This first day cover's hand-painted cachet by Bernard Goldberg depicts Dante, crowned with a laurel wreath, against a purple and green background. Beside the cachet is calligraphic text as follows: "Dante / Alighieri / ~1265~1321~ / 'The Divine Comedy'". The cachet is signed "Goldberg" vertically along the right side. This cover was on the market as of June 2013.

]]> Universal Philatelic Cover Society cachet.]]> Each envelope is signed by the artist along the bottom edge.]]> Chickering-Jackson FDC. The Chickering-Jackson 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 designer. He designed first day cover cachets for Jackson from 1963 until his death in 1970.

Chickering's cachet features a reversed detail from Eugène Delacroix's first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell). Above this detail is a depiction of the storm of lustful sinners from Inferno 5. Text from the top of the cachet down reads: "Dante Alighieri / Poet · Philosopher / of the Middle / Ages"; "Dante and / Virgil in / Hell"; "Born in / Florence 1265"; and "First Day of Issue" beside which are the names Jackson and Chickering.]]> First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Chickering-Jackson]]> Mark Lerner, "Charles R. Chickering: Cachetmaker - Part I," First Days: Journal of the American First Day Cover Society 55, no. 5 (July 15, 2010): 10–20.]]> 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 insert on which is printed a brief biography of Dante, "THE CENTURY CLUB / UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE" at the bottom, and the address of Prestige Reaction on the back.

]]> 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 CENTENARIO / DELLA NASCITA" (Dante, 7th centenary of [his] birth). The cachet is printed on a small sheet of anodized aluminum which is affixed to the envelope. Clyde J. Sarzin developed this type of metal cachet and issued first day covers through Sarzin Metallics.]]> the cover issued by K. J. Moran. The cachet 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 / OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER / UNIVERSAL PHILATELIC COVER SOCIETY".]]> "Dante: Who Was He? What Did He Accomplish? How Many Cigar Label Images Portray Dante?," The Cigar-Label Gazette 31 (July-August 2000): 14–15.]]>