLOP ADA POST</div>
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<i>1910 lol</i></div>
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ROTTER'S PIT POST</div>
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<i>1910 lol</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he 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.</div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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An Apple a Day</div>
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<i>1896 lol</i></div>
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PELLY'S NEST</div>
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Barbaru Coast Maiden</div>
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<i>1899 lol</i></div>
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Daddy Dearest</div>
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<i>1901 lol</i></div>
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CLASSIC COVER OF PELLY'S NEST<br />
cancelled with coins from Pelly's hoard<br />
<i>date uncertain (some experts conjecture early in the 21st century)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he Tale of how Jonah Digby lead his crew to the shores of the <i>Pelican Coast</i> to establish a free state for his pirate crew. The <i>video</i> below reveals all.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>ff the Undinian coast the island of Worro Worro prospered in obscurity until the day that a ship of pirates landed. </div>
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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</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>carabeus Binkel, who had colonized the Barbaru Coast, establishing his <i>Barbaru Frie Stajt</i> 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.</div>
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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, <i>Zabbaba McBink</i>. Shiek Zabbaba had set up the Zabbabian Emirates in conjunction with help of his old shipmates.</div>
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These stamps are parodies of what stamp collectors call 'Sand Dune Stamps'. . .bogus stamps from imaginary emirates.</div>
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letter from the Triton, a moon of Uranus</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>riton 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.</div>
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On Triton, a moon of Uranus, they found a colony of indigenous beings, related to people from Worm World.</div>
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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.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>inky 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.</div>
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
Desert Maiden<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Postal Tax Cover</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
Map Stamp<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Jack's Grill and Oasis</div>
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<i>local post</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">JACK'S GRILL AND OASIS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>owards the early years of the 19th century a certain Captain Jack became known as a great explorer of the mysteries of Africa. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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 <i>Eight Mysteries of Neferneferland</i>.</div>
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Jack's Oasis</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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JACK'S GRILL & OASIS</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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John Lee Hooker</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>f 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.</div>
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When asked about this, Ms.Tinker Belle, the stage manager of the <i>John Lee Hooker Festival</i>, referred us to the works of Edgar Cayce for elucidation of this point. Others may cite obscure texts found in versions of the Egyptian <i>Book of the Dead</i>, a text popularized in the 20th century by Carl Jung and Jerry Garcia.</div>
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<i>Nefer</i>, of course, means 'beautiful' in the ancient Egyptian language. </div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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PHILATELAE</div>
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Neferneferland cancellation</div>
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General El Beebi cover</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
Al Qook Duck Farm letter<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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JACK'S LOCAL POST<br />
Nile Maiden<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
Percival Ramses Al Qook<br />
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
Waiting for Osiris<br />
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NEFERNEFERLAND<br />
The Chamber of Initiation<br />
<i>Sarcophagus of Abydos</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Beel-Zala Ferry</div>
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<i>Lake Wahmia Ferryboat Service</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>l 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.'</div>
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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</div>
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AL TAZWIR<br />
The emir<br />
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<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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AL TAZWIR<br />
English bluebells<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Al Jinn Rare Books</div>
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AL TAZWIR<br />
Vintage British paperback book covers<br />
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Lake Wahmia Ferryboat & Railway Parcel Service</div>
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<i>Al Tazwir Railway Letter Rate</i></div>
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American bulldog<br />
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Rossetti Paintings</div>
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<i>British art series</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">BRITISH ART ON THE STAMPS OF AL TAZWIR</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti appears on the above cover. Rossetti was the founder of the Preraphaelite art movement from Britain.</div>
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The desert peoples of the Zababbian region much appreciate the exotic fine arts of the northern countries.</div>
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seals Charity Stamp<br />
<i>semi-postal</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Starwhale Cover/ Subaquatic Mail/ Morriguni Cetacean Transport</div>
