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First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - KJM
This first day cover was issued by KJM (K. J. Moran) and features a right-facing portrait of Dante with text as follows: at the top: "HONORING"; and at the bottom "ALIGHIERI DANTE / 700th ANNIVERSARY / OF BIRTH / FIRST DAY OF ISSUE / KJM". Except for…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Chickering-Jackson
This first day cover was designed by Charles R. Chickering and issued by Gladys Jackson's Jackson Cover Service (New York, New York). Chickering retired from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 1962 after a fifteen-year career there as a stamp…
First Day Cover - Argentina - 1965 - Círculo Filatélico de Liniers
This first day cover was issued by the philatelic group Círculo Filatélico de Liniers and postmarked in Rosario, Santa Fe, on September 16, 1965. The cachet features Gustave Doré's portrait of Dante. Below the portrait is a detail from Doré's…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Anderson
This first day cover was designed by C. Stephen Anderson. The cachet features a woodcut-style portrait of Dante above a brief biography of the poet. The text of the biography is as follows:Born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, Dante Aligheri was perhaps…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Aristocrats
This first day cover was designed by Day Lowry for The Aristocrats. The cachet features a portrait of Dante above a brief biography of the poet, the text of which is as follows:Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, born in Florence, May 21, 1265. The world…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - ArtCraft
This first day cover features Andrea del Castagno's portrait of Dante.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Cachet Craft
This Cachet Craft cover designed by Ken Boll features a profile portrait of Dante ("Mask of Dante") printed in black surrounded by flames printed in red.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Cover Craft Cachets
This first day cover was designed by George Boltrek and issued by Cover Craft Cachets of Paterson, New Jersey. It was the "Official Cover" of the Italian Historical Society of America.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Von Ohlen
This first day cover was designed by William Von Ohlen. The all-text cachet gives a very brief biography of Dante as follows:Dante was born in Florence, Italy. His parents died when he was young and Brunetti Latine, a statesman, supervised his…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Dyer
This first day cover's hand-painted cachet by Ralph Dyer depicts Dante, crowned with a laurel wreath, against a background of flames holding a book on which are written the words "Poet", "Soldier", "Writer", and "EXILE". Below the portrait is a…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Fluegel Covers
This first day cover was designed by Paul L. Hubartt for Fluegel Covers.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Keepsake Press
This first day cover may have been issued by the Keepsake Press of Chicago.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Kolor Kover
Kolor Kover first day covers are distinguished by the colored paper used for the envelopes. The red cachet on this yellow envelope shows a portrait of Dante in profile within an ornamental frame.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Kraft
The cachets on these first day covers were hand painted by Ben Kraft. One cachet depicts Dante against a red background next to the phrases "HE GLORIFIED HELL!" and "DANTE 1265–1321". Another depicts Dante against a yellow background facing the devil…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Marg
So-called "Marg" cachets were created by Edmund J. Shea for Shea Advertising.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Powell
These first day covers feature hand-painted, add-on cachets by L. Ziola Powell. One cachet depicts a portrait of Dante partly covered by an angel with trumpet above and flames below. The other cachet depicts a portrait of Dante with laurel wreath…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Press Cover Club
The cachet on this first day cover issued by Press Cover Club was printed in black and then colored by hand with pink, orange, and blue highlights.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Reid
This first day cover was issued by Clarence E. Reid and features a textual cachet naming Douglas Gorsline, the designer of the United States Dante postage stamp of 1965. The "No. 2717" next to Reid's name was his membership number for the American…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Sarzin Metallics
This first day cover's cachet features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City (reversed from the original). Below the portrait is text as follows: "Dante / VII…
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Smith
The textual cachet on this envelope addressed to Wilbur K. Smith of York, Pennsylvania, may have been printed by Smith himself. The vertically-oriented text ("Dante Alighieri / 700th ANNIVERSARY") is letterpress printed in reddish-gray and maroon.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Unknown Designer
This first day cover's cachet is a later (before July 12, 2010) add-on printed with an inkjet printer.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Challand
The typed cachet on this first day cover addressed to Linda Challand may have been created by Challand herself.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Unknown Designer
This first day cover's cachet is a later (before May 7, 2010) add-on, printed with an inkjet printer. The image is a detail from a famous cigar label from around 1900.