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First Day Cover - Mexico - 1965 - Unknown Designer
The cachet on this first day cover features a line-drawing portrait of Dante and text as follows: "DANTE ALIGHIERI / VII CENTENARIO DE SU / NACIMIENTO" (Dante Alighieri, 7th centenary of his birth) and "PRIMER DIA DE EMISION." (first day of issue).…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 1966 - Fédération des organisations sociales des Postes telégrammes et télécommunications des Alpes-Maritimes
These first day covers were issued for the Fédération des organisations sociales des Postes telégrammes et télécommunications des Alpes-Maritimes. The issuer is not indicated but the cachets match the design of the Philatélie Péchitch FDCs issued for…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 1966 - Gustave Doré and Unknown Designer
The issuer of these first day covers is not indicated but they bear a logo featuring a rooster. The covers are numbered 139 and 140. The cachet for no. 139 is by an unidentified artist and depicts a scene from the beginning of the Inferno in which…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 1966 - P.A.C.
This first day cover was issued by P.A.C. The cachet features a portrait of Dante based on Giotto's portrait of the poet over a medieval style letter "D". Above the image is "FIRST DAY COVER - PREMIER JOUR D'ÉMISSION" and below is "DANTE – VIIe…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 1966 - Philatélie Péchitch
These first day covers were issued by Philatélie Péchitch. The cachets are drawn after the designs on the stamps and have text as follows: at the top: "MONACO"; and at the bottom: "VIIe CENTENAIRE DE LA NAISSANCE / DE DANTE ALIGHIERI" (7th centenary…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 1966 - R. Géndt and Unknown Designer
The issuer of these first day covers is not indicated but the cachets are all of similar design and the phrases on each FDC are the same and set in the same fonts.One cachet is signed "R. GÉNDT" in the lower right corner and depicts a montage of the…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 2009 - Office des Émissions de Timbres-Poste
These three first day covers were issued by the Monaco Office des Émissions de Timbres-Poste to accompany the three postage stamps issued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of a branch of the Società Dante Alighieri in the…
First Day Cover - Monaco - 2015 - Office des Timbres
This first day cover was issued by the Monaco Office des Timbres to accompany the postage stamp issued to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth. The simple cachet features an outline drawing of the Prince's Palace of Monaco and "2015" in…
First Day Cover - Paraguay - Centro Filatélico del Paraguay
The cachet on this first day cover, issued by the Centro Filatélico del Paraguay, repeats the portraits of four famous authors from the stamps it was designed to bear.
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965
The cachets on these first day covers issued by Rodia feature "The Eagle," Gustave Doré's illustration for Purgatorio 9:29–30 also found on the 130-lire San Marino Dante postage stamp of 1965. The text below the illustrations is as follows: "Dante…
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965 - ALA
These first day covers were issued by ALA (nos. 109 and 110). The cachets show Gustave Doré's illustration from Inferno 3:82–84, "Charon and the River Acheron," with the artist's portrait of Dante printed over part of the illustration. Below the…
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965 - Capitolium
These first day covers were issued by Capitolium (nos. 49 and V. 46/a).The cachet for no. 49 shows a montage of the four illustrations by Gustave Doré used on the San Marino Dante stamps of 1965. The illustrations are as follows: portrait of Dante;…
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965 - F.A.I.P.
These first day covers were issued by F.A.I.P. (no. 127). The cachets repeat images found on the San Marino Dante stamps of 1965, themselves reproductions of illustrations by Gustave Doré. One cachet features Doré's portrait of Dante and the other…
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965 - Venetia
These first day covers were issued by Venetia (nos. 90-1/SM and 90-2/SM).The cachet on 90-1/SM features a portrait of Charon from Gustave Doré's illustration "Charon and the River Acheron" from Inferno 3:82–84 with text as follows: at the top: "PRIMO…
First Day Cover - San Marino - 1965 - Volpini
These first day covers have the same cachet created by Renato Volpini featuring a portrait of Dante within a frame. Below the portrait is a banner with the following text from Purgatorio 1:71: "LIBERTÀ VA / CERCANDO / CH'E SÌ CARA ...." (He is…
First Day Cover - Sovereign Military Order of Malta - 2014 - Poste Magistrali
Poste Magistrali, the postal arm of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a sovereign, Roman Catholic order of chivalry. The cachet is simply the order's logo with text as follows: "Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di…
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 - Centennial
This first day cover was probably issued by Centennial. The poet's name is misspelled "Danti".
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 - 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…