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Topic: KEMP LAND stamps.
Posted By: Panterra
Subject: KEMP LAND stamps.
Date Posted: 03 April 2017 at 17:53
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Kemp Land 2008 Great Poets of the planet set on First Day Cover.

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Kemp Land 2003 Magic Mushrooms set.

Originally posted by Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue, by Simon Quaritch Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue, by Simon Quaritch wrote:

On the frigid continent of Antarctica lies an astonishing land: thousands of people living and working in what many claim is the world's most daring social experiment.  This is the People's Democratic Republic of Kemp Land, which proclaimed independence from Australia on 2nd October 1975. Kemp Land is a benvolent but low-tech dictatorship, led by the Democratic People's Party, and the Great Leader, Eric Gardo.  The capital is Bonjo Town. Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar.



Kemp Land 2007 Old Steam Trains of Antarctica set.

Kemp Land, once a part of the Australian Antarctic Territory before achieving independence, apparently still runs nice steam trains, and they showed some views of these on this attractive 2007 set. It is titled "Old steam trains of Antarctica".

My favorite is the 90c stamp, where a small shunting engine has a few nearby penguins included in the photo.  Wonder if they moved closer for the warm steam gusts?

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Kemp Land 2006 Roses set.

This set is my favorite and is still used in Kemp Land as the definitive issue.  Apparently, roses and other plants are grown in giant glass domes on the chilly plains of Antarctica.

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Sadly the web-site shown on the stamps is now defunct.

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Kemp Land 2001 90th anniversary of Amundsen reaching the South Pole set.

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Kemp Land 2005 Lighthouses of Antarctica set on FDC.

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Kemp Land 2004 Endangered Spiders of Antarctica set.

Kemp Land was the brainchild of an Australian philatelist and artist, Matthew Campbell. 
His early designs were cartoon-drawn by him,  then sent to his Norwegian friend,
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In 1988, Matthew asked http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - to begin printing his stamps.  By this time, Bruce was running several letterpress machines and had a nice perforator, hotfoil machine, and lots of fonts of type, and Matthew hoped his issues could be upgraded beyond the imperf xeroxing.  So typography became the way forward for Kemp Land.  Matthew continued to do the cartoon drawings for the stamps, while Bruce would re-do the text in Times Roman font, and then make photo-polymer printing plates to print the stamps with.  These were usually done at the same time as those issues of his own country, http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - - - - - (so that the colour schemes used for Kemp Land stamps are identical with the http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - - - - - - Occussi-Ambeno issue of similar date.)  Bruce also used his presses to print attractive first day covers, tourism posters, cards, and various self-adhesive stickers for Kemp Land.

This continued up to 1999, when Bruce enrolled in a multimedia digital training course, and learned how to use Photoshop, vector graphics, and  make websites.  So from 2000 on, nearly all Kemp Land stamps have been full-colour using photographs, and the cartoons have ceased.  However, Matthew still chooses the issues, as well as the illustrations to show on them.

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Kemp Land 1998 Great Philosophers of the planet set.

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Kemp Land 2007 War Tax set.

In 2015, as a result of anti-homosexual repression by the Gardo regime, a gay uprising quickly took over and Gardo was deposed.  The new leader, Aubrey McKinnon, proclaimed the country the Gay Republic of Kemp Land.

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Kemp Land 2016 Gay Revolution overprints set.

This set aroused derision on the Australian forum http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=69969&p=4632256&hilit=Kemp+Land#p4632256" rel="nofollow - However, much of that could be due to Australian resentment of the fact that part of the former Australian Antarctic Territory had seceded from the Great Aussie Empire.



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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 04 April 2017 at 04:18
Let's look at more of Kemp Land's 40 years of stamp-issuing.

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Kemp Land 2009 Great Rock Bands of the planet.

This set was prompted because Matthew was keen to see an American punk band " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Boys#Bators.27_subsequent_career" rel="nofollow - (1c stamp) shown on stamps.  Bruce included another stamp showing a New Zealand band his friends played in ("Last Orders", 60c stamp) and the $3 shows USA band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 2015 45th anniversary of Mevu's independence.

This set shows Matthew's old friend Geir Sor-Reime (who originally collaborated in printing Kemp Land's stamps) on two of the stamps.  The Norwegian explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen" rel="nofollow - http://s1168.photobucket.com/user/inzander33/media/KL-15-Mevu-FDC-stpbds-sized_zpsbnovgkm8.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">


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is a Fifth World country located on the Riiser-Larsen Peninsula in Antarctica, and was founded by Geir Sor-Reime, an archaeologist from Norway.  In 1971, as a busy student, he decided it was "too time-consuming" to continue, so handed it over to his old friend Bruce Henderson, who ran http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno , the only other land to recognise http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow - - - - - - - - Mevu up till then. Bruce did a few issues before Geir was inveigled into taking control again in 1973.  For more on Mevu and photos of its stamps and covers, see the http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 2017 75th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference.

This set shows the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling_regime" rel="nofollow - - Geir Sor-Reime (who originally collaborated in printing Kemp Land's stamps) who likes Norwegian history on stamps. The other values show the organiser of the conference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" rel="nofollow - - Stampboards site, with some condemning it as anti-semitic.  Here are a few of the remarks:

Originally posted by Princestamps Princestamps wrote:

I agree with Ewan, but the set shown is very tasteless, celebrating an event that lead to the gassing and attempted destruction of the Jews?

I mean really?

Gay Republic my foot, if he is trying to say this event was evil, this set proves the opposite - celebrating the Nazis and no comments on the suffering of the Jews.

One reason I do not support Panterra more is his anti semitic Holocaust denying attitudes. Nothing will ever excuse or explain the insanity that ruled Germany in the 1933 - 1945 era. It is sadly about to be repeated now with another hyper racist and bigotted madman in control.


Originally posted by gavin-h gavin-h wrote:

Yes, I completely agree - when I looked at these bogus labels, I couldn't for the life of me figure out whether they were "for" or "against" the Wannsee Conference.    Shocked


Originally posted by Global Administrator Global Administrator wrote:

They are a very tacky opportunistic way to make 100 or so bucks I say.

Hours of artwork and production for such a small return.  Cry

Flipping burgers at Maccas, even in NZ, must pay better?


Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:

No-one seems to see the Big Picture here.

Hitler (a Jew himself!) cleverly pretended to be "anti-Jewish" in order to provoke Jews to leave comfortable modern Europe, and move away to the dusty, sandy desert land of Palestine, in order to create the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" rel="nofollow - http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/stamps/europe-ex-great-britain/auction-1269995607.htm" rel="nofollow -
Originally posted by Trademe website Trademe website wrote:

"The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" by Edwin Black.

First published to international acclaim in 1984, "The Transfer Agreement" stunned readers worldwide with its revelations of a pact between Zionist leaders & Hitler's Third Reich. Concluded in 1933, this controversial pact transferred 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine on the condition that Zionist organizations call a halt to their economic boycott of Nazi Germany -- a potent tactic that was threatening to topple Hitler's government, then only in its first year in power. The debate over this controversial deal virtually tore apart the Jewish world in the pre-World War II era, & it remains unresolved today. Whereas the transfer agreement indeed ultimately saved lives, rescued assets, & helped lay the foundation for what would become the Jewish state in 1948, it also arguably allowed the Nazi regime to survive its first year &, over the next twelve, to plumb the depths of ethnic intolerance and implement massive genocide. With the world today confronting such morally complex issues as the compensation for slave labor during the Holocaust & the refusal of Swiss banks to return Jewish assets to their rightful heirs, the transfer agreement & the boycott that preceded it stand out as early examples of Jewish initiatives against Nazi terror. However ambiguous the choices made by the Jewish leaders in the turbulent prewar 1930s, they stand in a new and different light today. "The Transfer Agreement" is a remarkable & revelatory book that has now found its time.


In this context, the http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/stamps/other/mint/auction-1272779473.htm" rel="nofollow - Wannsee Conference was a milestone, and an important event in the history of Judaica and Europe generally.


Matthew does not use the internet, so only saw these reviews of his new issue later.  He was delighted by the controversy, especially by one lad suggesting they were "tasteless".

Kemp Land's previous big claim to fame was winning the Bad Taste Award from the UK's "Stamp Magazine" (December 1999, page 71) over it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hutchence" rel="nofollow - - Mark Chapman stamps.

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Let's look at some of the letterpress issues of the nineties:

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Kemp Land 1993 ICIS Year of Fruit.

A definitive set featuring quotations from the Great Leader, Eric Gardo, were designed by Matthew with text typeset by my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter#Selectric_Composer" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism" rel="nofollow - http://www.angelfire.com/art/icis/" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1995 "Our Armed Forces".

This set used cartoons by Matthew with text typeset by my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter#Selectric_Composer" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, souvenir sheet.

This set again used cartoons by Matthew with text typeset by computer.  Letterpress printed with Adana 8x5 press on white gloss art paper, perf 12.


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Kemp Land 1997 Mark Chapman set.

To create this set, Matthew sent Bruce a magazine photo of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1999 Glacier-hiking, Geir the winner.

This stamp again uses a cartoon by Matthew with text typeset by computer.  The cartoon shows his friend Geir hiking over a glacier.  The "Geir the winner" overprint is a homage to the UK 1966 World Cup "England Winners" overprint.  Letterpress printed with Adana 8x5 press on white gloss art paper, perf 12. I had to make a separate plate for the overprint, since the "O" with a slash through it in Geir's surname is not a character found in English metal type fonts. Unoverprinted stamps were issued on 8th May 1999, with the overprint appearing on Prizegiving Day, 23rd May 1999.

Let's now look at some of Kemp Land's early photocopied stamps:

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Kemp Land 1985 Music Year.

This stamp used a cartoon by Geir.  He did similar designs for his other lands, which were issued imperf. Photocopied in Norway on toned paper, and later perforated 12 by Bruce in New Zealand. Imperf stamps were issued also. Issue date was 19th August 1985.

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Kemp Land 1985 First anniversary of the International Council of Independent States.

This stamp again used a cartoon by Geir.  He did similar designs for his other lands, which were issued imperf. Photocopied in Norway on toned paper, and later perforated 12 by Bruce in New Zealand. Imperf stamps were issued also. Issue date was 1st June 1985.

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Kemp Land 1990 Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Gardo.

This stamp used a cartoon by Matthew.  He sent the artwork to Geir, who photocopied them in Norway on red paper, and returned them to Matthew in Australia. Matthew later forwarded them to Bruce who perforated them and they were issued on 17th December 1990. It is uncertain what year they were actually designed and photocopied, which may have been several years previous.


Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 05 April 2017 at 04:57
Keep these coming Bruce.

Always good to see more stamps and the stories behind them. Will all the work you been involved with be appearing here. If so keep it steady, and not all at once. Give us a chance to savour them, and make it last longer.



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Posted By: Admin
Date Posted: 05 April 2017 at 05:43
Originally posted by Steve Steve wrote:

Keep these coming Bruce.

 If so keep it steady, and not all at once. Give us a chance to savour them, and make it last longer.


I second that  ;-)


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Posted By: Londonbus1
Date Posted: 07 April 2017 at 00:16
I like the cartoon or hand-drawn issues but the photo types are awful, especially with the website address which detracts immensely.
I have to say though that I found the Princess Lumpilla stamp enormously funny and still get a kick out of it whenever I come across it.
I think a return to the cartoon types would not go amiss !


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 07 April 2017 at 01:13
Matthew would agree that the cartoon styles are best, but from my point of view as the printer, they involve much extra time: platemaking (expensive) then hand-printing (very time-consuming.)  In contrast, I can design and print a colour photo set in one hour and at negligible cost.  And since most of the "conventional states" do similar colour photo designs these days, as a "modern" country, Kemp Land likes to keep up!

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Kemp Land 1993 Academy of Arts & Sciences.

I've nearly finished Part 3 of the saga of Kemp Land stamps, so expect to see more details here soon!


Posted By: Bas S Warwick
Date Posted: 07 April 2017 at 11:26
To the President, Tagangarika Island






Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 08 April 2017 at 04:53
Let’s look at some more of Kemp Land’s amusing and controversial stamps.

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Kemp Land 2004 Guitars set.


This set was designed by Graham Judd, a musician and guitarist himself.  It is widely regarded as one of Kemp Land’s better stamp issues.

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Kemp Land 2004 Guitars set, on first day cover.

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Kemp Land 2002 George Harrison (Beatles) farewell.