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<i>relayed through various countries to the Empire of the West</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Starwhale Cover</div>
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<i>reverse showing postal censorship in the Empire of the West</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Mermaid High Command Cover</div>
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<i>showing postmasters' cancels en route to Dogoland</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Ecstasy of the Kelp Cover to Transhyperborea</div>
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<i>showing postmasters' cancels en route</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Bird Woman Cover</div>
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<i>to Outer Aquaria</i></div>
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<i>featuring cancellations from way stations</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<i>copyright by the artist</i></div>
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Cover from Towline in the Phocine Isles</div>
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<i>to Seal Rock</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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MERREMINDE<br />
Phocine Isle Local Post Cancellation<br />
<i>Towline</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Ship of the Snakes of Imagination Cover</div>
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<i>to Rekku in Xawar</i></div>
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<i>site of the yearly Festival of the Sea</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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MERREMINDE<br />
Cover to Sasquatchia<br />
<i>with postmaster's marks on the way</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Cover to Sasquatchia/ Reverse<br />
<i>franked in Northern Amphitritonia</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Seal Courier Mail<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Seal Courier Mail<br />
<i>reverse of cover</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seals Charity Semi-Postal Stamp<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Queen Mer's Marine Hospice<br />
<i>semi-postal</i><br />
<i>Seal Rock Local Post</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seals<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Queen Mer's Marine Hospice<br />
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Eric Whollem<br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seals<br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seals<br />
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MERREMINDE<br />
Save the Seal Seals<br />
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<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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OGYGIA</div>
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Kered-Sebo Goat Cart Route Cover</div>
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<i>with Goat Fodder Fee 5f paid</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THE GOAT CART DELIVERY SERVICE OF OGYGIA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>gygia, being a remote island, had to be innovative when it came to mail delivery. As goats were quite common on the island, it seemed logical to use them for mail transport....The only difficulty was being sure that the goats were properly fed before venturing forth on the treacherous mountain trails of Ogygia.</div>
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Postage due was seldom seen among Ogygian letters, as the funds surcharged for axel grease, ruminant relief funds, and goat fodder more than made up for insufficient postage.</div>
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OGYGIA'S LOCATION</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> map of Ogygia appears on the stamps reproduced here. Historians from ancient Greece to the modern Middle Ages preoccupied themselves with developing a history of Ogygia, which has been located as far afield as Gozo in the Maltese Archipelago to the mid-Atlantic Ocean.<br />
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OGYGIA</div>
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Map produced by the Ogygian Cartographic Society LOL</div>
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<i>2016</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>gygia has long been considered as a likely candidate for the True Atlantis. LOL</div>
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OGYGIA</div>
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Inaugural Goat Cart Courier Route</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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OGYGIA</div>
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Mt. Eregon Goat Cart Delivery</div>
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<i>Ogygian Overland Express Mail</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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OGYGIA</div>
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Ogygian Overland Express</div>
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<i>Axle Grease Fee 5f</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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OGYGIA</div>
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The Five Lakes of Cronos</div>
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OGYGIA</div>
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Goat Cart Delivery Mail</div>
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OGYGIA<br />
conceived as an island where Odysseus<br />
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OGYGIA<br />
Calypso<br />
<i>2016</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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GOZO<br />
an island north of Malta<br />
<i>among the many isles interpreted as Ogygia</i><br />
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Memories of the Moon</div>
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<i>Moon Mail Express</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<i>copyright by the artist</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> CUDLEY, LUNAR EXPLORER</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span>rofessor Cudley and his co-worker M.V.Scroobic are famous in the Republic of the Moon for having established numerous National Monuments and Parks on the moon, for the delight of the Loonese population.</div>
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This letter was sent from the colony of refugees from the Moon, who in the latter days returned to the earth, where they established <i>The City of the Moon</i>, an independent state in the Barbaru Highlands of Southeastern Amphora.</div>
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Stamps on the cover above are inscribed <i>'Memories of the Moon,'</i> part of an ongoing series of stamp issues by the Loonese Post.</div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Memories of the Moon</div>
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<i>Scroobic's Crater</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON<br />
