Occusi-Ambeno

Occusi-Ambeno is an art project of New Zealand artist, Bruce Grenville. While there is an actual Occusi Ambeno province of East Timor, his intent was not to defraud collectors but to provide an exotic backdrop for his creations with its own fictional history as a sultanate. The stamps often parody the excesses of countries commemorating every event possible.  File:Occ Amb QEII.jpg|1978 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Anniversary surcharge. File:Occ Amb Theresa.jpg|1986 $3 singer Teresa Teng. File:Occ Amb birds.jpg|2018 15c 50th anniversary stamp. 
 * Its first issue was in 1968.
 * In the 1970s and 1980s, Grenville hoaxed news providers by posing as a real country.
 * Grenville even self-published a catalog of Occusi-Ambeno stamps in 1975.
 * His fantasy issues continue today along with the invention of other imaginary countries.

See

 * website of the fictional Occusi-Ambeno]

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