Matthew specified a “Goodbye George” stamp, but left the design up to Bruce.  Yet another of Kemp Land’s more popular issues, with many sold on Ebay and Trademe, unlike most of Kemp Land’s “quirkier” issues, which seldom sell more than half a dozen.

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Kemp Land 2003 Princess Camilla.

This stamp was considered very scandalous at the time, as Camilla was “that woman everyone knew the Prince was involved with”, but she was never mentioned in the conventional media (and only occasionally by the scandal rags.) An extra large print run was made, so that they could be used on the Kemp Land newsletters for many months.

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Kemp Land 2016 handwritten newsletter, number 2624.

The Ministry of Propaganda is the main user of Kemp Land stamps.  An irregular single-page newsletter, calligraphed by Matthew Campbell, is posted to a worldwide mailing list.  (A cover containing one of these newsletters was shown earlier in this thread.) If you would like to join the mailing list and receive these paeans of wisdom, a request letter to the Kemp Land Information Service, 115-c Essex Street, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia, will get you enlisted. (Please include some mint and used stamps to sweeten the deal, and use pretty commemoratives on your envelope: after all, they are all philatelists in Kemp Land!)  The same agency is also able to supply mint Kemp Land stamps and FDCs, and would be happy to barter for some of yours.

The hand-calligraphed newsletter is a homage to a medieval French philosopher who regularly wrote missives to all the crowned heads of Europe.

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Kemp Land 2002 Ginger Cat.

The Cats were a series of four (as is usual for most KL sets), and the top value, $3, shows Bruce's male cat Fanta, perched on his mailbox.

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Kemp Land 2005 60th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich.

The Third Reich series of four achieved notoriety for showing Mr Hitler on the postcard-rate stamp, and was prompted because Matthew and some of his friends collected Germany and sought a tie-in.  Issued on 8th May 2005.

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Kemp Land 2005 Third Reich set on first day cover.

I got some funny looks from the platemaker when getting the plates made to print the Nazi logo on the envelope!

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Kemp Land 2003 1st anniversary of the assassination of General Matthew Campbell.

Matthew sent his photograph to be used for this stamp, wearing his Kemp Land Army uniform.  This has a red satin ribbon emblazoned on the tunic, with the words KEMP LAND ARMY in black: printed on my Adana a year or so previously.

I suggested to Matthew that he should always keep a few of this stamp in his wallet, just in case he happens to get run over by a bus or train.  The gendarmes will then be most perplexed to find stamps celebrating the first anniversary of his death in his pocket!  However, as I write, he remains in good health.


Now let’s look at some more of the early typography issues, before the year 2000:

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Kemp Land 1996 Galaxy Master Battenberg visits Antarctic UFO Bases. SQ 101 – 103.

This set of three was printed on white gloss art paper with Adana 8x5 press.  The lettering was done with the trusty IBM Composer.  The 45c is quite a vivid fluorescent pink colour, which looks a lot brighter than shown here. Issue date was 23rd June 1996.


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Kemp Land 1992 ICIS Year of the Atmosphere. SQ 86.

This stamp was made by overprinting a Samoan 1952 ½d stamp. Matthew purchased a full sheet of this from a local dealer at a cheap price, and sent them to Bruce with instructions on how the overprint should be done.  A plate was made for the semi-circular text, while metal type sufficed for the remaining text. Issue date was 10th July 1992.


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Kemp Land 1992-96 Thoughts of Chairman Eric. SQ 79 – 85.

This set is a homage to China’s “Thoughts of Chairman Mao” set, and features pithy and often irreverent remarks from Kemp Land’s Great Leader.  The set was intended to be the definitive issue.  Each stamp was printed as each design was received over the period from 1992 to 1996.  The 45c has an attached tab with a knife and fork, which means Not to be delivered at dinnertime.  The tab could be detached if the letter was particularly urgent. (Dinnertime is considered a sacred hour in Kemp Land, and it is extremely rude to interrupt diners, except in an emergency.)

The 5c and 15c were both printed from the same plate: after all the 15c had been printed, the “1” was excised, and then the 5c value was printed. Platemaking is expensive, so we need to trim costs where ever possible. All typesetting done with the IBM Composer, and printed with both Heidelberg Platen and Adana presses. The $3 stamp is in vivid fluorescent pink, which looks a lot brighter in reality than the scan here. There is also a green 90c stamp, not shown here (but an overprinted version of it was illustrated earlier.)


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Kemp Land 1995 20th anniversary of the death of Hank Snow (patriot). SQ 94 – 97.

This set honours Hank Snow, a member of the Kemp Land Army who gave his life in the fight for freedom from the frumious Australians. Designed by Matthew, and printed on gloss white paper with Adana 8x5 press. Issue date was 4th November 1995.

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Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue 1997, by Simon Quaritch.

This hard-cover catalogue was published by Lancaster Publishing in 1997, and lists all the stamps of Kemp Land up to the Mark Chapman issue. It is now out of print, but a new update is in preparation.  Stamps of Kemp Land are referred to by theirSQnumbers, a homage to the “SG” numbers of the First World.

The title on the front cover and spine are in shiny metallic gold, done by hot-foil.  It is hard to photograph this without getting a mirror-type reflection, but we seem to have done it here. Wink


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Posted By: Bas S Warwick
Date Posted: 08 April 2017 at 10:48
Thanks for all the info

As a guitarist and owner or 2 Fenders (and 2 Warwick) basses, the Fender issue is a very interesting and appealing set.






Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 10 April 2017 at 06:20
Quite a varied selection of stamp subjects. Does Kemp Land have an official issuing policy?

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 10 April 2017 at 16:42
An "official issuing policy"?  That's one you would have to ask Matthew about.  But I think he just does stamps on a whim.

In the issue of the KL newsletter "Mould Cloud" (shown earlier), you can see his announcement of the planned issues for this year.  So far, only the Wannsee set has appeared, and I am still reeling with the flak from that!  I doubt there will be the same stormblasts with the fungi set. Wink


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 12 April 2017 at 15:48
Let’s look at some more of Kemp Land’s amusing and often controversial stamps.

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Kemp Land 2004 Modern Art set.

This set features nude paintings by the Auckland artist John Winton Burke, who Bruce met and recommended the paintings set to Matthew.  As Matthew is a connoisseur of art, he was delighted with the issue, and a supply of each stamp was presented to the artist to hand out like business cards to his fans.

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Kemp Land 2009 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano.

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (1655 – 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano.  This seemed an important event to celebrate with a stamp issue. I remain amazed that few other lands bothered to celebrate such a momentous anniversary!

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Kemp Land 2002 Antarctic Feline Club.


This was the usual set of four values (the $3 was shown earlier in this thread) and is notable for being completely sold out in the month of issue!  I offered them on both Ebay and Trademe at the time of issue, and seriously underestimated the demand. My cats who modelled for the stamps were rewarded with cans of exotic food as their royalty.

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Kemp Land 2007 700th anniversary of the betrayal of the Knights Templar.

This stamp was an omnibus by the KDPN, and when agreeing to participate in the omnibus, Matthew requested his unique version of the text at the foot.  

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Kemp Land 2007 Knights Templar sheet.

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Kemp Land 2010 Revolutionary Heroes set.

Matthew (a keen collector of Germany) was anxious to have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg" rel="nofollow - Von Stauffenberg , architect of the plot to overthrow Hitler in 1944, featured on a stamp, which prompted this set.  The ornate borders on this set were a new development, and made this issue an attractive set.


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Kemp Land 2000 Year of the Dragon.


The Year of the Dragon stamp shows a photo of one of the Great Philatelists of the World, Matthew, holding a Yemen cover from his collection.  The 30c stamp at the left is the “normal” version, with the small “dragon” logo to the left of Matthew’s head facing left.  A very small number of stamps had the error with the dragon logo facing right (right stamp.)

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Kemp Land 2000 Antarctic dogs – good friends.


The year 2000 saw a lot of full-colour stamps for Kemp Land as I was doing the multimedia training course that year so printed the stamps off by day at school, then perfed them when I got home that night.  I submitted the stamps as work done for the course, which surprised my tutors!

Now let’s look at some more of the early typography issues, before the year 2000:

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Kemp Land 1997 20th anniversary of the All-Antarctic Federation of Philatelists. SQ 117 – 120.

This set of four was printed on white gloss art paper with Adana 8x5 press, while the 45c was a mass edition done on thick matt paper with Heidelberg platen press.  Matthew sourced the illustration.  The lettering was done by computer.  The 75c is a metallic silver colour, which looks a lot shinier than shown here. Issue date was 22nd October 1997.

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Kemp Land 1995 Framnes Mountains National Park.  SQ 91 – 92.

This set was from cartoons by Matthew.  The stamps were printed on white paper with invisible gum, with Adana press. Issue date was 13th August 1995.

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Kemp Land 1998 Michael Hutchence (musician) commemoration. SQ 121.

This issue helped Kemp Land to win the “Bad Taste Award” from “Stamp Magazine” in the UK, illustrated earlier.  The design was a magazine photo, which Matthew had modified by adding the necklace and protruding tongue.  Printed on white gloss art paper with Adana press. Issue date was 14th January 1998.

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Kemp Land 1990 150th anniversary of the world’s first postage stamp (the “Penny Black”). SQ 67.

What philatelist could ignore the Penny Black anniversary?  The stamp was printed on white paper with shiny gum with Adana 8x5 press. Issue date was 6th May 1990.

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Kemp Land 1988 20th anniversary of Occussi-Ambeno’s independence. SQ 62.

This was the first stamp I printed for Kemp Land, and so got the country name slightly incorrect, missing out the “Democratic”.  It was one of a set of two in identical design, with the design by Geir Sor-Reime. Printed by Heidelberg platen press.

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Kemp Land 1998 Matthew’s Wedding. SQ 122.

As I had no photo of the happy couple to work with, I did a special printing of the Framnes Mountains National Park (SQ 91) on white gloss paper and in a different colour, then did the overprint with gold hotfoil in Old English text.  The happy couple were delighted. Issue date was 21st February 1998.

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Kemp Land 1998 Princess Diana (humanitarian) commemoration. SQ 130.

Matthew submitted the cartoon of the princess, which I added text to with computer, then printed in gold ink on glossy white art paper. Issue date was 19th July 1998.

Finally, let’s look at another of the early photocopied issues, before I began printing Kemp Land issues:


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Kemp Land 1990 10th anniversary of the Security Police. SQ 72.

Matthew submitted the design to Geir in Norway, who photocopied it on red paper, then returned them all to Matthew in Australia.  He later sent them all to me for perfing and issue. The innocent-faced officer shown is possibly the same gentleman who reads all Kemp Land’s mail, then stamps it “Passed by censor.”  Clearly an important public service.  Issue date was 25th November 1990.

Kemp Land stamps continue to be issued.  If you would like any, or have any comments or suggestions for new issues, contact the Kemp Land Information Service, 115-c Essex Street, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 15 April 2017 at 21:29
The Kemp Land postal service covers the globe!

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 17 April 2017 at 12:01
and so it should

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 April 2017 at 04:44
I received a bulging envelope stuffed full of stamps and background information. Much is Kemp Land with other territories included. Single stamps, Covers and miniature sheets. Its going to take me best part of an evening to sort it all out. No pics because Bruce has posted many of these already.

Many thanks Bruce

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 28 April 2017 at 07:40
Here are scans of the covers, and very nicely done too.











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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 29 April 2017 at 03:02
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Kemp Land 2007 Knights Templars betrayed.

Hi folks, thought you might be interested to know that I have at long last done a new website for Matthew's small Antarctic country, the Gay Republic of Kemp Land.
 
See it here:  http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - http://geocities.ws/kempland
 
(As you can see by the "ws", the website lives in Samoa. Kemp Land does not yet have its own suffix, but they are working on it.)
 
And you will be happy to see that it does not have ANY Hitler or Wannsee Conference stamps or mentions, so far.  But this will probably change after Matthew looks at it and asks for additions.
 
Also, please let me know of any buttons or links that "don't work".  Being a new site, it probably has an error or two that I should fix.  Also, tell me if you see any spelling mistakes.
 
cheers, Bruce.
 
