Bruce Ronald Henderson, also known as Bruce Grenville and Martin Renwick (born 1950), is a New Zealand
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...
, hoaxer and producer of
artistamp
An artistamp (a portmanteau of the words "artist" and "stamp") or artist's stamp is a postage stamp-like art form used to depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses. Artistamps are a form of Cinderella stamps in that they are not vali ...
s. He is particularly known for the creation of the fictional
Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno.
Early life
Bruce Henderson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1950.
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Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno
In the 1970s and 1980s he gained notoriety for a hoax involving the fabrication of the utopian Sultanate State of Occussi-Ambeno, located as an exclave
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is s ...
on the Island of Timor at Oecusse
Oecusse, also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (; ) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (), is an exclave, municipality (formerly a district) and the only Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Tim ...
, with himself as the self-proclaimed Sultan. Stamps were produced for the "Sultanate".["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.
''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
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...
'', discovered in a garage sale in Napier.["Only Chance to See Doctor Who Episode." ''The Press'' (Christchurch), 13 April 1999.]
Selected publications
*"Voyages to Imaginary Countries" in ''Artistamps Francobolli D'Artista'', James Warren Felter (Ed.), AAA Edizioni, Bertiolo, Italy, 2000.
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References
Further reading
Bruce Grenville and the Utopian State of Occussi-Ambeno
* Boraman, T. (2007
Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980s
Christchurch: Katipo Books and Irrecuperable Press.
1950 births
Living people
New Zealand philatelists
New Zealand anarchists
Pseudohistorians
21st-century anarchists
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