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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.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Overseas Mailer
Overseas Mailer reissued other first day covers with a modification. In the case of the Dante FDC, Overseas Mailer added a small, green, woodcut-style portrait of Dante to the Chickering-Jackson FDC. The Chickering-Jackson first day cover was…
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 - Hayden
This first day cover features a hand-painted, add-on cachet by Kathryn O. Hayden of Salt Lake City, Utah. The cachet shows a portrait of Dante wearing a laurel wreath and facing a small, black devil. The cachet was executed in pastels and the…
Maximum Card - United States - 1965 - Hammond
This maximum card was issued by Hammond Maxi-card and features a portrait and biography of Dante.
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 - Centennial
This first day cover was probably issued by Centennial. The poet's name is misspelled "Danti".
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Lone Star Cachet
This was the first FDC issue from Lone Star Cachet.
First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Maul
This first day cover's cachet was hand-painted by Herman R. Maul. The cachet shows a smiling devil's head above flames representing hell. The cachet has text as follows: at the top: "DANTE ALIGHIERI / ITALIAN POET / 1265 / 1965"; and at the bottom:…
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 - 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,…
