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   Sandy Island
For the delectation of cinderella collectors everywhere, here are some details on the stamps of Sandy Island, an ephemeral stamp-issuer thought to be in the Caribbean.  These are the brainchild of a veteran Italian philatelist.

Sandy Island 2016 Airmail and Philately issue.

 Sandy Island Post Office wrote:

The Sandy Island Post Office will issue a new series of stamps to celebrate the Air Mail Service, announced the Postmaster, Signor Fabio Vaccarezza, today.

The two stamps are in full colour, and designs are:

1½ Rupees … The plane crosses Sandy Island, and pilot.

2 Rupees …  Book pages form a heart, and the first Sandy
Island 5¢ stamp, with “I love Philately”.

Each stamp also shows Her Majesty the Queen of Sandy Island, and His Highness, the Royal Consort.

Date of issue is 7th August 2016.  The stamps were printed in full colour and perforated 12 gauge, by Chan Hui Shudian Printing SA, Minaue, Waikoa Island.

Sandy Island 2016 Christmas.

 Sandy Island Post Office wrote:

The Sandy Island Post Office will issue a new postage stamp featuring a classic Old Master painting for use on the Christmas mails, announced the Postmaster, Signor Fabio Vaccarezza, today.

The stamp features the painting Alba Madonna, by Raphael, and is valued at 5 cents. 

Date of issue is 5th December 2016.  The stamps have been printed in full colour and perforated 12 gauge, by Chan Hui Shudian Printing SA, Minaue. The stamps are available in small sheets comprising twenty stamps, at $1 per sheet. 

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 – 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. 

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking.

After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504 – 1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

Sandy Island 2017 Lighthouse and Frog issue.

 Sandy Island Post Office wrote:

The Sandy Island Post Office will issue a new series of stamps showing Sombrero Island lighthouse, and a tree frog, announced the Postmaster, Signor Fabio Vaccarezza, today.

The stamps are in realistic colour; value of each is 2 cents. 

Date of issue is 8th June 2017.  The stamps have been printed in full colour and perforated 12 gauge, by Chan Hui Shudian Printing SA, Minaue, Waikoa Island.

Collectors and others requiring stamps may order from 
Signor Fabio Vaccarezza, 
Via Monte Suello 1, Milano 20133, Italy.

Stamps on cover, and registered covers, can also be supplied to collectors on request. Please add an allowance for return postage to your payment. Exchanges welcome.
Correspondence welcome in Italiano or English.
Accogliamo la corrispondenza in Italiano o Inglese.