Sunday, March 31, 2019

MERREMINDE CINDERELLA STAMPS AND COVERS/ Legends of the Mermaids by Eric Whollem/ PARAPHILATELY



MERREMINDE
1000th Anniversary of the Union of the Queen Sisters
of Merreminde, Moruvgach & Arkonia
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE THREE MERMAID QUEENS

A 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 mer kind.

The three flowers on the embroidered cover of their sacred pact, The Merrecunium, symbolizes their sacred union. Princess Sarrodiettu is ruler of Arkonia. Empress Merrianna is the leader of the folk of Moruvgach.

Treaties like the Edicts of the West Merreminde Postal Union, and the Alliance of Mermaid Entrepeneurs are just a few of the official links between these mermaid nations.

The postmasters of Moruvgach and Arkonia honored this cover as it passed to it's destination in Rotilli.



MERREMINDE
Map Cover
Imperial Steamship Mail Line
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




MERREMINDE
Map Stamp
with Queen Mer
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




MERREMINDE
Keel Town Music Festival
cover received in Gorgonopolis, Gwogton and the Alayan Isles
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


KEEL TOWN, MARITIME HUB OF MERREMINDE

Keel 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. 

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.



MERREMINDE
Mayor of Keel Town
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




MERREMINDE
Festival of the Return to the Sea
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE QUEEN'S RETURN TO THE SEA

Once a year in Merreminde there is a sacred day called Aquagenesis, 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.

This letter was sent by The Mermaid High Command 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, (a false report, by the way). The Loonese people of the City of the Moon were required to charge a postal tax of 800 Asteris to release the letter from the Gartuw Dead Letter Office in Zukka. 

Neighboring nations to Merreminde have little real comprehension of the significance of the sacred rites of the mermaids.


MERREMINDE
The Queen's Return to the Sea
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




MERREMINDE
Queen Mer
received in Pelly's Nest, Cabo Apsarii, and Dogoland
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




MERREMINDE
Keel Town cover
received in Aquitoonia, Undinia, & Worro Worro
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



MERREMNDE
Mer's Bestiary
Royal Zoo cover
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



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Friday, March 22, 2019

RAILWAY STAMP COVERS FROM WAHMIA ALBARID/ Arabic Cinderella Stamps by Eric Whollem/ PARAPHILATELY




WAHMIA ALBARID
Railway cover to Kwata Paak
with vintage American advertising stamps.
2019
Eric Whollem


WAHMIA ALBARID
American advertising art
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WAHMIA ALBARID
American seed catalog art
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
American seed catalog art
color essays with cancellations
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





WAHMIA ALARID
Old City of Zala stamps
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WAHMIA ALBARID
Zala Cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WAHMIA ALBARID

Wahmia is one of the Zababbian Emirates, 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 Barbaru Highlands, connecting Zala with the City of the Moon and Kwata Paak.

Shiek Abu Karooq is the emir of Wahmia.


WAHMIA ALBARID
Railway stamp
with cancels from Wahmia and Koodli
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
The Old City of Zala
with various cancellations
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Old City of Zala stamp
reverse of cover
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
The Old City of Zala
with various cancellations
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WAHMIA ALBARID
Sheik Abu Karooq
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
The Old City of Zala
with various cancellations
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Railway cover to Kwata Paak
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WAHMIA ALBARID
Railway Stamps
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Inaugural Route from Zala to the City of the Moon
with stamps celebrating European artistic masters
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Art of Leonardo
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WAHMIA ALBARID
Pierre Bonnard
French Impressionist
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Art of Titian
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WAHMIA ALBARID
Buckeye Lawn Mower
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
tribute to American advertising
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
The Globe Lawn Mower
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




WAHMIA ALBARID
Excelsior Side Wheel Mower
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



THE ZABABBIAN EMIRATES:
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Friday, March 15, 2019

WARAQ ALJUDRAN CINDERELLA STAMPS AND COVERS/ Postal Collage Art by Eric Whollem/ WALLPAPER STAMPS/ Paraphilately


WARAQ ALJUDRAN
cover received by Cymru Steamlines Carrier Service
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
ruins of Medini's
original wallpaper factory
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

SPECULATIONS ON THE ANCIENT HOMELAND OF THE WELSH CELTS

Cymru 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.

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 Eistedfodd music of the Welsh.

The Crimeans today call themselves the Kirim, a term not dissimilar to Cymry. 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.


BARDIC MUSIC OF THE CAUCASUS



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
paquebot delivery
with postage due
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Sailor Castaways
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
paquebot delivery reverse of cover
with postage due
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRANI PAQUEBOT
address cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Agrarian cover
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WARAQ ALJUDRAN
camel herder
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Steamship Express cover to Mettagundy
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WARAQ ALJUDRAN
The Eagle of Medini
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Mettagundy postal franking on reverse of cover
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Steed of Medinia
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Wallpaper Company
letter to the Postal Printing Services
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist
MEDINI'S WALLPAPER FACTORY

Stamp collectors often refer to the proliferation of cinderella stamps from the Trucial States area of the Arabian Peninsula as 'wallpaper stamps.'

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 Outer World are regarded with little acceptance.

Waraq Aljudran, in fact, literally translates from the Arabic as 'wall paper!" LOL



WARAQ ALJUDRAN
Sheik Ali Qiwani Medini
with Medini portrait cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

DUUN AL SAANDI CINDERELLA STAMPS & COVERS/ Fantasy Philately by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS



DUUN AL SAANDI
Archaic Ships
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist 

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
copyright by the artist

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
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


DUUN AL SAANDI
Phoenician ship
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



DUUN AL SAANDI
McGillicuddy's Glass Works
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

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
copyright by the artist


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
copyright by the artist

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.

DUUN AL SAANDI
Zebu & Tapir
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


DUUN AL SAANDI
Phoenician ships
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



DUUN AL SAANDI
Stamp Packet
2019
Eric Whollem
cyberart
copyright by the artist


SHEIK DARBOOR McGILLICUDDY
ruler of Duun al Saandi
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


DUUN AL SAANDI
Zababba Camel Express Mail
2019
Eric Whollem
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