Morris W. Beck US Navy Covers
 First cover in the 1000 Navy Series. 1962 |
 Special "S" cover USS Enterprise |
 USS Hornet-Neil Armstrong-Lunar Landing |
 USS New Orleans Recovery for Skylab |
 Apollo Soyuz on Popular Air Mail Envelope |
 Last cover in Navy Series USS Vinson. 1975 |
Reference Catalog
and Checklist for Collectors
Compiled and Managed by
Owen R. Murray,
A member of the USCS #5676, and ATA Space Unit #4500
This Web site has over 2,000 scans of Beck Navy
and Event Covers with Reference
Text.
Please note that the naval covers illustrated on this Web site are for
reference only.
This is a private Web site for the enjoyment of collectors of navy covers.
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1-50
51-99
S,100-150
151-200
201-250
251-299
300-350
351-402
403-455
456-514
515-569
570-621
622-687
688-769
770-841
842-899
900-951
952-1000
REVISED> MW
Beck Space Cachet Designs
#6 USS Dace Overprint
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#220 USS Lowry
Beck 929 Hawkins
GTA-8 USS Boxer
Cover Varieties and Oddities
Beck's Messages
1943-1970's Events
Nuclear Ships
Foreign
President Series
States Series
First Day Covers
Articles:
NEW Apollo PRS Postmarked in Hawaii
NEW ASTP USS New Orleans
July 25, 1975 onboard Cover
NEW Beck Printing Log for Numbered Series
REVISED OCT 07
Updated Checklist October 22, 2007
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Naval Cover Museum
The Naval Cover Museum was established
in 2000 and is a non-profit organization
devoted to Naval Cover and Naval Postal History.
It is a virtual museum on the Internet with scans and information for
collectors.
Contact David Kent (navypmks-AT-aol-dot-com)for more information.
New Items and Information
February 2008, New Unlisted Beck
(B317) covers
found by Paul Huber of Fairwinds.
Fairwinds-Post Cards and Ship Covers
Contact Fairwinds with your want list.
Paul and Becky Huber,
(email for show schedule).
Phone: 541-444-2230, Email:
Fairwinds
Other Interesting Covers Below
Scan courtesy of David Ball see B841 Here
Scans courtesy of Dan Duffy. Examples of the "VIP label" seen on many
CREW covers sent to VIPs during the space program.
Click HERE (B784) and
HERE (B733) to see more information. Added July 2007
Unique and unofficial FDC Click HERE Sold on eBay
April 2007.
B874 Missing Black Color.
Also see Here
Scan of error cover,
courtesy of Dr. Ross J. Smith
Above: Apollo 11 B807 CREW USS New
Scan courtesy of Stewart B Milstein
We need your help.
If you have a Beck cover that is not shown on this reference Web site,
please send us a scan. We appreciate your help.
NEW
Scans of Mr. Beck's
original printing log
of the 1000 Cover Series is now available.
Click Here to View the Log
Sampling of Some Recent Additions:
Moon
Beck 751
Rare B707 Brown/Gold B525
Unofficial FDC
Early Prototype 1947
1963 Chng/Command Unusual Beck ID
July 4 1962 1946 Destroyer Reverse
1944 addressed to Beck/reverse
USS New Orleans
USS Spokane Brown Envelope CREW
Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong CREW KSC AP 14
CREW Apollo 11
Rare Day After
Apollo 11 CREW Cachet on Back
CREW
CREW Beck Handmade
1946
B581 CREW B332
Oddity 1946 Frank Knox GT-8 Boxer CREW
GT-8 Boxer CREW GT-11-GT-12 Date Foreign Covers
USS Wisconsin 46 USS Columbus
46 Early Beck 1944 GT-12 CREW
Apollo 16 CREW GT-3 CREW
GT-4 CREW
GT-9 Cancel Variety GTA-6 CREW
Also see Owen's
Photography Website for a monthly computer desktop calendar.
Owen's original
photography is used on a new calendar each month since 2000.
Morris W. Beck Naval Covers for Collectors
Naval covers have been popular since about 1910. A naval cover is an envelope or postcards postmarked on board a naval ship. The cover might commemorate a naval event such as a keel laying, launching or commissioning of a navy ship. Other covers are simply sailor’s mail that now has historical value for the postmark on the US Navy cover.
Collecting memorabilia from US Navy ships is a very interesting hobby and shares a piece of US Navy history. Some people collect pictures, ash trays, lighters, photos, launching or commissioning programs, US Navy patches, and envelopes or postcards postmarked aboard US Navy ships. Similar in appearance to a first day cover, a naval cover commemorates a US Navy event or simply be sailor’s mail sent home with a letter enclosed. In any case, these covers are very collectable.
Today, the Universal Ship Cancellation Society, USCS, in an international society where collectors of US Navy ship covers and postcards exchange information about their favorite collecting interests. See the link to the USCS. If you are not a member of the USCS, please consider joining.
Many collectors specialize in a special type of naval covers or envelopes. Some US Navy veterans have a special interest in the ships they served on. Ships like destroyers, aircraft carriers, submarines, battleship, etc. Some collectors of first day covers or FDCs also collect navy covers as a specialty.
The US NASA manned space program and the US Navy recovery ships are also very popular subjects for naval covers. The US Navy postmarks from the US Navy ships in the Atlantic or Pacific fleet that picked up the US space astronauts like John Glenn, Neil Armstrong or others are very popular. One of the most desirable modern naval covers is from the USS Hornet that picked up the astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins after the Moon landing Apollo 11 NASA mission. Dozens of US Navy ships participated in the US Space recovery program including, USS Hornet, USS Wasp, USS Intrepid, USS Lake Champlain, USS Guam, USS Mason, USS Randolph, USS Ticonderoga, USS Iwo Jima, USS Kearsarge, USS Okinawa, USS Essex, USS New Orleans, USS Guadalcanal, USS Bennington, and many others. All astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab programs were recovered by US Navy ships. There are covers for most of these events. The covers for the earliest manned space flights are among the hardest to find. Some of the most popular covers are for aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, battleships, and other types of US Navy ships.
Over the years there have been many individuals and groups produce some very attractive naval covers for US Navy events and space events including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab manned space flights. Morris W. Beck was a collector of US Navy covers and started a service to provide other collectors with quality printed US Navy, space covers, and first day covers.
Beck served in the US Navy during World War II aboard a US Navy Destroyer. Morris W. Beck covers are well known among collectors. Beck produced a very popular series of 1000 US Navy event covers 1962-1975. Beck’s effort was a labor of love and his charge to service covers for collectors was only pennies per cover. This web site is dedicated to the US Navy event covers, president series, state series, nuclear ships and first day covers (FDC) produced by Morris W. Beck.
