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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Saturday, March 2, 2019

SCARABIAN FANTASY STAMPS/ Barbaru Coast Covers by Eric Whollem/ PARAPHILATELY/ Coffee Packing Label Cinderellas


SCARABIA
Paquebot cover to Moruvgach
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
Sheik Zababba McBink
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
paquebot
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SHEIK ZABABBA McBINK

Sheik Zababba McBink is one of the pseudonyms of Scarabeus Binkel, a notorious rogue philatelist from Binkel County. After the collapse of his Binklish Empire along the Barbaru Coast, he went incognito, disguising himself as one of the indigenous inhabitants of the coast of the Sea of Glass.

Scarabia had already been designated as one of Binkel's colonies; but he decided to forgo obvious rulership of the area, posing as one of the local Sheiks.

The cover above was sent to Moruvgach, a nation to the south in West Merreminde.




SCARABIA
Jeemtun Dispatch local
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE JEEMTUN DISPATCH

Jim, one of Scarabeus Binkel's shipmates settled some time ago in  Scarabia, establishing a pub along the coast. Finding that the natives of the area disapproved of spiritous liquors, he turned to coffee merchant, creating a line of coffee shops through the region.

The boat on the above stamp was one of his coffee boats, seen frequently along the Sea of Glass.'

Jim, or Jeem as he came to be called, operated as postmaster in the port of Jeemtun. He utilized a line of stamps of his own creation for his local postal service.


JEEMTUN DISPATCH
local post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
cover using Koffee shop packing label
as cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist

JEEMTUN DISPATCH
local post
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist





SCARABIA
The Eruption of Mt. Karanion
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
Jeemtun Dispatch local
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SHEIK ZABABBA McBINK'S PERSONAL PHILATELIC MARKINGS

Zababba, as Postmaster General of the Zababba Emirates, collected his own works, the covers that you see posted here. He did not care much for performing actual postal functions, but preferred to merely collect the mails that sometimes gathered in the bins in his coffee houses and port authorities.

He hoped one day to include them in a great postal history of the Barbaru Coast that long was one of his pet projects.

The cover above has a curious red handstamp prepared by Zababba, which reads 'SHEIK ZABBABA McBINK'S Cover Collection/ Do Not Spindle, Fold or Eviscerate by Penalty of ....(obscure)'.




SCARABIA
Jeemtun Dispatch local
cover using Koffee shop packing label
as cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
ploughman
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
Cover with stamps with map showing the location
of the Zababbian Emirates
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


THE MAP OF THE ZABABBIAN EMIRATES

The map on the stamps above shows the location of Moruvgach as well as the small countries which comprise the Zababbian Emirates. These include Dunn al Sandi (Land of Dunes),Waraq Aljudren (Wallpaper), Al Tazwir (Forgery), and Wahmia (Bogus). It was always Zababba's hope to see these stamps included in every child's assortment of stamp approvals in the mail. But alas his dream was never consummated, as he soon lost interest, developing a series of stamps for his Empire of the West, where he converted the local Giant population to the delights of paraphilately and lead them on an expedition to Wook Wook Island to conquer the Sasquatch.

The above letter is an example of business mail, sent from the offices of the Daryuun Surveyors in Khana Oasis to the Camel Drivers' Payroll Office.




McBINK COLLECTION
Philatelic handstamp
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
cover cancelled in the Khana Oasis Post Office
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist



SCARABIA
paquebot
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
cover using Koffee shop packing label
as cachet
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
ploughman
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
Dweller in the Dunes
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


SCARABIA
Sheik Zababba McBink
2019
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist


HISTORY OF THE BARBARU COAST:
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