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Morris W. Beck First Day
Covers
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Beck FDCs
Morris W. Beck produced
First Day Covers (FDC) for many new stamps.
He produced self service
envelopes and
provided the service for collectors.
SOME examples
are shown below. (This page does not illustrate all his FDCs)
His first FDC was for the 3c Baltimore and Ohio RR stamp of February 28,
1952
Beck's first FDC
Mr. Beck produced FDCs under several brand
names such as "Tri Color", "mb" "Beck", "M W Beck", "B", etc.
Sold for $38.50 on eBay April 2022
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Unusual postmark on this one
Scan courtesy of Jeff Mills
Scan courtesy of Jeff Mills
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Added 2019-Also see Beck #412
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Scans courtesy of Larry Johnson
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Beck FDC for 1967 JFK, Scott #1287
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Above: scan courtesy of Richard Hoffner.
Becks "generic" FDC cachet under the Tri Color brand.
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larger size photo
Scan courtesy of Charlie Hamilton
Stewart Milstein sent us the abovescan of a previously unlisted
Beck TriColor cover.
The cachet was printed for the 1960 Inter
American Conference of American States.
We have several of these FDCs on our site, but this one is
special because if has Morris Beck's autograph!
Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson
Scott Number 1529.
Sean Marsar a long-time collector and very well
respected space cover dealer
designed this cover and had M W Beck print it.
According to Sean, 500 of these were printed. Note that the autograph was
added by a
collector and does not appear on all these first day covers.
Sean served in the US Navy in the 1960's aboard USS Essex and USS Enterprise.
The cover shown above was sold on eBay in July 2008 for $36.00.
It is signed by
Ed Gibson of Skylab 4. Scan courtesy of RJIPhilatelics.
The scan of the cover shown above was sent to us by Steve
Durst.
Steve writes: "The Beck first day cover is not especially
difficult, but try finding it with
authentic autographs of the 9 astronauts who flew on the 3 manned Skylab
flights
and all of them autographing one cover!"
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