Hermes (Greek stamp) following June 10, announced the choice of Hermes, messenger of the Gods in the Greek mythology as the effigy of the stamps. The stamps depict a profile of the Greek messenger god Hermes (Mercury) in a frame strongly resembling that used for contemporary stamps of France. The nine values of the stamps of the "large Hermes head" are printed during more than twenty years (from 1861 to 1882) from the same nine typographic plates and stayed in circulation for 25 years (from 1861 to 1886) before to be used again, overprinted, in 1900/1901. The first set was issued on October
The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger was an early 20th-century political and literary magazine by and for African-American people in the United States. It was important to the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and initially promoted a socialist political view. "The Messenger" was co-founded in New York City by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in August 1917. After 1920, "The Messenger" featured more articles about black culture and began to publish rising black writers. It became a kind of literary magazine (like "The Little Review", the revived "The Dial", and "The Liberator"), contributing to the Harlem Renaissance. It was notable