Hermes (Greek stamp) (Vienna emission) . All these issues have been overprinted in many cases up to 1920: Value, colour and type of the sixteen stamps of common usage set, printed in "taille douce" in 1911 : General Philately: General Philately - Literature: Large Hermes Head - Traditional Philately: Large Hermes Head - Postal History: Hermes (Greek stamp) The Greek god Hermes, messenger of the Gods in the Greek mythology, is the representation chosen, in 1860, by the Kingdom of Greece to illustrate its first postal stamps. The first type, the "large Hermes head", was issued in October 1861, and stayed in circulation
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