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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 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) - 1965 - Deutsche Post
This first day cover was issued by Deutsche Post, the postal service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The cachet consists of an embossed, double-line oval surrounding the embossed text "Deutsche / Post". A post horn is printed in…
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - E-B-Verlag Erich Braun
This first day cover was issued by E-B-Verlag Erich Braun of Berlin, Germany. The cachet features a portrait of Dante above an open book on the pages of which is the following text: on the left: "DIVINA / COMMEDIA"; and on the right: "DIE / GÖTTLICHE…
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Fidacos
These first day covers were issued by Fidacos. One cachet features an embossed portrait of Dante and the other features a portrait of Dante printed in gold.
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Folio-Print
The cachet on this first day cover reproduces a detail from Eugène Delacroix's first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in German as Dante und Vergil in der Unterwelt and in English as Dante and Virgil in Hell or The Barque of Dante).…
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - GH
This first day cover was issued by GH.
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Hakles
This first day cover was issued by Hakles and features Dante's tomb in Ravenna, Italy.
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Unknown Designer
The cachet on this first day cover features a right-facing portrait of Dante imposed over an open book with the title of the poet's magnum opus in German and Italian: "Die Göttliche Komödie (DIVINA COMMEDIA)".On the envelopes flap is the following…
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Unknown Designer
The cachet on this first day cover features a woodcut-style portrait of Dante printed in yellow. Above the portrait is "Ersttagsbrief" (first day cover) and below is "Dante Alighieri".
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Unknown Designer
The cachet on this first day cover features a portrait of Dante printed in green. Above the portrait is "ERSTTAGSBRIEF · FIRST DAY COVER" and below is "DANTE / ALIGHIERI / 1265-1321".
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Ansaldo Dopolavoro Aziendale, Sezione Filatelica
This first day cover was issued by the Ansaldo Dopolavoro Aziendale, Sezione Filatelica (Ansaldo Company Recreation Club, Philatelic Section). The cachet shows Dante reading a book; in the background is an unrolled scroll with text as follows: "7o…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Bucintoro
This first day cover was issued by Bucintoro (no. 5-65). The cachet features a portrait of Dante in a modern style with text as follows: vertically, through the portrait: "DANTE ALIGHIERI"; and at the bottom: "PRIMO GIORNO DI EMISSIONE" (first day of…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Capitolium
These first day covers were issued by Capitolium (no. 81) in blue and purple. The cachets are reminiscent of Sandro Botticelli's illustrations for Inferno 19 showing the souls of simonists in the third bolgia (ditch) of the eighth circle of hell,…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. One cachet features Gustave Doré's illustration for Paradiso 14:103-105, "The Cross." Surrounding the cachet is text as follows: vertically, on the left: "first day cover"; at the top: "REPUBBLICA…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Roma
This first day cover was issued by Roma (It. 93-a). The cachet features a portrait of Dante based on the portrait in Raphael's fresco painting The Parnassus. Below the portrait is text as follows: "Dante / VII Centenario della nascita" (7th centenary…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Siligato
This first day cover was issued by Siligato. The cachet features Raphael's portrait of Dante (reversed from the original) from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The portrait is framed by a…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Sole
This first day cover was issued by Sole (7). The cachet, signed "Berá", shows Dante looking at Ulysses (Odysseus) and Diomedes in flames, a scene from Inferno 26. Below the image is a quotation from Inferno 26:118–120: "Considerate la vostra semenza:…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Tre Stelle
This first day cover was issued by Tre Stelle. The cachet shows a colorized reproduction of the first page of Inferno from the Divina commedia printed in 1487 in Brescia by Bonino de Boninis. Below the image is text as follows: "Dante Alighieri / nel…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Universal Editrice
The cachet on this first day cover features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Above the portrait is text as follows: "VIII CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA DI DANTE…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Venetia
These first day covers were issued by Venetia (nos. 223/It. and 223-2/It.).The cachet on 223/It. features a portrait of Dante in a modern style with text as follows: vertically, on the left: "DANTE ALIGHIERI"; and at the top: "PRIMO GIORNO DI…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. The "Gold" series cachet is printed on a small sheet of rayon that is affixed to the envelope within a printed blue-green frame with "ITALIA" at the top. On the cachet itself is text as follows: "Vo…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Grolla Club
Grolla Club no. 179
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Uncacheted
This uncacheted first day cover was postmarked in Foligno on November 23, 1972. It was owned by Floriano Ornaghi, the Italian philatelist and expert in mechanical cancellations, whose name appears stamped in blue ink.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Venetia
This first day cover was issued by Venetia (333/It.). The cachet features a portrait of Dante in a modern style, executed in green with text in blue: over the portrait: "DIVI / NACO / MME / DIA."; and above the portrait: "primo giorno di emissione"…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1987 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. The "Gold" series cachet is printed on a small sheet of rayon that is affixed to the envelope within a printed gold frame with "Piazza dei Signori / Verona" at the top. The cachet shows a photographic…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1987 - Venetia
This first day cover was issued by Venetia (641-2/It). The cachet features a modern representation of part of Piazza dei Signori executed in red and brown with "PIAZZA / DEI SIGNORI" at the bottom.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1990 - ALA
This first day cover was issued by ALA (no. 806) and features Gustave Doré's portrait of Dante with a red overprint of a book titled "DIVINA / COMMEDIA" and a smoldering oil lamp. Below the portrait is "CENTENARIO SOCIETÀ / DANTE ALIGHIERI" (Dante…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1990 - Capitolium
This first day cover was issued by Capitolium (no. 683). The cachet features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Surrounding the portrait is text as follows:…