Wednesday, May 22, 2019

NEFERNEFERLAND FANTASY STAMPS/ Covers and Cancellations by Eric Whollem/ EGYPTIAN CINDERELLA STAMPS




NEFERNEFERLAND
Desert Maiden
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




NEFERNEFERLAND
Postal Tax Cover
with map stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Map Stamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




NEFERNEFERLAND
Jack's Grill and Oasis
local post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



JACK'S GRILL AND OASIS

Towards the early years of the 19th century a certain Captain Jack became known as a great explorer of the mysteries of Africa. 

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.

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.

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 Eight Mysteries of Neferneferland.



NEFERNERFERLAND
Jack's Oasis
local post cancel
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



JACK'S GRILL & OASIS
advertising cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
John Lee Hooker
Music Festival cover
cancelled in Nashville and Memphis
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


JOHN LEE HOOKER MUSIC FESTIVAL

If 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.

When asked about this,  Ms.Tinker Belle, the stage manager of the John Lee Hooker Festival, referred us to the works of Edgar Cayce for elucidation of this point. Others may cite obscure texts found in versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a text popularized in the 20th century by Carl Jung and Jerry Garcia.

Nefer, of course, means 'beautiful' in the ancient Egyptian language. 




NEFERNEFERLAND
Obelisk cover
Registered in Geezer
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



PHILATELAE
Neferneferland cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
General El Beebi cover
with scarab cancellation
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Al Qook Duck Farm letter
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




JACK'S LOCAL POST
Nile Maiden
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Percival Ramses Al Qook
Postmaster of Goshen
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
Waiting for Osiris
2016
with cancellations from 2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



NEFERNEFERLAND
The Chamber of Initiation
Sarcophagus of Abydos
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


MORE ABOUT NEFERNEFERLAND

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

AL TAZWIR EMIRATE FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS/ Covers and Cancellations by Eric Whollem/ CINDERELLA STAMPS/ Paraphilately



AL TAZWIR
Beel-Zala Ferry
Lake Wahmia Ferryboat Service
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

AL TAZWIR

Al 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.'

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




AL TAZWIR
The emir
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




AL TAZWIR
Letter to Moruvgach
with postal tax from Lattiomin
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


AL TAZWIR
English bluebells
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





AL TAZWIR
Al Jinn Rare Books
received in Sarmoli, Moruvgach
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
Vintage British paperback book covers
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist




AL TAZWIR
Lake Wahmia Ferryboat & Railway Parcel Service
Al Tazwir Railway Letter Rate
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
American bulldog
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



AL TAZWIR
Rossetti Paintings
British art series
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

BRITISH ART ON THE STAMPS OF AL TAZWIR

The art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti appears on the above cover. Rossetti was the founder of the Preraphaelite art movement from Britain.

The desert peoples of the Zababbian region much appreciate the exotic fine arts of the northern countries.



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