Art Blog/Eric Whollem: Jun 7, 2018

Thursday, June 7, 2018

FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS & COVERS FROM CYBREA/ Cinderella Stamps by Eric Whollem/ ALCHEMICAL STAMPS/ Railway and Airmail Fantasy Covers/ PARAPHILATELY

CYBREA

Frodock Gnooston Railway cover

1882/ 2018 LOL

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

CYBREAN RAILWAY STAMPS

Frodock Gnooston established the first railway service in the Cybrean Free State in 1882. LOL. The cover above shows the use of the 5 Googoobitz Letter Rate stamps, with portrait images of Gnooston.

This cover was franked with a postage due stamp by the Cybrean post office, for delivery services in Tetragrammotoon. Quantoon is the capital of Cybrea.

CYBREA

Frodock Gnooston
railway letter rate stamps
1882/ 2018
Eric Whollem
laser editions
copyright by the artist

CYBREA
Gnooston Solar Visons
1917/ 2017
Eric Whollem
laser editon
copyright by the artist

CYBREA

Mater Mercantile cover

1869/ 2018 LOL

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

CYBREA

First Flight Cover

received in Undinia

1927/ 2018 LOL

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

FIRST FLIGHT COVER FROM CYBREA TO UNDINIA

The Cybrean Air Transport Company delivered this air mail letter to Undinia in 1927. The special airmail stamps were made by overprinting some Meddaleni Carwoki Erkhan commemorative stamps.

Upon receipt in Undinia, the cover was franked with an Undinian map stamp in Nereidia, the capital of Undinia.

CYBREA

Colonial Period

Digby Brothers Radio Mission

1953/ 2018 LOL

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

A RARE COVER FROM THE DIGBY BROTHERS COLONIAL PERIOD

When the Digby Brothers sailed out of Binkel County in Western Amphora, they spead their colonial empire wherever they landed. Ned Digby had a special daily talk show on radio. His program was used to spread propaganda for their pirate empire. Later when Digbyland was defeated by the Red Sea Dragons of West Merreminde, the folk of Cybrea were free to leave their forced labor in the poison oak plantations set up by the Digby Brothers. The poison oak was used to spike the main product of their homebrew industry. LOL

See the links at the bottom of this post to learn more about the Digby Brothers.

CYBREA

Celebrating Arknel Googoobitz

original manufacturer of the first coins of the land

2018

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

CYBREA
Arknel Googoobitz
2017
Eric Whollem
laser editions
copyright by the artist

CYBREA

Astronomer's Convention

received in Koora Izlendi

2018

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

CYBREA
Hermonium Fark
2017
Eric Whollem
laser editon
copyright by the artist

CYBREA

Hermonium Fark cover

2018

Eric Whollem

handmade stamp cover

copyright by the artist

THE STORY OF HERMONIUM FARK

Cybrea has a long, long history, stemming back into the Dark Agres. Hermonium Fark was an enlightened Alchemist of the 19th century, whose treatises on organic plant mixtures stimulated much interest among the Cybreans, who are a people with much interest in science of all forms. Fark was a modern Paracelsus, (Paracelsus was a progressive Renaissance alchemist, who threw out the Four Elements, and established reason in Alchemy.) Paracelcus lead alchemists away from the archaic overemphasis on mineral and metallic metaphors. Darlock Tunni ,who had been a life long resident of the Grorp Mountain Inn in Orbu, was a champion of Fark's ideas and who set up a special museum of the Magnum Opus in Tetragrammatoon. Tunni was a mayor of Orbu for many years; thus his image appears on the Orbu cancel.

Fark was especially interested in Paracelsus' theories of the Sylph. He attempted to chemically recreate the substratum of the Sylph, but was not entirely successful, having coagulated the effluvium of the homonunculi in regression. This was regarded nevertheless as an excellent step for determining the master calcination of the Soror Mystica.