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Posted By: Bas S Warwick
Date Posted: 17 May 2017 at 21:23
3 Kemp land covers addressed to GPO Takangarika Island





Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 17 May 2017 at 23:14
Nice Bas

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Posted By: Bas S Warwick
Date Posted: 01 June 2017 at 23:01
For your delight and delectation here is another Kemp Land cover from 2003  addressed to the GPO Tikau, Takangarika Island






Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 24 July 2017 at 04:46

Kemp Land 2008 Great Poets of the planet set on First Day Cover.


Kemp Land 2003 Magic Mushrooms set.

Originally posted by Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue, by Simon Quaritch Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue, by Simon Quaritch wrote:

On the frigid continent of Antarctica lies an astonishing land: thousands of people living and working in what many claim is the world's most daring social experiment.  This is the People's Democratic Republic of Kemp Land, which proclaimed independence from Australia on 2nd October 1975. Kemp Land is a benvolent but low-tech dictatorship, led by the Democratic People's Party, and the Great Leader, Eric Gardo.  The capital is Bonjo Town. Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar.



Kemp Land 2007 Old Steam Trains of Antarctica set.

Kemp Land, once a part of the Australian Antarctic Territory before achieving independence, apparently still runs nice steam trains, and they showed some views of these on this attractive 2007 set. It is titled "Old steam trains of Antarctica".

My favorite is the 90c stamp, where a small shunting engine has a few nearby penguins included in the photo.  Wonder if they moved closer for the warm steam gusts?


Kemp Land 2006 Roses set.

This set is my favorite and is still used in Kemp Land as the definitive issue.  Apparently, roses and other plants are grown in giant glass domes on the chilly plains of Antarctica.



Sadly the web-site shown on the stamps is now defunct.


Kemp Land 2001 90th anniversary of Amundsen reaching the South Pole set.


Kemp Land 2005 Lighthouses of Antarctica set on FDC.


Kemp Land 2004 Endangered Spiders of Antarctica set.

Kemp Land was the brainchild of an Australian philatelist and artist, Matthew Campbell. 
His early designs were cartoon-drawn by him,  then sent to his Norwegian friend,
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In 1988, Matthew asked http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - to begin printing his stamps.  By this time, Bruce was running several letterpress machines and had a nice perforator, hotfoil machine, and lots of fonts of type, and Matthew hoped his issues could be upgraded beyond the imperf xeroxing.  So typography became the way forward for Kemp Land.  Matthew continued to do the cartoon drawings for the stamps, while Bruce would re-do the text in Times Roman font, and then make photo-polymer printing plates to print the stamps with.  These were usually done at the same time as those issues of his own country, http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - - - (so that the colour schemes used for Kemp Land stamps are identical with the http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - - - - Occussi-Ambeno issue of similar date.)  Bruce also used his presses to print attractive first day covers, tourism posters, cards, and various self-adhesive stickers for http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land .

This continued up to 1999, when Bruce enrolled in a multimedia digital training course, and learned how to use Photoshop, vector graphics, and  make http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - websites .  So from 2000 on, nearly all Kemp Land stamps have been full-colour using photographs, and the cartoons have ceased.  However, Matthew still chooses the issues, as well as the illustrations to show on them.


Kemp Land 1998 Great Philosophers of the planet set.


Kemp Land 2007 War Tax set.

In 2015, as a result of anti-homosexual repression by the Gardo regime, a http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - gay uprising quickly took over and Gardo was deposed.  The new leader, Aubrey McKinnon, proclaimed the country the Gay Republic of Kemp Land.

Matthew asked http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - to overprint some older stamps.  So four earlier issues were overprinted, with the amazing http://www.bpsnet.org.uk/letterpress.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.bpsnet.org.uk/letterpress.html" rel="nofollow - - - - - .


Kemp Land 2016 Gay Revolution overprints set.

This set aroused derision on the Australian forum http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=69969&p=4632256&hilit=Kemp+Land#p4632256" rel="nofollow - However, much of that could be due to Australian resentment of the fact that part of the former Australian Antarctic Territory had seceded from the Great Aussie Empire.



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 24 July 2017 at 05:00
Let's look at more of Kemp Land's 40 years of stamp-issuing.


Kemp Land 2009 Great Rock Bands of the planet.

This set was prompted because Matthew was keen to see an American punk band " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Boys#Bators.27_subsequent_career" rel="nofollow - - " (1c stamp) shown on stamps.  Bruce included another stamp showing a New Zealand band his friends played in ("Last Orders", 60c stamp) and the $3 shows USA band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 2015 45th anniversary of Mevu's independence.

This set shows Matthew's old friend Geir Sor-Reime (who originally collaborated in printing Kemp Land's stamps) on two of the stamps.  The Norwegian explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen" rel="nofollow -


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is a Fifth World country located on the Riiser-Larsen Peninsula in Antarctica, and was founded by Geir Sor-Reime, an archaeologist from Norway.  In 1971, as a busy student, he decided it was "too time-consuming" to continue, so handed it over to his old friend Bruce Henderson, who ran http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno , the only other land to recognise http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow - - - - - - - - Mevu up till then. Bruce did a few issues before Geir was inveigled into taking control again in 1973.  For more on Mevu and photos of its stamps and covers, see the http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/about.htm" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 2017 75th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference.

This set shows the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling_regime" rel="nofollow - - Geir Sor-Reime (who originally collaborated in printing Kemp Land's stamps) who likes Norwegian history on stamps. The other values show the organiser of the conference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" rel="nofollow - - Stampboards site, with some condemning it as anti-semitic.  Here are a few of the remarks:

Originally posted by Princestamps Princestamps wrote:

I agree with Ewan, but the set shown is very tasteless, celebrating an event that led to the gassing and attempted destruction of the Jews?

I mean really?

Gay Republic my foot, if he is trying to say this event was evil, this set proves the opposite - celebrating the Nazis and no comments on the suffering of the Jews.

One reason I do not support Panterra more is his anti semitic Holocaust denying attitudes. Nothing will ever excuse or explain the insanity that ruled Germany in the 1933 - 1945 era. It is sadly about to be repeated now with another hyper racist and bigotted madman in control.


Originally posted by gavin-h gavin-h wrote:

Yes, I completely agree - when I looked at these bogus labels, I couldn't for the life of me figure out whether they were "for" or "against" the Wannsee Conference.    Shocked


Originally posted by Global Administrator Global Administrator wrote:

They are a very tacky opportunistic way to make 100 or so bucks I say.

Hours of artwork and production for such a small return.  Cry

Flipping burgers at Maccas, even in NZ, must pay better?


Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:

No-one seems to see the Big Picture here.

Hitler (a Jew himself!) cleverly pretended to be "anti-Jewish" in order to provoke Jews to leave comfortable modern Europe, and move away to the dusty, sandy desert land of Palestine, in order to create the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" rel="nofollow - http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/stamps/europe-ex-great-britain/auction-1269995607.htm" rel="nofollow -
Originally posted by Trademe website Trademe website wrote:

"The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" by Edwin Black.

First published to international acclaim in 1984, "The Transfer Agreement" stunned readers worldwide with its revelations of a pact between Zionist leaders & Hitler's Third Reich. Concluded in 1933, this controversial pact transferred 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine on the condition that Zionist organizations call a halt to their economic boycott of Nazi Germany -- a potent tactic that was threatening to topple Hitler's government, then only in its first year in power. The debate over this controversial deal virtually tore apart the Jewish world in the pre-World War II era, & it remains unresolved today. Whereas the transfer agreement indeed ultimately saved lives, rescued assets, & helped lay the foundation for what would become the Jewish state in 1948, it also arguably allowed the Nazi regime to survive its first year &, over the next twelve, to plumb the depths of ethnic intolerance and implement massive genocide. With the world today confronting such morally complex issues as the compensation for slave labor during the Holocaust & the refusal of Swiss banks to return Jewish assets to their rightful heirs, the transfer agreement & the boycott that preceded it stand out as early examples of Jewish initiatives against Nazi terror. However ambiguous the choices made by the Jewish leaders in the turbulent prewar 1930s, they stand in a new and different light today. "The Transfer Agreement" is a remarkable & revelatory book that has now found its time.


In this context, the http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/stamps/other/mint/auction-1272779473.htm" rel="nofollow - Wannsee Conference was a milestone, and an important event in the history of Judaica and Europe generally.


Matthew does not use the internet, so only saw these reviews of his new issue later.  He was delighted by the controversy, especially by one lad suggesting they were "tasteless".

Kemp Land's previous big claim to fame was winning the Bad Taste Award from the UK's "Stamp Magazine" (December 1999, page 71) over it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hutchence" rel="nofollow - - Mark Chapman stamps.





Let's look at some of the letterpress issues of the nineties:


Kemp Land 1993 ICIS Year of Fruit.

A definitive set featuring quotations from the Great Leader, Eric Gardo, were designed by Matthew with text typeset by my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter#Selectric_Composer" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism" rel="nofollow - http://www.angelfire.com/art/icis/" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1995 "Our Armed Forces".

This set used cartoons by Matthew with text typeset by my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter#Selectric_Composer" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, souvenir sheet.

This set again used cartoons by Matthew with text typeset by computer.  Letterpress printed with Adana 8x5 press on white gloss art paper, perf 12.



Kemp Land 1997 Mark Chapman set.

To create this set, Matthew sent Bruce a magazine photo of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman" rel="nofollow -
Kemp Land 1999 Glacier-hiking, Geir the winner.

This stamp again uses a cartoon by Matthew with text typeset by computer.  The cartoon shows his friend Geir hiking over a glacier.  The "Geir the winner" overprint is a homage to the UK 1966 World Cup "England Winners" overprint.  Letterpress printed with Adana 8x5 press on white gloss art paper, perf 12. I had to make a separate plate for the overprint, since the "O" with a slash through it in Geir's surname is not a character found in English metal type fonts. Unoverprinted stamps were issued on 8th May 1999, with the overprint appearing on Prizegiving Day, 23rd May 1999.

Let's now look at some of Kemp Land's early photocopied stamps:


Kemp Land 1985 Music Year.

This stamp used a cartoon by Geir.  He did similar designs for his other lands, which were issued imperf. Photocopied in Norway on toned paper, and later perforated 12 by Bruce in New Zealand. Imperf stamps were issued also. Issue date was 19th August 1985.


Kemp Land 1985 First anniversary of the International Council of Independent States.

This stamp again used a cartoon by Geir.  He did similar designs for his other lands, which were issued imperf. Photocopied in Norway on toned paper, and later perforated 12 by Bruce in New Zealand. Imperf stamps were issued also. Issue date was 1st June 1985.


Kemp Land 1990 Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Gardo.

This stamp used a cartoon by Matthew.  He sent the artwork to Geir, who photocopied them in Norway on red paper, and returned them to Matthew in Australia. Matthew later forwarded them to Bruce who perforated them and they were issued on 17th December 1990. It is uncertain what year they were actually designed and photocopied, which may have been several years previous.



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 24 July 2017 at 05:08
Matthew would agree that the cartoon styles are best, but from my point of view as the printer, they involve much extra time: platemaking (expensive) then hand-printing (very time-consuming.)  In contrast, I can design and print a colour photo set in one hour and at negligible cost.  And since most of the "conventional states" do similar colour photo designs these days, as a "modern" country, Kemp Land likes to keep up!


Kemp Land 1993 Academy of Arts & Sciences.

I've nearly finished Part 3 of the saga of Kemp Land stamps, so expect to see more details here soon!



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 24 July 2017 at 05:26
Let’s look at some more of Kemp Land’s amusing and controversial stamps.


Kemp Land 2004 Guitars set.


This set was designed by Graham Judd, a musician and guitarist himself.  It is widely regarded as one of Kemp Land’s better stamp issues.


Kemp Land 2004 Guitars set, on first day cover.


Kemp Land 2002 George Harrison (Beatles) farewell.


Matthew specified a “Goodbye George” stamp, but left the design up to Bruce.  Yet another of Kemp Land’s more popular issues, with many sold on Ebay and Trademe, unlike most of Kemp Land’s “quirkier” issues, which seldom sell more than half a dozen.


Kemp Land 2003 Princess Camilla.

This stamp was considered very scandalous at the time, as Camilla was “that woman" everyone knew the Prince was involved with, but she was never mentioned in the conventional media (and only occasionally by the scandal rags.) An extra large print run was made, so that they could be used on the Kemp Land newsletters for many months.


Kemp Land 2016 handwritten newsletter, number 2624.

