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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 - Prestige
This first day cover was issued by Prestige of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The cachet is a black and white halftone image in reverse of Douglas W. Gorsline's design for the United States Dante commemorative stamp of 1965.
The envelope holds a folded…
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 - Ulrich
The cachets on these covers were hand-painted by Frank J. Ulrich. Multiple designs by Ulrich are known.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Universal Philatelic Cover Society
This first day cover, issued by the Universal Philatelic Cover Society, is identical—except for the text at the bottom—to the cover issued by K. J. Moran. The cachet features a right-facing portrait of Dante with text as follows: at the top:…
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 - 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.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Unknown Designer
This first day cover's hand-painted cachet features a portrait of Dante wearing a laurel wreath. The cachet is signed "SN".
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Unknown Designer
This first day cover's cachet is a later (before August 23, 2013) add-on, printed with an inkjet printer. The image reproduces Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. Above the…
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 - 1980 - Postal Commemorative Society
In 1978, the Postal Commemorative Society of Norwalk, Connecticut, commenced issuing a series of first day covers to be collected in an album titled Norman Rockwell Classics and Historic American Stamps. On the album's title page is the following…
First Day Cover - United States - 1982 - Ranto
Beginning in the 1960s, prolific collector and cachet maker John Ranto of Hamilton Township, New Jersey, produced first day covers made from postal bulletins and display posters. According to online sales descriptions by Trenton Stamp and Coin,…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - ALA
This first day cover was issued by ALA (no. 70). The cachet shows the portrait of Dante in Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. This is overprinted with Sandro Botticelli's illustration of Dante…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Capitolium
These first day covers were issued by Capitolium (nos. V. 46 and V. 46/a).The cachet for no. V. 46 shows Dante and Beatrice in heaven. In the upper right corner is "1265 / 1965" and at the bottom is the following text: "VII CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA /…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Filagrano
This first day cover was issued by Filagrano. The cachet shows a full-length portrait of Dante holding a book on which is written the text of Paradiso 1:1–2: "La gloria di colui che tutto muove / per l'universo penetra e risplende" (The glory of Him…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - KimCover
These first day covers were issued by KimCover (nos. 13 and 39/A). Both covers use the same cachet, a version of Sandro Botticelli's illustration of Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of Mercury from Paradiso 6 found in a manuscript volume in the…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Re.Ru.
These first day covers were issued by Re.Ru. The cachets feature Giotto's portrait of Dante, reversed from the original, surrounded by a decorative frame. Below the portrait is "DANTE ALIGHIERI / 1265 - 1321".
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Rodia
These first day covers were issued by Rodia. One cachet features Sandro Botticelli's illustration of Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of the moon from Paradiso 3 found in a manuscript volume in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin known as MS Hamilton…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Roma
This first day cover was issued by Roma (Vat. 49). 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. The cachet is signed "D. NIZZI" in the area of…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Stampa Filatelica
This first day cover likely was issued by Stampa Filatelica. The cachet features a reproduction of an anonymous miniature portrait of Dante from a fifteenth-century manuscript (MS Riccardiano 1040) in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. Above the…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Tre Stelle
This first day cover was issued by Tre Stelle. 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. Below the portrait is text as follows: "RAFFAELLO.…
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - Venetia
These first day covers were issued by Venetia (nos. 87-1/V and 87-2/V).The cachet on 87-1/V features a modern interpretation of Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican…
Maximum Card - Argentina - 1965 - Círculo Filatélico de Liniers
This maximum card was issued by the philatelic group Círculo Filatélico de Liniers and postmarked in Buenos Aires on September 16, 1965. The card features Gustave Doré's portrait of Dante. Below the portrait is a detail from Doré's illustration…
Maximum Card - Argentina - 1965 - Lupita
This maximum card was issued by Lupita and postmarked in Buenos Aires on September 16, 1965. The cachet features a black and white left-facing portrait of Dante, a quill pen, and three books with titles in Spanish: "LA / DIVINA COMEDIA" (Divine…
Maximum Card - Italy - 1965 - Circolo filatelico fiorentino (Florence, Italy)
This maximum card was issued by the philatelic group Circolo filatelico fiorentino and postmarked in Florence on October 21, 1965. The card features a portrait of Dante signed "G.P.". Above the portrait is "1265" and "1965" and below is "VIIo…
Maximum Card - Russia / Soviet Union - 1965 - Giusti di S. Becocci
This maximum card features Giotto's portrait of Dante and the 1965 Russia postage stamp commemorating the 700th anniversary of the poet's birth. The card was issued by Giusti di S. Becocci of Florence.