fantasy postage due issue of '1885'
by Eric Whollem
cyber edition
2016
copyright by the artist
BLACK BART POSTAGE STAMP
fantasy postage due issue of '1885'
by Eric Whollem
cyber edition
2016
copyright by the artist
These stamps are signed by 'H.R.' which is actually my fantasy designation of my grandfather, who I conceived as a source of production for Black Bart's postage due scam. Not content with his ill-gotten gains, the poet/robber here is seen as franking the stolen mails with postage due stamps....a type of poetic injustice.
Stringtown Printers is a fictional designation of a printing house, located ostensibly in Stringtown, a small community not far from Black Bart Road in Butte County, California.
This community is not named after a community gallows, but rather after the description of the old Maidu Indian village that once commanded the site, a village that was composed of a long row of houses, a string of dwellings.
BLACK BART POSTAGE STAMP
fantasy postage due issue of '1885'
by Eric Whollem
cyber edition
2016
copyright by the artist
BLACK BART BIOGRAPHICAL DATA FROM WIKIPEDIA:
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