Oecussi-Ambeno is a coastal exclave in the western
part of the island of Timor, separated from the rest of East Timor by West
Timor, which is part of Indonesia, and which surrounds Oecusse in all
directions except the north, where it borders the Savu Sea. The capital of the
district is Pante Macassar, also called Oecussi Town, or formerly, in
Portuguese Timor, Vila Taveiro.
In the 1970s and 1980s, New Zealander anarchist Bruce
Grenville began a hoax, claiming to have founded the sultanate of
Occussi-Ambeno. He invented a history for the state of tribes united against
the Portuguese, and produced many cinderella stamps for his creation.
In philately, a cinderella stamp is "virtually
anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a
government postal administration..."
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