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The Kingdom Of Intersol Stamps

 
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Posted 09/22/2017   5:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add James Drummond to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Shown below are images of the four different Kingdom of Intersol stamps, along with some information about them.

Does anyone have any other varieties from this made-up country?

I think that these four were the only types made, but I'm not sure.

Jim




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Posted 09/22/2017   6:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I would not be surprised if Rod has a whole set of pages devoted to this "country".
( Rod, this is meant as a compliment! )

Peter
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Posted 09/22/2017   6:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Any help?

From my query 2004
Author : Mr. Blair Stannard Canada.

Links probably dead.

I later found this information on the net.
INTERSOL, KINGDOM OF: (1968)
These stamps were created to advertise the book "Musrum."
http:// (Offsite URL shortening not allowed) /52f9d


Review by David Langford

"Musrum" by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw (1968)

"There was little excuse for the invention of the name MUSRUM. It was
already known in sixteen principalities and native states."

Thacker's and Earnshaw's quirky, surreal, and very English fantasy
introduces trickster hero Musrum with a barrage of gnomic aphorisms.
"A torpedoed cathedral sinks rapidly into the earth." Likewise,
"Sudden prayers make God jump." Bizarre lists abound.

A godlike eccentric, Musrum constructs his refuge (which is also the
world) downward from the Attic, floor by floor to the Cellar. Musroid
symbology is extensive and peculiar; the Giant Mushroom, heart of our
man's power, is fatally coveted by the evil Weedking. The resulting
pursuit leads to Russia, a plethora of wolves, a Musrum doppelganger
called Palfreyman, and the Second Crimean War.

Besides its elegant, witty prose, Musrum is a graphic novel profusely
illustrated by both authors, with many Escherian quirks. Musrum's iron
castle has two linked sections, the Side Elevation and the Ground
Plan. Vital strategies depend on a map revealing the Volga river to be
circular. Skulls and crossbones recur. There are exhaustive
diagrammatic inventories of war banners, final victory celebrations,
and dressing tables (57 varieties).

Sample campaign tactic: "Exploiting the concept of gravity, Musrum
designed and constructed a perpetual motion machine which was simply a
four-wheeled bogie. He placed this casual device on a hill that sloped
down forever."

This book's weird, one-off inventiveness made it impossible -- after
Musrum's triumphant return to his kingdom of Intersol -- for there to
be a sequel. The 1971 sequel is equally deranged, drastically reworks
the story of that very bad man Father Christmas, and is called
Wintersol.


I wonder if there are any Wintersol stamps?

Blair
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I would not be surprised if Rod has a whole set of pages devoted to this "country".


Compliment accepted Peter.

Only images I have......


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Nice post! Haven't seen these before. It looks as though the labels went through several printings...but reds and oranges really do scan differently.

Love the fake woodgrain book cover material. I thought the fake woodgrain craze of that era was limited to the U.S.A., but apparently not.
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