The Ministry of Propaganda is the main user of http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land stamps.  An irregular single-page newsletter, calligraphed by Matthew Campbell, is posted to a worldwide mailing list.  (A cover containing one of these newsletters was shown earlier in this thread.) If you would like to join the mailing list and receive these paeans of wisdom, a request letter to the Kemp Land Information Service, 115-c Essex Street, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia, will get you enlisted. (Please include some mint and used stamps to sweeten the deal, and use pretty commemoratives on your envelope: after all, they are all philatelists in Kemp Land!)  The same agency is also able to supply mint Kemp Land stamps and FDCs, and would be happy to barter for some of yours.

The hand-calligraphed newsletter is a homage to a medieval French philosopher who regularly wrote missives to all the crowned heads of Europe.

 
Kemp Land 2002 Ginger Cat.

The Cats were a series of four (as is usual for most KL sets), and the top value, $3, shows Bruce's male cat Fanta, perched on his mailbox.


Kemp Land 2005 60th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich.

The Third Reich series of four achieved notoriety for showing Mr Hitler on the postcard-rate stamp, and was prompted because Matthew and some of his friends collected Germany and sought a tie-in.  Issued on 8th May 2005.


Kemp Land 2005 Third Reich set on first day cover.

I got some funny looks from the platemaker when getting the plates made to print the Nazi logo on the envelope!


Kemp Land 2003 1st anniversary of the assassination of General Matthew Campbell.

Matthew sent his photograph to be used for this stamp, wearing his Kemp Land Army uniform.  This has a red satin ribbon emblazoned on the tunic, with the words KEMP LAND ARMY in black: printed on my Adana a year or so previously.

I suggested to Matthew that he should always keep a few of this stamp in his wallet, just in case he happens to get run over by a bus or train.  The gendarmes will then be most perplexed to find stamps celebrating the first anniversary of his death in his pocket!  However, as I write, he remains in good health.


Now let’s look at some more of the early typography issues, before the year 2000:


Kemp Land 1996 Galaxy Master Battenberg visits Antarctic UFO Bases. SQ 101 – 103.

This set of three was printed on white gloss art paper with Adana 8x5 press.  The lettering was done with the trusty IBM Composer.  The 45c is quite a vivid fluorescent pink colour, which looks a lot brighter than shown here. Issue date was 23rd June 1996.



Kemp Land 1992 ICIS Year of the Atmosphere. SQ 86.

This stamp was made by overprinting a Samoan 1952 ½d stamp. Matthew purchased a full sheet of this from a local dealer at a cheap price, and sent them to Bruce with instructions on how the overprint should be done.  A plate was made for the semi-circular text, while metal type sufficed for the remaining text. Issue date was 10th July 1992.



Kemp Land 1992-96 Thoughts of Chairman Eric. SQ 79 – 85.

This set is a homage to China’s “Thoughts of Chairman Mao” set, and features pithy and often irreverent remarks from Kemp Land’s Great Leader.  The set was intended to be the definitive issue.  Each stamp was printed as each design was received over the period from 1992 to 1996.  The 45c has an attached tab with a knife and fork, which means Not to be delivered at dinnertime.  The tab could be detached if the letter was particularly urgent. (Dinnertime is considered a sacred hour in Kemp Land, and it is extremely rude to interrupt diners, except in an emergency.)

The 5c and 15c were both printed from the same plate: after all the 15c had been printed, the “1” was excised, and then the 5c value was printed. Platemaking is expensive, so we need to trim costs where ever possible. All typesetting done with the IBM Composer, and printed with both Heidelberg Platen and Adana presses. The $3 stamp is in vivid fluorescent pink, which looks a lot brighter in reality than the scan here. There is also a green 90c stamp, not shown here (but an overprinted version of it was illustrated earlier.)



Kemp Land 1995 20th anniversary of the death of Hank Snow (patriot). SQ 94 – 97.

This set honours Hank Snow, a member of the Kemp Land Army who gave his life in the fight for freedom from the frumious Australians. Designed by Matthew, and printed on gloss white paper with Adana 8x5 press. Issue date was 4th November 1995.


Kemp Land Stamp Catalogue 1997, by Simon Quaritch.

This hard-cover catalogue was published by Lancaster Publishing in 1997, and lists all the stamps of Kemp Land up to the Mark Chapman issue. It is now out of print, but a new update is in preparation.  Stamps of http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land are referred to by theirSQnumbers, a homage to the “SG” numbers of the First World.

The title on the front cover and spine are in shiny metallic gold, done by hot-foil.  It is hard to photograph this without getting a mirror-type reflection, but we seem to have done it here. Wink


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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 27 July 2017 at 02:03
Let’s look at some more of Kemp Land’s amusing and often controversial stamps.


Kemp Land 2004 Modern Art set.

This set features nude paintings by the Auckland artist John Winton Burke, who Bruce met and recommended the paintings set to Matthew.  As Matthew is a connoisseur of art, he was delighted with the issue, and a supply of each stamp was presented to the artist to hand out like business cards to his fans.


Kemp Land 2009 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano.

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (1655 – 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano.  This seemed an important event to celebrate with a stamp issue. I remain amazed that few other lands bothered to celebrate such a momentous anniversary!



Kemp Land 2002 Antarctic Feline Club.


This was the usual set of four values (the $3 was shown earlier in this thread) and is notable for being completely sold out in the month of issue!  I offered them on both Ebay and Trademe at the time of issue, and seriously underestimated the demand. My cats who modelled for the stamps were rewarded with cans of exotic food as their royalty.




Kemp Land 2007 700th anniversary of the betrayal of the Knights Templar.

This stamp was an omnibus by the KDPN, and when agreeing to participate in the omnibus, Matthew requested his unique version of the text at the foot.  


Kemp Land 2007 Knights Templar sheet.


Kemp Land 2010 Revolutionary Heroes set.

Matthew (a keen collector of Germany) was anxious to have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg" rel="nofollow - Von Stauffenberg , architect of the plot to overthrow Hitler in 1944, featured on a stamp, which prompted this set.  The ornate borders on this set were a new development, and made this issue an attractive set.


         
Kemp Land 2000 Year of the Dragon.


The Year of the Dragon stamp shows a photo of one of the Great Philatelists of the World, Matthew, holding a Yemen cover from his collection.  The 30c stamp at the left is the “normal” version, with the small “dragon” logo to the left of Matthew’s head facing left.  A very small number of stamps had the error with the dragon logo facing right (right stamp.)


Kemp Land 2000 Antarctic dogs – good friends.


The year 2000 saw a lot of full-colour stamps for Kemp Land as I was doing the multimedia training course that year so printed the stamps off by day at school, then perfed them when I got home that night.  I submitted a collection of the stamps as work done for the course, which surprised my tutors!

Now let’s look at some more of the early typography issues, before the year 2000:

  



  
Kemp Land 1997 20th anniversary of the All-Antarctic Federation of Philatelists. SQ 117 – 120.

This set of four was printed on white gloss art paper with Adana 8x5 press, while the 45c was a mass edition done on thick matt paper with Heidelberg platen press.  Matthew sourced the illustration.  The lettering was done by computer.  The 75c is a metallic silver colour, which looks a lot shinier than shown here. Issue date was 22nd October 1997.


Kemp Land 1995 Framnes Mountains National Park.  SQ 91 – 92.

This set was from cartoons by Matthew.  The stamps were printed on white paper with invisible gum, with Adana press. Issue date was 13th August 1995.


Kemp Land 1998 Michael Hutchence (musician) commemoration. SQ 121.

This issue helped Kemp Land to win the “Bad Taste Award” from “Stamp Magazine” in the UK, illustrated earlier.  The design was a magazine photo, which Matthew had modified by adding the necklace and protruding tongue.  Printed on white gloss art paper with Adana press. Issue date was 14th January 1998.


Kemp Land 1990 150th anniversary of the world’s first postage stamp (the “Penny Black”). SQ 67.

What philatelist could ignore the Penny Black anniversary?  The stamp was printed on white paper with shiny gum with Adana 8x5 press. Issue date was 6th May 1990.


Kemp Land 1988 20th anniversary of Occussi-Ambeno’s independence. SQ 62.

This was the first stamp I printed for Kemp Land, and so got the country name slightly incorrect, missing out the “Democratic”.  It was one of a set of two in identical design, with the design by Geir Sor-Reime. Printed by Heidelberg platen press.


Kemp Land 1998 Matthew’s Wedding. SQ 122.

As I had no photo of the happy couple to work with, I did a special printing of the Framnes Mountains National Park (SQ 91) on white gloss paper and in a different colour, then did the overprint with gold hotfoil in Old English text.  The happy couple were delighted. Issue date was 21st February 1998.


Kemp Land 1998 Princess Diana (humanitarian) commemoration. SQ 130.

Matthew submitted the cartoon of the princess, which I added text to with computer, then printed in gold ink on glossy white art paper. Issue date was 19th July 1998.

Finally, let’s look at another of the early photocopied issues, before I began printing Kemp Land issues:



Kemp Land 1990 10th anniversary of the Security Police. SQ 72.

Matthew submitted the design to Geir in Norway, who photocopied it on red paper, then returned them all to Matthew in Australia.  He later sent them all to me for perfing and issue. The innocent-faced officer shown is possibly the same gentleman who reads all Kemp Land’s mail, then stamps it “Passed by censor.”  Clearly an important public service.  Issue date was 25th November 1990.

Kemp Land stamps continue to be issued.  If you would like any, or have any comments or suggestions for new issues, contact the Kemp Land Information Service, 115-c Essex Street, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 27 July 2017 at 02:06

Kemp Land 2007 Knights Templars betrayed.

Hi folks, thought you might be interested to know that I have at long last done a new website for Matthew's small Antarctic country, the Gay Republic of Kemp Land.
 
See it here:  http://geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - http://geocities.ws/kempland
 
(As you can see by the "ws", the website lives in Samoa. Kemp Land does not yet have its own suffix, but they are working on it.)
 
And you will be happy to see that it does not have ANY Hitler or Wannsee Conference stamps or mentions, so far.  But this will probably change after Matthew looks at it and asks for additions.
 
Also, please let me know of any buttons or links that "don't work".  Being a new site, it probably has an error or two that I should fix.  Also, tell me if you see any spelling mistakes.
 
cheers, Bruce.
 
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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 06 August 2017 at 02:19
Kemp Land's latest commemorative set celebrates the
First Antarctic Ecumenical Congress, being held in Bonjo Town in August, 2017.

The stamps feature Christian heroes.


Kemp Land 2017 1st Antarctic Ecumenical Congress, Bonjo Town.

General William Booth (60c stamp)  (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army" rel="nofollow - The Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid. In 2002, Booth was named among the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll.

Rev. Martin Luther (90c stamp) (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" rel="nofollow - Roman Catholic Church . He strongly disputed the Catholic view on indulgences, that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. Luther proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" rel="nofollow - Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.

Luther taught that salvation and, consequently, eternal life are not earned by good deeds but are received only as the free gift of God's grace through the believer's faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge from God and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood. Those who identify with these, and all of Luther's wider teachings, are called Lutherans, though Luther insisted on Christian or Evangelical as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ.

His translation of the Bible into the vernacular (instead of Latin) made it more accessible to the laity, an event that had a tremendous impact on both the church and German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the writing of an English translation, the Tyndale Bible. His hymns influenced the development of singing in Protestant churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora, a former nun, set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant clergy to marry.

In two of his later works, Luther expressed antagonistic views towards Jews, writing that Jewish homes and synagogues should be destroyed, their money confiscated, and liberty curtailed.


Rev. John Calvin  ($1.35 stamp) (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, aspects of which include the doctrines of predestination and of the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation, in which doctrines Calvin was influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed, and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.

Calvin was a tireless polemic and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. Calvin wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, confessional documents, and various other theological treatises.

Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" rel="nofollow - Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions erupted in widespread deadly violence against Protestant Christians in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition of the Institutes. In that same year, Calvin was recruited by Frenchman William Farel to help reform the church in Geneva, where he regularly preached sermons throughout the week; but the governing council of the city resisted the implementation of their ideas, and both men were expelled. At the invitation of Martin Bucer, Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees. He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and in 1541 he was invited back to lead the church of the city.

Following his return, Calvin introduced new forms of church government and liturgy, despite opposition from several powerful families in the city who tried to curb his authority. During this period, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus" rel="nofollow - Michael Servetus , a Spaniard regarded by both Roman Catholics and Protestants as having a heretical view of the Trinity, arrived in Geneva. He was denounced by Calvin and burned at the stake for heresy by the city council. Calvin spent his final years promoting the Reformation both in Geneva and throughout Europe.