Jupiter's Moons</div>
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Cover to the Zababbian Emirates</div>
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<i>Time Warp Mail</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Reverese of cover to the Zababbian Emirates</div>
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<i>Barbauru Highland Mail</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Cover sent to the Lunar homeland</div>
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<i>Syzygdite Postal Carrier</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLATYTUDINOUS MOROXON</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>oroxon, a famous scientist on the Moon, is known for his invention of the <i>Loonese Perfinator</i>, a device utilized to add security <i>perfins</i> to stamps from the lunar post office. He appears on the stamps on the cover above.</div>
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He later established his own republic on the<i> Dark Side of the Moon</i>. This he called Syzygium. New Syzygium is a town in the north of the City of the Moon colony in Amphora. In was in New Syzygium that Moroxon retired in his old age.</div>
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CITY OF THE MOON<br />
Platytudinous Moroxon<br />
<i>with city cancel from Perffa</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Moons of Mars</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he large purple stamp on the cover above shows Quantus Qwo, the first Postmaster of the Moon....After the return to earth, he became the first postmaster of The City of the Moon.</div>
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His <i>magnum opus</i> has been an ongoing treatise on the known and unknown stamps of the Universe.</div>
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The stamps above celebrate <i>Phobos</i> and Deimos, the moons of Mars.</div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Quantus Qwo</div>
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<i>postmaster</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Letter to Montu Gargantui</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Moon Stamp/ Towards a New Paraphilately</div>
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<i>with New Syzygium cancellation</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON</div>
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Cudley Moon Park issue</div>
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<i>received in Perffa</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON<br />
Cudley's Moon Park<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Letter to Terpe in Cymru</div>
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<i>postal tracking cancel No. 939</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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CITY OF THE MOON<br />
M.V.Scroobic Lunar Explorer'<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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CITY OF THE MOON<br />
Loona to Amphora Retroactive Delivery<br />
<i>Time Warp Mail</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A LETTER TO THE POSTMASTER OF GONDWANALAND</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">G</span>wog, postmaster of Gondwanaland, centuries in the future was transported to the Moon, where, learning the art of <i>Time Travel</i>, established colonies on Pluto and the Moons of Neptune....At long last he decided the climate was better on <i>Alternative Earth</i>, and ventured to Amphora to establish a new country, <i>Gwogtonia.</i></div>
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This letter, sent via <i>Retroactive Delivery</i>, may well have ended up in the <i>Dead Letter Office of the Moon</i>, caught in a<i> Time Warp</i>.<br />
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A stamp from the Loonese Remnant on the Moon appears on the lower left hand corner of this letter.<br />
The Loonese, of course, are the inhabitants of the Moon, who reduced in numbers by the recent migrations to the Barbaru Highlands of Amphora, maintained a skeleton crew on the Moon, now an orb dangerously low on pizza and oxygen. </div>
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The letter was <i>Censored</i> for unknown reasons, no doubt relating to sensitive matters of State. LOL</div>
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See the links below on Gondwilli, Gondwanaland and Gwogtonia to get more of the story of Gwog's colonial empire.</div>
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<a href="http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/republic%20of%20the%20moon"><i>http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/republic%20of%20the%20moon</i></a></div>
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<a href="https://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/gondwilli"><i>https://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/gondwilli</i></a></div>
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MERREMINDE</div>
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1000th Anniversary of the Union of the Queen Sisters</div>
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<i>of Merreminde, Moruvgach & Arkonia</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THE THREE MERMAID QUEENS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> thousand years ago Queen Mer of Merreminde and her sister queens of the neighboring nations of Moruvgach and Arkonia created a special elite society for the advancement of <i>mer kind</i>.</div>
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The three flowers on the embroidered cover of their sacred pact, <i>The Merrecunium</i>, symbolizes their sacred union. Princess Sarrodiettu is ruler of Arkonia. Empress Merrianna is the leader of the folk of Moruvgach.<br />
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Treaties like the <i>Edicts of the West Merreminde Postal Union</i>, and the <i>Alliance of Mermaid Entrepeneurs</i> are just a few of the official links between these mermaid nations.<br />
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The postmasters of Moruvgach and Arkonia honored this cover as it passed to it's destination in Rotilli.</div>
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Map Cover</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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MERREMINDE<br />
Map Stamp<br />
<i>with Queen Mer</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Keel Town Music Festival</div>
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<i>cover received in Gorgonopolis, Gwogton and the Alayan Isles</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">KEEL TOWN, MARITIME HUB OF MERREMINDE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">K</span>eel Town rose to prominence 500 years ago when it became the commercial and maritime epicenter of Merreminde. The ships of Merreminde have traveled to the far ends of Amphora. </div>
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This letter was sent to the Alayan Isles off the coast of Alaya, a nation closely linked to the Federal District of Amphora. Also the location of the Amphoran Postal Union is in Utti on fhe Alayan coast.</div>
