Bruce Ronald Henderson

Bruce Ronald Henderson, also known as Bruce Grenville and Martin Renwick, (born 1950, New Zealand),[1] is a New Zealand anarchist, film buff and producer of artistamps.

Sultanate of Oecussi-Ambeno

In the 1970s and 1980s he gained notoriety for a hoax involving the fabrication of the Utopian Sultanate State of Oecussi-Ambeno, located as an exclave on the Island of Timor, with himself as the self-proclaimed Sultan.

Other fabrications

Grenville's artistamp output encompasses an entire alternative universe of artistamp countries. These include the Kingdom of all the Sedang (not to be confused with the historic Kingdom of Sedang), the Sultanate of Upper Yafa, the People's Republic of Kempland, the Free Vinland Republic, the Republic of Liegerland, the Republic of Port Maria, Tui Tui, Aldabra, Karenni, Raoul, the Land of Muggy, Cryonica, Aramoana, Whangamomona, Lar?, Nova Arcadia, the Antarctic Confederation and the Khanate of Bokhara. Grenville's artistamp world even has its own imaginary "United Nations," the "International Council of Independent States" (ICIS). His creations are sometimes identified as micronations; however, being completely fictitious and without "participants", they do not fit the definition.

Doctor Who

In January 1999, he came to notice for the discovery of a long missing 1965 original episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who, discovered in a garage sale in Napier; the episode, "The Lion" (the first part of the serial The Crusade) was subsequently released on VHS and later DVD.

Selected publications

References and sources

References
  1. ↑ "Long Live The Sultan! The World and Stamps of Bruce R. Henderson" by Geir Sør-Reime, The Cinderella Philatelist, Vol. 56, No. 1, (Whole No. 221), January 2016, pp. 10-22, & Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 58-64.
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