Joseph Smith Jr. ($3 stamp) (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon" rel="nofollow - Book of Mormon . By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present.

Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont. By 1817, he had moved with his family to what became known as the burned-over district of western New York, an area of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. He experienced a series of visions, including one in which he saw "two personages" (God the Father and Jesus Christ) and others in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization. In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon" rel="nofollow - Book of Mormon . The same year he organized the Church of Christ, calling it a restoration of the early Christian church. Members of the church were later called "Latter Day Saints", or "Mormons", and in 1838, Smith announced a revelation that renamed the church as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communalistic American Zion. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio, and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri, which was intended to be Zion's "center place". During the 1830s, Smith sent out missionaries, published revelations, and supervised construction of the expensive Kirtland Temple. Skirmishes with non-Mormon Missourians caused Smith and his followers to establish a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became a spiritual and political leader. In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy. After Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, he was killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse.


Come to the Cross! - slogan of the First Antarctic Ecumenical Congress.




Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 13 August 2017 at 14:00
Kemp Land's new commemorative set celebrates the First Antarctic Ecumenical Congress, being held in Bonjo Town in August, 2017.

The stamps feature Christian heroes.


Kemp Land 2017 1st Antarctic Ecumenical Congress, Bonjo Town: the miniature sheet.

Come to the Cross! - slogan of the First Antarctic Ecumenical Congress.



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 05 December 2017 at 03:05
Kemp Land's latest special issue promotes the campaign to save mushrooms from extinction. 

In this era of climate upheaval, there is growing concern that some important species may be wiped out.

The stamps feature colourful mushrooms. One of the set is hexagonal, and this is the first time that Kemp Land has ever issued a hexagonal stamp.


Kemp Land 2017 Save the Mushrooms of Planet Earth.

Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric (75c stamp), is a basidiomycete mushroom, one of many in the genus Amanita. It is also a muscimol mushroom. Native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine and birch plantations, & is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous & coniferous trees.

One of the most iconic toadstool species, the fly agaric is one of the most recognisable & widely encountered in popular culture.

Although classified as poisonous, reports of human deaths resulting from its ingestion are extremely rare. After parboiling—which weakens its toxicity & breaks down the mushroom's psychoactive substances—it is eaten in parts of Europe, Asia, & North America. Amanita muscaria is noted for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol.

Psilocybe cubensis (15c stamp) is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, or goldtops, it belongs to the Hymenogastraceae family of fungi. It is the most well known psilocybin mushroom due to its wide distribution & ease of cultivation.

Panaeolus subbalteatus ($3 stamp) is a very common, widely distributed psilocybin mushroom. Psilocybin is similar in structure to the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is associated with mood regulation, appetite, sleep, learning & the cardiovascular system among others. Thus psilocybin may disrupt the actions of serotonin, accounting for its effects such as restlessness, increased heart rate, & inability to concentrate.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 02 June 2018 at 16:08
Kemp Land's new commemorative set celebrates Great Gays of the world, issued in June, 2018.

The stamps feature famous homosexual heroes.


Kemp Land 2018 Great Gays of the World.

Since the Gay Revolution way back in 2015, Kemp Land has been keen to show prominent gays on its stamps, so this attractive set has now appeared to grace the mail from this small Antarctic land.

Some background on the heroes shown:

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) on the 45c stamp, was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

As a spokesman for aestheticism, he published a book of poems, lectured in the USA and Canada on the "English Renaissance in Art", then returned to London where he worked as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress & glittering conversational skill, he became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues & essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was jailed from 1895 to 1897.

LIBERACE (1919-1987) on the $3 stamp, was an American pianist, singer, & actor. A child prodigy, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, & endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to the 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world. He embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on & off stage, acquiring the nickname "Mr. Showmanship".

ROCK HUDSON (1925-1985) on the $1.35 stamp, was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. He appeared in nearly 70 films & became the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.

What turned him into a star was the 1954 film Magnificent Obsession, co-starring Jane Wyman, produced by Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk. The film received positive reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year. It made over $5 million at the box office.

Hudson went back to adventure films with Bengal Brigade (1954), set during the Indian Mutiny, and Captain Lightfoot (1955), produced by Hunter and directed by Sirk. In 1954, exhibitors voted Hudson the 17th most popular star in the country.

Hunter used him in two melodramas, One Desire (1955) with Anne Baxter, and All That Heaven Allows (1955), which reunited him with Sirk and Wyman. Never Say Goodbye (1956) was more drama.

Hudson's popularity soared with George Stevens' film Giant (1956). Hudson and his co-star James Dean were both nominated for Oscars in the Best Actor category. Another hit was Written on the Wind (1957), directed by Sirk and produced by Albert Zugsmith. Sirk also directed Hudson in Battle Hymn (1957), produced by Hudson, playing Dean Hess. These films propelled Hudson be voted the most popular actor in American cinemas in 1957. He stayed in the "top ten" until 1964.

ERNST ROHM (1887 - 1934) on the 75c stamp, was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander. By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives.

In 1919 he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), which the following year became the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Not long afterward he met Adolf Hitler, and they became political allies and close friends. He led the Reichskriegsflagge militia at the time of the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, when it occupied the War Ministry for sixteen hours.

Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 9 November 1923, Röhm, Hitler, & others were tried in February 1924 for high treason. Röhm was found guilty and sentenced to a year and three months in prison, but the sentence was suspended and he was granted a conditional discharge.

In 1928, he accepted a post in Bolivia as adviser to the Bolivian Army, where he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel and went to work after six months' acclimatization and language tutoring. After the 1930 revolt in Bolivia, Röhm was forced to seek sanctuary in the German Embassy. After the election results in Germany that September, Röhm received a telephone call from Hitler in which the latter told him "I need you", paving the way for Röhm's return to Germany.

In 1930, as a consequence of the Stennes Revolt in Berlin, Hitler assumed supreme command of the SA. He sent a personal request to Röhm, asking him to return to serve as the SA's chief of staff. Röhm accepted this offer and began his new assignment on 5 January 1931. He brought radical new ideas to the SA, and appointed several close friends to its senior leadership.

The SA by this time numbered over a million members. It continued its street battles with "Reds" and its attacks on Jews. The SA also attacked or intimidated anyone deemed hostile to the Nazi agenda, including uncooperative editors, professors, politicians, other local officials and businessmen.

Under Röhm, the SA often took the side of workers in strikes and other labor disputes, attacking strikebreakers and supporting picket lines. SA intimidation contributed to the rise of the Nazis and the violent suppression of right-wing parties during electoral campaigns, but its reputation for street violence and heavy drinking was a hindrance, as was the open homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders such as his deputy Edmund Heines. In 1931, the Münchener Post newspaper, obtained and published Röhm's letters to a friend discussing his homosexual affairs.

Hitler was aware of Röhm's homosexuality. At this point they were so close that they addressed each other as du (the German familiar form of "you"). No other top Nazi leader enjoyed that privilege, and their close association led to rumors that Hitler himself was homosexual. Röhm was the only Nazi leader who dared to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" or his nickname "Adi" rather than "mein Führer."

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 20 June 2018 at 05:37
I am happy to announce Kemp Land's first new stamps for 2018.

The set of two (issued on 8th April 2018) celebrates the 50th anniversary of independence of http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno .  A most noteworthy event in the Fifth World, and an anniversary that few expected to see!

The designs feature
http://www.angelfire.com/art/okusi/coins.htm" rel="nofollow - gold and silver coins of http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno , as well as a pair of sun parrakeets on the 15 cents stamp, and the airship "Graf Zeppelin" on the 75 cents.



Kemp Land 2018 Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence of Occussi-Ambeno set.
Coins of Occussi-Ambeno are shown along with sun parrakeets and the "Graf Zeppelin" airship.


These are part of an "omnibus" issue, with many of Occussi-Ambeno's friends and allies issuing similar stamps to celebrate the long-awaited anniversary.

Originally posted by Wikipedia Wikipedia wrote:

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127; Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. When it entered commercial service in 1928, it became the first commercial passenger transatlantic flight service in the world. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a count (Graf) in the German nobility. During its operating life, the airship made 590 flights covering more than 1.7 million kilometers (over 1 million miles). It was designed to be operated by a crew of 36 officers and men. The LZ 127 was the longest rigid airship at the time of its completion and was only surpassed by the USS Akron in 1931. It was scrapped for fighter plane parts in 1940.


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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 21 June 2018 at 23:52


Originally posted by Some other guy Some other guy wrote:

Liberace - GAY????

The Courts have declared that allegation is untrue and defamatory - and Liberace denied he was all his life -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror

Liberace v Daily Mirror

Entertainer Liberace (pictured) was awarded £8,000 in damages for an article strongly hinting he was a homosexual.

Liberace v Daily Mirror is a 1959 English legal case in which the American entertainer Liberace sued the Daily Mirror columnist William Connor for libel after Connor, who while writing under the pen name Cassandra, published an article strongly hinting that he was a homosexual.

At the time homosexuality was illegal in the United Kingdom. Liberace was successful in the action and was awarded £8,000.

The award was the largest libel settlement for any case in British legal history.

The Argus has described the case as "one of the most sensational libel trials of the century".

Facts

The libel action related to an article Connor wrote describing Liberace as

    "...the summit of sex - the pinnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want... a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love."

The case partly hinged on the use of the term "fruit-flavoured" as fruit is an American slang term for a homosexual. Connor denied he was familiar with this usage. In court Liberace denied he was gay stating "I am against the practice because it offends convention and it offends society".

Aftermath

Following his award for damages, Liberace joked that "I cried all the way to the bank". Liberace continued to maintain that he was not a homosexual throughout his life.


 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 22 June 2018 at 00:00
I am surprised to see many folks have taken the http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land Gay issue so personally.  Matthew requested the inclusion of Rohm in the Great Gays set, as he likes Germany stamps, and wanted to take the piss out of the Nazis with their anti-gay laws while having such blatant gays as Rohm (and maybe Hitler too?) running the show.
 
I am NOT a supporter of Nazism or fascism.  But recognise that such stuff exists in the globe, and that a lot of what we are told as "approved history" about the rise of Hitler is very suspect.
 
However, I do renounce any suggestions that I approve of Hitler and Nazis.  I collect Germany, as does Matthew, and that collecting is his reason behind having the odd German on http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land stamps.
 
You may recall he had Stauffenberg (the guy who led the 1944 attempt on Hitler's life) on an earlier issue.  Funny no-one bothered to moan about that. Known terrorist, etc etc.
 
Thanks Otherguy for your overview on Liberace.  A fascinating lad! If we all followed his fashion-sense, the planet would be a much more colourful and gay place!


Kemp Land 2018 Great Gays of the World, the minisheet as issued.  A few extras of the Oscar Wilde, as 45c is the inland letter rate in Kemp Land.



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 10 May 2019 at 20:40

Kemp Land 2017 1st Antarctic Ecumenical Congress set on first day cover.

The Christians are having a jolly old time in the Antarctic, with their heroes shown on these attractive stamps.  :D



Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 10:58
That Congress looks a barrel of fun. Bet the bar closed late.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 14:35
Yes, gallons of yummy communion wine scoffed till the wee small hours, as the finer points of Luther's theses were debated!

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 22:07
I am new to this forum so please forgive me if I am misinterpreting this thread (and others by Panterra) BUT...

The thread contains a continuing dialogue between the author and other members who as far as I can tell are not, and appear never to have ever been, members of this forum.

Has the thread been copied wholesale from another forum where the anti-gay comments were originally made?) In which case what a pity that such bigotry has to be repeated here.

OR

Have the apparent anti-gay comments been edited out by an admin.  In which case it has not been edited very well and I am compelled to offer my services as an admin to aid the better performance of this task in future. 

When I joined recently I had to agree to not post threads or comments about politics (which surely includes a discussion of whether Nazi politicians were 'gay' or not) race and religion (also, though comparatively mildly, being poked at here).  I am asking, as a newbie, where that line is drawn.

What a pity that such lazy cutting and pasting or editing* should spoil what is otherwise a great forum and will become a part of how outsiders might see our hobby when coming across this apparently ongoing discussion through an internet search, being the most recent posting which therefore tops the list.  



* I would like to make it absolutely clear that my comments about lazy cutting and pasting or editing are not intended as any reflection on the design or content of the artwork shown.





Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 23:50
Originally posted by Alison Alison wrote:

I am new to this forum so please forgive me if I am misinterpreting this thread (and others by Panterra) BUT...

The thread contains a continuing dialogue between the author and other members who as far as I can tell are not, and appear never to have ever been, members of this forum.

Has the thread been copied wholesale from another forum where the anti-gay comments were originally made?) In which case what a pity that such bigotry has to be repeated here.


These are selected comments made on other forums concerning these stamps, copied and pasted here.
[QUOTE=Panterra]This set, issued on the actual anniversary of the conference, 20th January 2017, has aroused vitriol on the Stampboards site, with some condemning it as anti-semitic. Here are a few of the remarks:
. some on the stampboard forum can be quite forceful in expressing their opinions.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 00:45
Originally posted by Steve Steve wrote:

Originally posted by Alison Alison wrote:

I am new to this forum so please forgive me if I am misinterpreting this thread (and others by Panterra) BUT...

The thread contains a continuing dialogue between the author and other members who as far as I can tell are not, and appear never to have ever been, members of this forum.

Has the thread been copied wholesale from another forum where the anti-gay comments were originally made?) In which case what a pity that such bigotry has to be repeated here.


These are selected comments made on other forums concerning these stamps, copied and pasted here.
[QUOTE=Panterra]This set, issued on the actual anniversary of the conference, 20th January 2017, has aroused vitriol on the Stampboards site, with some condemning it as anti-semitic. Here are a few of the remarks:


some on the stampboard forum can be quite forceful in expressing their opinions.



Then it's a shame we have to have the comments of a few stampboard forum members repeated here when clearly no-one is interested in replying or commenting. What purpose does it serve apart from leaving a malicious footprint here should the comments ever be deleted from stampboard.com.

Couldn't we give it a more positive slant?   

Can we not post the pictures of these stamps up without using this forum as a platform with which to draw attention to bigotry on another forum that has no relation to us? Are we not able to make up our own minds here without having the comments of another totally unrelated forum forced upon us? 

What is the purpose of having rules here when they are so clearly flaunted, simply be stating that they are not the poster's comments but those of another forum?   

For this member to have picked through and 'selected' the comments repeated here from stampboards.com is most unfair as the only way members here can read the full story and properly make up their own minds is to go to stampboards.com (and join their forum) in order to read the complete thread and establish for themselves the degree of supposed vitriol and accusation of anti-semitism involved. What purpose does that serve???  

I am not criticising the forum admin here for any complacency but feel perhaps someone here should ask members to be more considerate in future, before using our forum for their own promotion and self-seeking advancement. 




Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 03:58
I'll just keep quiet then

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Posted By: Colin
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 04:18
Originally posted by Alison Alison wrote:



I am not criticising the forum admin here for any complacency



This is an old-ish thread - from a member whose comments are often (like his stamps!) quirky - that had been updated recently. It didn't bother me at the time, I'm all for freedom of speech. 

And I'm sure (though I didn't look as I wasn't all that interested in the stamps in question) that the stampboards thread eventually settled down to a decent discussion and then probably fizzled out. 

I actually got kicked off the stampboards forum for absent-mindedly linking to this forum when discussing my own stamps there so I don't go there anymore. 

But what do other members feel?  I'm happy to ask Panterra to recalibrate if people are offended and I'm sure he'd oblige.




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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 04:48
Those posts have been there a couple of years without offence or comment.

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Posted By: moist
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 06:47
Originally posted by Steve Steve wrote:

Those posts have been there a couple of years without offence or comment.


I'm not offended by the comments about the comments received on the other forum, or the comments about the comments about the comments there.  

This whole thread revels in its ability to outrage (or 'out' rage). it is DESPERATE for a reaction and giving it any kind of renewed credence here only serves to play into the hands of the provocateur and to re-direct members to another forum to understand what the fuss is/was all about. Don't bother.

I am surprised anyone took the stamps so seriously on stampboard, they look intentionally amateur and designed to provoke a kneejerk response. The crudeness of the artwork (and I do not mean this in a derogatory way, I am sure it was absolutely intended to look rough) reminds me of 1970's University 'rag mags' artwork. More of an attempt at art than design.


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 30 May 2019 at 00:30
Kemp Land's new commemorative set features beautiful orchids.

The stamp issue was requested by the new gay President of http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land , Aubrey McKinnon.  The most colourful and bright orchids that could be found were used for the set. The stamps have been printed by the Occussi-Ambeno Government Printer, http://www.angelfire.com/art/okusi/kdpn1.htm" rel="nofollow - KDPN , in small minisheets comprising two sets.


Kemp Land 2018 Beautiful Orchids of Planet Earth.

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and is more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species.

Phalaenopsis (1825), known as moth orchids, abbreviated Phal in the horticultural trade, is an orchid genus of approximately 60 species. Phalaenopsis is one of the most popular orchids in the trade, through the development of many artificial hybrids. It is native to southern China, Taiwan, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia (Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.), New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Queensland. In http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land , it is grown in insulated glasshouses.

Dendrobium is a huge genus of orchids. It was established by Olof Swartz in 1799 and today contains about 1,200 species. The genus occurs in diverse habitats throughout much of south, east and southeast Asia, including China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Vietnam, and many of the islands of the Pacific, as well as http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land . The name is from the Greek dendron ("tree") and bios ("life"); it means "one who lives on trees", or, essentially, "epiphyte".

In 1981, Briegar reclassified all terete-leaved Dendrobiums from Australia and New Guinea into a new genus, Dockrillia. The Winika orchid from New Zealand was formerly D. cunninghamii, but has now been moved into a monotypic genus Winika. In 1989, Clements upgraded the D. speciosum complex into individual species; similarly, the D. bigibbum complex (which contains the well-known Cooktown Orchid of Australia, D. phalaenopsis) has recently been split up. However, as an illustration of the current revisions in the taxonomy of Orchidaceae these 'splits' have now been reversed and the currently accepted species, natural nothospecies are presented on https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dendrobium" rel="nofollow - Wikispecies Dendrobium. The site includes a list of references that help explain the contemporary taxonomy of Dendrobium Sw., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 82 (1799), nom. cons.


Enjoy the beautiful orchids of planet Earth! - we all need to brighten up our lives and stamp collections.



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 30 May 2019 at 21:14
Registered mail:

Kemp Land 2018 registered post to Australia.


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 31 May 2019 at 17:00

Kemp Land 2019 first direct airship flight from http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land to Occussi-Ambeno.  Gold overprint on the 90c Orchid stamp.

The big event for the small Antarctic country of http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land in 2019 is slated to be the first zeppelin flight to its ally, Occussi-Ambeno.

To celebrate the event, the 90c Orchid stamp has been overprinted in gold with the zeppelin emblem of Occussi-Ambeno's airline, http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - Swiftair , and the text "First direct Airship Flight: Kemp Land to Occussi-Ambeno, 2019".

The flight is expected to take place within the next two months, weather permitting, so anyone keen to get a carried cover can contact me to arrange something.

More info: visit the http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - website for http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - Swiftair [size=75], the zeppelin airline of Occussi-Ambeno, for safe flight in helium airships:
  http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - http://geocities.ws/swiftair



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 19 August 2019 at 04:17

Kemp Land 2017 1st Antarctic Ecumenical Congress set on first day cover.

The Christians are having a jolly old time in the Antarctic, with their heroes shown on these attractive stamps.  Wink



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 19 August 2019 at 15:46

Kemp Land 2008 Shackleton Expedition centenary set.

To celebrate the centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton 1907 to 1909, the small Antarctic country Kemp Land issued a set of four stamps in 2008.

The designs:


5 cents ... Adelie penguins.

30 cents ... Shackleton's expedition ship, the "Nimrod", departing from Lyttelton for Antarctica, 1907.

75 cents ... The Beardmore Glacier, first discovered by Shackleton.

$3 ... Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922).

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This set was a joint issue with http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/" rel="nofollow - Mevu , which issued similar stamps.

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude 190 km from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying -– the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole.

For more information on http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land and its stamps, please visit the http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land website , http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - www.geocities.ws/kempland

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 03 September 2019 at 01:20


In case you are wondering if wartime conditions make the "censorship" necessary, PEACE has broken out in the http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Gay Republic of Kemp Land ,  but mail censorship (established under the old Stalinist regime) has not yet been abolished.

Probably because so much mail-porn is sent in handwritten letters, and the censors really enjoy reading it all (after all, how many jobs are you actually paid to read porn?)



Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 13 September 2019 at 02:00
Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:


Kemp Land 2019 first direct airship flight from http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land to Occussi-Ambeno.  Gold overprint on the 90c Orchid stamp.
The big event for the small Antarctic country of http://geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land in 2019 is slated to be the first zeppelin flight to its ally, Occussi-Ambeno.

To celebrate the event, the 90c Orchid stamp has been overprinted in gold with the zeppelin emblem of Occussi-Ambeno's airline, http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - Swiftair , and the text "First direct Airship Flight: Kemp Land to Occussi-Ambeno, 2019".

The flight is expected to take place within the next two months, weather permitting, so anyone keen to get a carried cover can contact me to arrange something.

More info: visit the http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - website for http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - Swiftair , the zeppelin airline of Occussi-Ambeno, for safe flight in helium airships:
  http://geocities.ws/swiftair/" rel="nofollow - http://geocities.ws/swiftair


The zeppelin has just arrived, and my friend Jesus was lucky enough to get a cover sent to him:

Kemp Land 2019 First direct airship flight from Kemp Land to Occussi-Ambeno,
first day cover flown on the flight.


A few others available for trade, for those who like zeppelin stamps and covers.




Posted By: Admin
Date Posted: 16 September 2019 at 00:35
I assume you have checked with your friends Jesus and Glen that they won't mind having their personal addresses splashed across the internet?   

We have data protection laws here in the UK about such things but perhaps the same does not apply in Australia. 

As a general guide - and wearing my boring old Admin hat here - I would not recommend anyone publishes any individual's address details on our forum as we cannot be held responsible for how it may be used.


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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 16 September 2019 at 01:36
I suggest that the worst outcome that Jesus and Glen can expect from having their addresses shown on the envelopes is that people may actually try writing them letters.

But as stamp-collectors, such letters are normally welcomed.  Otherwise, how else do they get used stamps on cover?  (Buying them is not nearly as much fun as getting them in your letterbox!)


Posted By: Colin
Date Posted: 16 September 2019 at 02:45
If I need to show an addressed cover online I normally blur or obscure the address, the bits that stamp collectors are interested in do not normally extend to the recipient's personal details.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 21 September 2019 at 16:03

Kemp Land 2019 Dinosaurs set.

The President of the http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Gay Republic of Kemp Land , His Excellency, President Aubrey McKinnon, has announced that a new set of stamps will be issued by the Kemp Land Post Office shortly, featuring Dinosaurs.

"The 30 cent stamp shows the Argentinosaurus," the President explained, adding "this is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur first discovered by Guillermo Heredia in Argentina.  The dinosaur lived on the then-island continent of South America somewhere between 97 and 93½ million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. It is among the largest known dinosaurs."

Gasps from the press gallery followed when the President unveiled the design for the 90 cent stamp. "This giant-size stamp features Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosauri lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event."

The President then explained about the $1.35 stamp, the inland registered mail rate. "This stamp shows the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous  and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It is a member of the family Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks. Its name comes from the Mesoamerican feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl."

Finally, the top value was shown to the amazed journalists. "Patagotitan on the $3 stamp is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Cerro Barcino Formation in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species known from multiple individuals: Patagotitan mayorum, first announced in 2014 and then validly named in 2017 by José Carballido, Diego Pol and colleagues. Contemporary studies estimate the length of the type specimen, a young adult, at 37 meters with an approximate weight of 69 tonnes," he elaborated.

The President concluded by urging youth to study the extinct dinosaurs, and urged them to take action to reverse climate change so that no more extinction events occur in our lifetime.

Originally posted by Wikipedia Wikipedia wrote:

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago. With the exception of some ectothermic species such as the leatherback sea turtle and crocodiles, no tetrapods weighing more than 25 kilograms survived. It marked the end of the Cretaceous period and with it, the entire Mesozoic Era, opening the Cenozoic Era that continues today.

In the geologic record, the K–Pg event is marked by a thin layer of sediment called the K–Pg boundary, which can be found throughout the world in marine and terrestrial rocks. The boundary clay shows high levels of the metal iridium, which is rare in the Earth's crust, but abundant in asteroids.