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MERREMINDE</div>
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MERREMINDE</div>
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Festival of the Return to the Sea</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>nce a year in Merreminde there is a sacred day called <i>Aquagenesis</i>, wherein the Queen of the realm is ritually encased in a special coffin, which is then sunk into the sea. A few days later she is seen swimming in the bay.</div>
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This letter was sent by <i>The Mermaid High Command</i> to the Seership Society in the City of the Moon, a nation state to the west of Merreminde in the Barbaru Highlands. The letter was passed by the Zukka postal censor, who may have been alerted to reports of contraband seaweed arising out of Mereminde, (<i>a false report, by the way</i>). The Loonese people of the City of the Moon were required to charge a postal tax of 800<i> Asteris</i> to release the letter from the <i>Gartuw Dead Letter Office</i> in Zukka. </div>
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Neighboring nations to Merreminde have little real comprehension of the significance of the sacred rites of the mermaids.</div>
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MERREMINDE</div>
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The Queen's Return to the Sea</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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Queen Mer</div>
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MERREMINDE</div>
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Keel Town cover</div>
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<i>received in Aquitoonia, Undinia, & Worro Worro</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Mer's Bestiary</div>
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<i>Royal Zoo cover</i></div>
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Railway cover to Kwata Paak</div>
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<i>with vintage American advertising stamps.</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
American advertising art<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
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American seed catalog art<br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
American seed catalog art<br />
<i>color essays with cancellations</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Old City of Zala stamps</div>
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Zala Cancellation<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>ahmia is one of the <i>Zababbian Emirates</i>, founded by Shiek Zababba of Scarabia. Zala is the capital city. Wahmia is known for it's railway system that goes into the mountains of the<i> Barbaru Highlands,</i> connecting Zala with the City of the Moon and Kwata Paak.</div>
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Shiek Abu Karooq is the <i>emir</i> of Wahmia.</div>
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Railway stamp<br />
<i>with cancels from Wahmia and Koodli</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
The Old City of Zala<br />
<i>with various cancellations</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Old City of Zala stamp</div>
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<i>reverse of cover</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
The Old City of Zala<br />
<i>with various cancellations</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Sheik Abu Karooq<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
The Old City of Zala<br />
<i>with various cancellations</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Railway cover to Kwata Paak</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Railway Stamps<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Inaugural Route from Zala to the City of the Moon</div>
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<i>with stamps celebrating European artistic masters</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Art of Leonardo<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Pierre Bonnard<br />
<i>French Impressionist</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Art of Titian<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Buckeye Lawn Mower<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
tribute to American advertising<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
The Globe Lawn Mower<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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WAHMIA ALBARID<br />
Excelsior Side Wheel Mower<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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cover received by Cymru Steamlines Carrier Service</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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ruins of Medini's<br />
<i>original wallpaper factory</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">SPECULATIONS ON THE ANCIENT HOMELAND OF THE WELSH CELTS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ymru is one of the old names for Wales....but anciently the Summer Isles were known as the mythic homeland of the Cymry folk. The stamp on this cover is my fantasy interpretation of the postal system of the Summer Isles.</div>
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I theorize that the Summer Isles may represent Crimea, as many of the singing traditions of the Caucasians who migrated into Crimea involve their Bardic lore, which corresponds in many details to that of the<i> Eistedfodd</i> music of the Welsh.</div>
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The Crimeans today call themselves the <i>Kirim</i>, a term not dissimilar to <i>Cymry</i>. Also it is of passing interest that the Crimean Peninsula has long been considered a summer retreat for Russians and Ukrainians. The Kirim are related to the people of the Caucasus Mountains.</div>
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<a href="https://ajammc.com/2016/06/28/bard-of-the-caucasus-sayat-nova/"><i>https://ajammc.com/2016/06/28/bard-of-the-caucasus-sayat-nova/</i></a></div>
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paquebot delivery</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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Sailor Castaways<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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paquebot delivery reverse of cover</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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address cachet<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Agrarian cover<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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camel herder<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Steamship Express cover to Mettagundy<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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The Eagle of Medini<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Mettagundy postal franking on reverse of cover<br />
