The Blessed Father: Certificate, Hell Card & Artistamps

Just ever so often Mail Art takes me by storm and something arrives that turns out to be rather useful.  You might have seen this already on TV.  This is no glue and paste card.  It's professionally made, and there is no joking about it.  This is the real McCoy.When I received the banana guard from Heleen de Vann I thought nothing could top it for usefulness Mail Art.Well I have been surprised again.  And here it is, My very own certificate of "Remission of sin".  This isn't any ordinary certificate of "Remission of sin".   This one is for past and all future sins.  Basically it's like being in a candy store when the shop keeper has gone across the street to get change from the baker. ( I always go into the candy store with $100 bills.)And if that isn't enough, the certificate also arrived with these (signed) Artistamps.  You may of heard about Santa Lucrezia di Merida, but this isn't it.  Galeazzo Ciano wrote and left behind a diary.  So I guess this is proof that he said this famous phrase before J.F. Kennedy.  Very clever those Kennedy advisors.And staying with the same theme of thousand.  Banzai meaning ten thousand years or long life, depending who you get to translate it, is a signed and well welcomed wish.  But NO, Banzai is a cocktail invented in Paris.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXA76-Lq0E   Yes, I'm starting to remember it again.  Very clever man that Blessed Father!The detachable "Get Out of Hell Free" card I keep in my billfold and carry it around with me.  I actually stapled it to my donor card just in case there is confusion. 

Thank you Rick aka The Blessed Father, you have enhanced my life, and it will never be the same.

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Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on January 13, 2016 at 10:03am

Rick, Just google the "Victory" phrase and you will see.  Oh yes, the check is in the mail.

I put the "Get Out of Hell Free" card on ebay here in France, but no hits yet. 

But you know what they say; "There's one born every minute".  Actually another Kennedy quote, but this one is from his father just after the 1929 Wall Street Crash where he vastly increased his financial fortune.

PS: If I prove that there's actually no hell below us, do I get a refund?  Or no heaven, Above us only sky.  Imagine that !

Comment by The Blessed Father on January 11, 2016 at 9:53pm

I didn't know that Kennedy ripped off Ciano.  BF

Comment by The Blessed Father on January 11, 2016 at 7:13pm
Dean. . . . don't forget the $20. for for processing and handling. BF aka Rick
Comment by FinnBadger on January 10, 2016 at 5:39pm

Incredible stuff. Love the artistamps!

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