As originally proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction was caused by the impact of a massive comet or asteroid 10 to 15 km wide, 66 million years ago, which devastated the global environment, mainly through a lingering impact winter which halted photosynthesis in plants and plankton. The impact hypothesis, also known as the Alvarez hypothesis, was bolstered by the discovery of the 180-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in the early 1990s, which provided conclusive evidence that the K–Pg boundary clay represented debris from an asteroid impact. The fact that the extinctions occurred simultaneously provides strong evidence that they were caused by the asteroid. A 2016 drilling project into the Chicxulub peak ring confirmed that the peak ring comprised granite ejected within minutes from deep in the earth, but contained hardly any gypsum, the usual sulfate-containing sea floor rock in the region: the gypsum would have vaporized and dispersed as an aerosol into the atmosphere, causing longer-term effects on the climate and food chain.

Other causal or contributing factors to the extinction may have been the Deccan Traps and other volcanic eruptions, climate change, and sea level change.

A wide range of species perished in the K–Pg extinction, the best-known being the non-avian dinosaurs. It also destroyed a plethora of other terrestrial organisms, including some mammals, pterosaurs, birds, lizards, insects, and plants. In the oceans, the K–Pg extinction killed off plesiosaurs and the giant marine lizards (Mosasauridae) and devastated fish, sharks, mollusks (especially ammonites, which became extinct), and many species of plankton. It is estimated that 75% or more of all species on Earth vanished. Yet the extinction also provided evolutionary opportunities: in its wake, many groups underwent remarkable adaptive radiation—sudden and prolific divergence into new forms and species within the disrupted and emptied ecological niches. Mammals in particular diversified in the Paleogene, evolving new forms such as horses, whales, bats, and primates. Birds, fish, and perhaps lizards also radiated.


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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 24 September 2019 at 20:42

Kemp Land 2008 Shackleton Expedition centenary set in minisheets.

To celebrate the centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton 1907 to 1909, the small Antarctic country Kemp Land issued a set of four stamps in 2008.

The designs:


5 cents ... Adelie penguins.

30 cents ... Shackleton's expedition ship, the "Nimrod", departing from Lyttelton for Antarctica, 1907.

75 cents ... The Beardmore Glacier, first discovered by Shackleton.

$3 ... Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922).

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This set was a joint issue with http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/" rel="nofollow - Mevu , which issued similar stamps.  The stamps appeared in the form of these two minisheets, so each Post Office purchaser got four sets of stamps.  Surprisingly, they are still on sale in Kemp Land. The five cent stamp has been reprinted in large sheets to allow for the huge demand for 5c stamps as a "make up rate".

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude 190 km from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying -– the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole.

For more information on http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land and its stamps, please visit the http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land website , http://www.geocities.ws/kempland" rel="nofollow - www.geocities.ws/kempland

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 01 November 2019 at 23:12
Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:


Kemp Land 2019 Dinosaurs set.

The President of the http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Gay Republic of Kemp Land , His Excellency, President Aubrey McKinnon, has announced that a new set of stamps will be issued by the Kemp Land Post Office shortly, featuring Dinosaurs.

"The 30 cent stamp shows the Argentinosaurus," the President explained, adding "this is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur first discovered by Guillermo Heredia in Argentina.  The dinosaur lived on the then-island continent of South America somewhere between 97 and 93½ million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. It is among the largest known dinosaurs."

Gasps from the press gallery followed when the President unveiled the design for the 90 cent stamp. "This giant-size stamp features Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosauri lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the Upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event."

The President then explained about the $1.35 stamp, the inland registered mail rate. "This stamp shows the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous  and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It is a member of the family Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks. Its name comes from the Mesoamerican feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl."

Finally, the top value was shown to the amazed journalists. "Patagotitan on the $3 stamp is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Cerro Barcino Formation in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species known from multiple individuals: Patagotitan mayorum, first announced in 2014 and then validly named in 2017 by José Carballido, Diego Pol and colleagues. Contemporary studies estimate the length of the type specimen, a young adult, at 37 meters with an approximate weight of 69 tonnes," he elaborated.

The President concluded by urging youth to study the extinct dinosaurs, and urged them to take action to reverse climate change so that no more extinction events occur in our lifetime.

Originally posted by Wikipedia Wikipedia wrote:

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago. With the exception of some ectothermic species such as the leatherback sea turtle and crocodiles, no tetrapods weighing more than 25 kilograms survived. It marked the end of the Cretaceous period and with it, the entire Mesozoic Era, opening the Cenozoic Era that continues today.

In the geologic record, the K–Pg event is marked by a thin layer of sediment called the K–Pg boundary, which can be found throughout the world in marine and terrestrial rocks. The boundary clay shows high levels of the metal iridium, which is rare in the Earth's crust, but abundant in asteroids.

As originally proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction was caused by the impact of a massive comet or asteroid 10 to 15 km wide, 66 million years ago, which devastated the global environment, mainly through a lingering impact winter which halted photosynthesis in plants and plankton. The impact hypothesis, also known as the Alvarez hypothesis, was bolstered by the discovery of the 180-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in the early 1990s, which provided conclusive evidence that the K–Pg boundary clay represented debris from an asteroid impact. The fact that the extinctions occurred simultaneously provides strong evidence that they were caused by the asteroid. A 2016 drilling project into the Chicxulub peak ring confirmed that the peak ring comprised granite ejected within minutes from deep in the earth, but contained hardly any gypsum, the usual sulfate-containing sea floor rock in the region: the gypsum would have vaporized and dispersed as an aerosol into the atmosphere, causing longer-term effects on the climate and food chain.

Other causal or contributing factors to the extinction may have been the Deccan Traps and other volcanic eruptions, climate change, and sea level change.

A wide range of species perished in the K–Pg extinction, the best-known being the non-avian dinosaurs. It also destroyed a plethora of other terrestrial organisms, including some mammals, pterosaurs, birds, lizards, insects, and plants. In the oceans, the K–Pg extinction killed off plesiosaurs and the giant marine lizards (Mosasauridae) and devastated fish, sharks, mollusks (especially ammonites, which became extinct), and many species of plankton. It is estimated that 75% or more of all species on Earth vanished. Yet the extinction also provided evolutionary opportunities: in its wake, many groups underwent remarkable adaptive radiation—sudden and prolific divergence into new forms and species within the disrupted and emptied ecological niches. Mammals in particular diversified in the Paleogene, evolving new forms such as horses, whales, bats, and primates. Birds, fish, and perhaps lizards also radiated.


And here is the delightful FDC, fresh from the Post Office:


Kemp Land 2019 Dinosaur set on first day cover.

I have a few extras and happy to exchange with any collectors who also enjoy dinosaurs.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 16 November 2019 at 22:29
Originally posted by Colin Colin wrote:

If I need to show an addressed cover online I normally blur or obscure the address, the bits that stamp collectors are interested in do not normally extend to the recipient's personal details.


I hope your remarks didn't get seen by the evil Mister Photobucket!  He seems to have applied this blurring advice to all the early PHOTOS in this thread!

What an idiot the evil Mister Photobucket is!


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 10 December 2019 at 23:21
Somehow I doubt the Brits will ever have the courage to declare themselves a Gay RepublicDespite millions of gays there, they are so insecure and mostly not "out".

In fact, the UK-based
http://www.cinderellastampclub.org.uk/" rel="nofollow - back in November 2017, refused to accept a full-page colour advert by the http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - promoting their stamps and refunded the payment made!  (But they happily printed a similar colour full-page advert by the http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/index.html" rel="nofollow - Republic of Mevu .)

Discrimination or what?!  The Kemp Landers were highly offended, and many philatelists there have given up collecting GB to retaliate.


Full-page colour advert submitted to "The Cinderella Philatelist" (UK) for January 2018 issue.  Refused: payment refunded.


Full-page colour advert printed in "The Cinderella Philatelist" (UK), October 2017 issue.  They had no issues with this one!



Posted By: hehapaoroto
Date Posted: 22 January 2020 at 03:37




Posted By: hehapaoroto
Date Posted: 22 January 2020 at 03:44
Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:

Somehow I doubt the Brits will ever have the courage to declare themselves a Gay RepublicDespite millions of gays there, they are so insecure and mostly not "out".

Panterra, I don't know exactly what kind of right-wing agenda you are trying to ply here but I can assure you most Brits do not take lightly to being told what they 'are', gay or otherwise.

You should be more careful of what you say and where, particularly when you have spread your own address details and those of your supporters all over the internet.  Your crude attempts at self-publicity might backfire on you.


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 25 January 2020 at 18:24
Oh gosh, this sounds like a threat!

I hope Rambo will come to my aid.

Kemp Land 2007 War Tax set.


Posted By: Admin
Date Posted: 27 January 2020 at 00:58
Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:

Oh gosh, this sounds like a threat!

I hope Rambo will come to my aid.



 
If you people cannot play nicely without goading each other on I will delete these threads.

That is your last and final warning.


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Any positive help appreciated!


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 27 January 2020 at 12:38
Sorry Sir!

I wouldn't dream of really releasing Rambo on anyone!

Kemp Land 1999 Glacier-Hiking Championships with "Winner" overprint.


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 25 March 2020 at 23:23
This year, 2020, is the fiftieth birthday of http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/index.html" rel="nofollow - Mevu , a small Antarctic republic first established in 1970, and which has been a steady stamp-issuer since then.

So to celebrate this birthday in a philatelic way, Kemp Land issued an attractive set of four stamps on 12th March 2020:



Kemp Land 2020 50th anniversary of Mevu's Independence.


Kemp Land 2020 50th anniversary of Mevu's Independence, first day cover.


Kemp Land 2020 50th anniversary of Mevu's Independence, miniature sheet.

The http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/" rel="nofollow - was founded in 1970, when a pioneering group established the country on the Riiser-Larsen Peninsular in Antarctica. The country underwent various changes of government over the years. In 1972, it became a National State, which prompted an armed rebellion, and in 1973, the rebels took over and set up the Democratic People's Co-operative Republic of Mevu (or DPCR Mevu, as it was abbreviated on the stamps.) In 1990, it celebrated its 20th Birthday, a truly monumental occasion! Later, the country joined the Antarctic Confederation of City Republics (ACCR) and decreased issuing its own stamps. Its identity has been rather subsumed to the ACCR since then.  Mevu was a founding member of the http://www.angelfire.com/art/icis/" rel="nofollow - International Council of Independent States ( http://www.angelfire.com/art/icis/" rel="nofollow - ICIS ), the “United Nations” of the Fifth World, in 1984.

The currency is 100 tanos = 1 reis.

Stamps and postal stationery have been issued since 1970, and new issues continue today.  A diverse and interesting collection can be formed of this land. Although most of the 20th century issues are rather difficult to find these days.



Mevu 1990 registered cover to Sedang. Probably philatelic.

Waikoa Island became a Protectorate of Mevu in 1972, and Mevu administrators have guided that
island since that time.  Today, Mevu citizens make up the main tourist group visiting Waikoa Island.
Frozen fish and ice are imported from Mevu, whilst tropical fruit and vegetables are exported to Mevu.

– from the Mevu and Waikoa Island websites.


Mevu 2005 Icebergs, 50 tanos. One of a set of four.

Sound like your type of place to visit? While sweltering in a heatwave, any respite would be welcome, even the chilly Antarctic!

Norwegian philatelist Geir Sor-Reime dreamed up Mevu in 1970, and began producing stamps. Geir was a trainee student of archæology at the time, and one of the things archæologists are taught is how to make usable copies of gravestone inscriptions: done using pencil rubbings.  So not being a printer, Geir’s early stamps were all done as pencil rubbings, using various coloured pencils, and were of course imperf.  Today, these are very scarce, but covers exist, and there have even been forgeries, some offered on Ebay!  Photos can be seen on the http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/" rel="nofollow - Mevu website : http://www.angelfire.com/country/mevu/" rel="nofollow - www.angelfire.com/country/mevu   Later, Geir began using photocopiers to produce his stamps: as these machines offered black as the only print colour, he used different paper colours to print the stamps on. He has also experimented with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectograph" rel="nofollow - hectograph -prints, which offer violet as the only available colour, and also rubber stamps.


One of Mevu's first issue from 1970, 2 reis salmon, a pencil-rubbing imperf (here affixed upside down, on a FDC.)