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<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Steed of Medinia<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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Wallpaper Company<br />
<i>letter to the Postal Printing Services</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">MEDINI'S WALLPAPER FACTORY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>tamp collectors often refer to the proliferation of cinderella stamps from the Trucial States area of the Arabian Peninsula as <i>'wallpaper stamps.'</i></div>
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However in Waraq Aljudran, found today in southwestern Amphora, wallpaper is a commodity held in high regard. The factory in Medini proudly manufactures sacks, rick sheets, oil sheets and tarpaulings as well as postage stamps. Few of the Waraq Aljudran stamps are large enough to cover a wall, thus the designations of philatelists from the<i> Outer World</i> are regarded with little acceptance.</div>
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Waraq Aljudran, in fact, literally translates from the Arabic as<i> 'wall paper!" LOL</i></div>
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WARAQ ALJUDRAN<br />
Sheik Ali Qiwani Medini<br />
<i>with Medini portrait cancellation</i><br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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ERIC WHOLLEMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06892084505831977781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899808484204794295.post-50075299183888060782019-03-06T21:45:00.000-08:002019-03-13T18:27:07.325-07:00DUUN AL SAANDI CINDERELLA STAMPS & COVERS/ Fantasy Philately by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS<div style="text-align: center;">
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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Archaic Ships</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">DARBOOR BIN McGILLICUDDY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>hortly 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 <i>Barbaru Frie Stajt</i> to the onslaught of the notorious Digby Brothers. This was the beginning of that loose federation of tribal states called the <i>Zababbian Emirates</i>. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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Zababba Camel Express Mail</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THE ZABABBA CAMEL EXPRESS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>arboor and Zababba conceived themselves as <i>Hidden Imams</i>, styling themselves after the famous <i>Imams of Chokar and Duwan</i>. 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<i> Glassy Shore</i> had ever conceived of a letter before . . . or much less a bill sent by mail . . . or an advertisement or flyer from the market.</div>
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Having little recourse to horses, they turned to camels for enterprise and courier purposes. Thus the <i>Zababba Camel Express</i> came to be.</div>
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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DUUN AL SAANDI<br />
Phoenician ship<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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McGillicuddy's Glass Works</div>
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2019</div>
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Eric Whollem</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">McGILLICUDDY'S GLASS WORKS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>aving 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.</div>
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VUYANA POST OFFICE</div>
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Samuel Allen Taylor stamp</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>aylorsville 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<i> if not completely outlawed</i> in the savage lands of the <i>civilized </i>from whence he came.</div>
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It seems that the Sea of Glass region had become a sort of art colony for rogue paraphilatelists.</div>
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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Animals of Duun al Saandi</div>
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<i>Zebu & Tapir</i></div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">McGILLICUDDY'S STAMP EMPORIUM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>ollowing 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.</div>
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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 <i>directly from the pirates </i>who made them, thus avoiding meddlesome middlemen, or<i> middling meddlemen</i>, as they liked to call them.</div>
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DUUN AL SAANDI<br />
Zebu & Tapir<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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DUUN AL SAANDI<br />
Phoenician ships<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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Stamp Packet</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<i>cyberart</i></div>
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SHEIK DARBOOR McGILLICUDDY<br />
ruler of Duun al Saandi<br />
<i>2019</i><br />
<i>Eric Whollem</i><br />
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DUUN AL SAANDI</div>
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Zababba Camel Express Mail</div>
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<i>2019</i></div>
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<i>Eric Whollem</i></div>
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<a href="http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/vuyana"><i>http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/vuyana</i></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO RESEARCH</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE DIGBY BROTHERS:</span></div>
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<a href="http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/digbyland"><i>http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/digbyland</i></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SCARABEUS BINKEL:</span></div>
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<i><a href="http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/2016/08/scarabeus-binkel-and-land-of-giants.html">http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/2016/08/scarabeus-binkel-and-land-of-giants.html</a></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SAND DUNE STAMPS/ COLLECTIBLES AND CONTROVERSIES</span>:</div>
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<a href="http://www.rap.com.au/vPages.asp?vPagesID=JUN+08&fbclid=IwAR3eAHPepZFyM9ICh3nvsJQsSqBs2CGJK6fH04cI2lnRfGMRmk7QVjKC-6o"><i>http://www.rap.com.au/vPages.asp?vPagesID=JUN+08&fbclid=IwAR3eAHPepZFyM9ICh3nvsJQsSqBs2CGJK6fH04cI2lnRfGMRmk7QVjKC-6o</i></a></div>
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