In 1972, Geir found that running his Cinderella land was consuming too much time, so he offered it to me (as I was then running http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno , the only other Fifth World land around at the time, and had established diplomatic and cordial relations with Mevu.)  I accepted the offer, and began printing new Mevu stamps, mainly using letterpress (often called typography by philatelists): the process attributed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" rel="nofollow - Johan Gutenberg .  Later, after he graduated, Geir resumed Mevu issues, while I have continued to print new stamps for the country as well.  Today, most Mevu stamps are laser-printed in full colour, and perforated: a far cry from the 1970 issues!

Here we are in 2020, which marks Mevu’s 50th birthday.  An event that certainly deserves some serious celebrating by Cinderella philately!  Mevu and its colony Waikoa Island have both produced an attractive set of four stamps to celebrate the half-century, and the same designs have been used for similar sets by their friends http://okusi1.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno and http://geocities.ws/kempland/index.html" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land .



Mevu 2020 50th Anniversary of Independence set. Each stamp also shows the Mevu flag.

These stamps feature photos of penguins and transport in Mevu; the photos were reportedly taken by the President of Mevu, Her Excellency, Mrs Liese Keller.  Designs of the Mevu set are:

17 tanosTwin Otter aircraft at Amundsen Harbour, and Mevu founder Lemmath Babi.
35 tanosPenguins Parade, and early Antarctic explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928).
50 tanosMail by tractor, and early Antarctic explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928).
1.70 reisEmperor Penguin, and Mevu founder Lemmath Babi.

Date of issue was 12th March 2020.  The stamps are reported to have been printed in full colour and perforated 12 gauge, by Chan Hui Shudian Printing SA, Minaue, Waikoa Island.

Geir himself has modelled for the founder of Mevu, Lemmath Babi.  According to the Mevu website, Lemmath is married to Mevu’s current President, Liese Keller.

Folks interested in acquiring Mevu stamps and covers are welcome to get these by trading some of your duplicates, or mint commemorative sets of your country.  Contact either of the Mevu embassies for these:


ICIS Regional Office,
P. O. Box 876,
Auckland,
New Zealand 1140.

WOPHAD Agency,
Haugliveien 10,
NO-4020 Stavanger,
Norway.


Mevu tourism poster, published by the Ministry of Commerce, Mevu.


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Posted By: hehapaoroto
Date Posted: 26 March 2020 at 00:32
I hadn't noticed the 45 degree line screen on the ICEBERG stamp, until I was enlarging the photos to save and print them out for myself.

Do you overlay that as a separate layer as part of the image file, or add it to the page artwork at a later stage to ensure it stays black when printed on the laser printer?

That's a realy nice effect either way, great work yet again, Colin  Thumbs Up


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 26 March 2020 at 01:21
Originally posted by hehapaoroto hehapaoroto wrote:

I hadn't noticed the 45 degree line screen on the ICEBERG stamp, until I was enlarging the photos to save and print them out for myself.

Do you overlay that as a separate layer as part of the image file, or add it to the page artwork at a later stage to ensure it stays black when printed on the laser printer?

That's a realy nice effect either way, great work yet again, Colin  Thumbs Up


Hi Hehapaoroto, I'm actually Bruce, not Colin.

The screen is done automatically by the Photoshop program.

If you like the Mevu stamps, write to either of the embassies (along with some stamps to trade) and request a collection.  We have lots of stamps looking for warm and welcoming homes! Cry


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 26 March 2020 at 16:28
I'm nonplussed to see that I somehow overlooked showing Kemp Land's interesting 2016 issue: the Chinese Cultural Revolution set:


Kemp Land 2016 Chinese Cultural Revolution set.

China has millions of philatelists (reputedly more than in any other country, certainly more than in Kemp Land!), and most of those collect anything with a "China theme", which is why many postal administrations today issue stamps for the Asian New Year, as they know they will sell thousands of sets and minisheets to China.  Whereas "regular" commemoratives, these days they are lucky if they even recover their printing cost.  So stamps celebrating a monumental event in China's history seemed far more relevant than a silly new year, according to Kemp Land's rulers.

Originally posted by Trademe website Trademe website wrote:

Kemp Land issued this set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Date of issue was 19th July 2016.

The four stamps feature photos of personalities associated with this historic time of change in China. Designs are:


45c - Mao Zedong and Lin Biao on rostrum;
Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing.

60c - Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing at Yenan;
Mao Zedong and Lin Biao on rostrum.


$1.35 - Celebrating crowds with flags and a giant photo of Chairman Mao.

$3 - Red Guards struggle against bourgeoisie; Chairman Mao (1893 – 1976).

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a socio-political movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1971. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its goal was to preserve true Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist & traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the ideology within the Party.

The Revolution was launched in May 1966, after Mao explained that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society, aiming to restore capitalism. He insisted that these revisionists be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. Millions of people were criticised in the violent struggles that ensued across the country, and faced a wide range of actions including public humiliation, harassment, and seizure of property. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced, such as urban youth to rural regions. Historical relics and artifacts were destroyed. Cultural and religious sites were ransacked, and philately was outlawed.

Mao declared the Cultural Revolution over in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of military leader Lin Biao in 1971.




Kemp Land 2016 Chinese Cultural Revolution, miniature sheet.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 08 July 2020 at 00:24
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                                           Kemp Land 2020 Boy George comemmoration, in minisheet.

Kemp Land in 2015 had a revolution, where the despotic regime of Eric Gardo was overthrown in a gay uprising.

They established a new government and proclaimed the country THE GAY REPUBLIC OF KEMP LAND.

In 2020, they issued this attractive stamp, showing gay hero Boy George.


Originally posted by Wikipedia Wikipedia wrote:

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer. He is the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. At the height of the band's fame, during the 1980s, they recorded global hit songs such as "Karma Chameleon", "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Time (Clock of the Heart)". George is known for his soulful voice and his androgynous appearance. He was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. He was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992. His 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. More recently, he has released fewer music recordings, splitting his time between songwriting, DJing, writing books, designing clothes and photography. In 2015, Boy George received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Services to British Music.

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, George stated that he was actually gay, not bisexual, and that he had secret relationships with punk rock singer Kirk Brandon and Culture Club drummer, Jon Moss. He stated many of the songs he wrote for Culture Club were about his relationship with Moss.

In 2006, in an episodic documentary directed by Simon George titled The Madness of Boy George, George declared on camera he was "militantly gay". In a 2008 documentary Living with Boy George, he talks about his first realisation he was gay, and when he first told his parents. He discloses that he understands why men fall in love with one another as well as with women.


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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 13 July 2020 at 21:54
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Kemp Land 2020 Boy George comemmoration, in minisheet.


Kemp Land in 2015 had a revolution, where the despotic regime of Eric Gardo was overthrown in a gay uprising.

They established a new government and proclaimed the country THE GAY REPUBLIC OF KEMP LAND.

In 2020, they issued this attractive stamp, showing gay hero Boy George.


Originally posted by Wikipedia Wikipedia wrote:

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer. He is the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. At the height of the band's fame, during the 1980s, they recorded global hit songs such as "Karma Chameleon", "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Time (Clock of the Heart)". George is known for his soulful voice and his androgynous appearance. He was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. He was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992. His 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. More recently, he has released fewer music recordings, splitting his time between songwriting, DJing, writing books, designing clothes and photography. In 2015, Boy George received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Services to British Music.

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, George stated that he was actually gay, not bisexual, and that he had secret relationships with punk rock singer Kirk Brandon and Culture Club drummer, Jon Moss. He stated many of the songs he wrote for Culture Club were about his relationship with Moss.

In 2006, in an episodic documentary directed by Simon George titled The Madness of Boy George, George declared on camera he was "militantly gay". In a 2008 documentary Living with Boy George, he talks about his first realisation he was gay, and when he first told his parents. He discloses that he understands why men fall in love with one another as well as with women.


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I've had to post this a second time, as the previous photo seems to have mysteriously vanished.


Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 20 January 2023 at 04:33
Colourful flowers featured
on new stamps!


To foster civic pride, http://www.geocities.ws/kempland/" rel="nofollow - Kemp Land has announced a beautiful stamp issue to feature pansies.  This is the first new stamp issue of the year 2023.





Kemp Land 2023 Pansies.




Originally posted by  <font color='#0000FF'>http://www.geocities.ws/kempland/ rel=nofollow</font> - Kemp Land Post Office http://www.geocities.ws/kempland/ rel=nofollow - Kemp Land Post Office wrote:

The Kemp Land Post Office announces that a new set of stamps featuring beautiful pansies will be issued for regular mail use. Values are , 60¢, $1.35, and $3.

The stamps were designed by Inyotef D. Smauguar, and printed by the https://www.angelfire.com/art/okusi/kdpn1.htm" rel="nofollow - Occussi-Ambeno Government Printing Office in Baleksetung.  They are printed in full-colour on unwatermarked security paper and perf 12.  They have been printed in convenient small sheetlets containing two sets plus an extra pair of the five cent stamp, and have inscribed margins, including the first four lines of the https://doina-touchinghearts.blogspot.com/2019/03/pansies-by-terry-hoffman.html" rel="nofollow - happy pansy poem by https://doina-touchinghearts.blogspot.com/2019/03/pansies-by-terry-hoffman.html" rel="nofollow - Terry Hoffman .

Date of issue is 8th February 2023. A full set costs $5, while a complete sheet costs $10.10. The stamps will remain on sale indefinitely.

Collectors and others wishing to purchase stamps may contact

Kemp Land Information Service,
115-c Essex Street,
Epping, NSW 2121,
Australia.


The Kemp Land dollar is tied to the Australian.  Please add an allowance for return postage to your order.






PANSIES

by Terry Hoffman




Happiest flower in the garden
is the pansy, without doubt.
As it unfolds its petals,
it at times looks inside out.


Its varieties are endless,
all its colors bright and gay;
blue and gold and mauve and red,
it spreads along its merry way


As it reaches out to greet us,
with its happy smiling face,
it wishes us "Good Morning",
peeking out from ev'ry space.


See gladsome faces ev'ry where
In an infinite array;
orange, pink, yes, yellow, too,
I can't wait until this May.





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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 12 April 2023 at 05:54
One of the curses of the modern era is the proliferation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandfly" rel="nofollow - sandflies , also known as midges.  

To call attention to the campaign to exterminate this evil vampire, Kemp Land released a set of three commemorative stamps.




Kemp Land 2000 Anti-Sandfly Campaign,
plus the 45c overprinted later that year to celebrate the CHADPEX stamp exhibition.






Originally posted by Kemp Land Post Office Kemp Land Post Office wrote:

Kemp Land will issue an attractive set of three stamps on 5th June 2000 to call attention to the Anti-Sandfly Campaign, announced President Eric Gardo at his weekly press conference.

Each stamp shows a closeup view of the tiny vampire insect that is responsible for so much misery throughout the world. The sandfly, Phlebotomus, or Lutzomya, settles on an animal or human and begins to feed on the blood. In many ways, sandflies are even more lethal than the widely-abhorred mosquito, which was subject of a worldwide eradication campaign some years ago, in a bid to wipe out malaria. But the sandfly is responsible for spreading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishmaniasis" rel="nofollow - leishmaniases , a group of diseases caused by protozoan haemoflagelates. Leishmaniasis affects animals such as rodents and possums, as well as domestic animals such as dogs, and humans. The disease is especially widespread in tropical areas of the world, but also affects such regions as Kemp Land, South America, and North Africa.

Besides spreading disease, sandflies are also guilty of another crime. They make pleasant places unwelcoming for humans. A classic case is the small coastal town of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martins_Bay" rel="nofollow - Jamestown , on Martins Bay, in what is now New Zealand's https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/fiordland/" rel="nofollow - Fiordland National Park . In 1872, the perfect location was chosen for the town and port. It was surveyed and prepared for settlement. Land was sold. The settlers arrived, but found it to be so completely infested with the vile insect that they were driven to distraction every minute outdoors. The town was abandoned and never re-settled. Only a map reference marks its location. Today, Fiordland remains heavily infested with sandflies.



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Posted By: doormatt
Date Posted: 14 April 2023 at 01:25
Originally posted by Panterra Panterra wrote:

One of the curses of the modern era is the proliferation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandfly" rel="nofollow - sandflies , also known as midges. 


Surely, nothing like the modern era curse of a lengthy website address, particularly when shoehorned into onto a fantasy stamp?   




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