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Morris W. Beck First Day
Covers
Morris W. Beck produced
First Day Covers (FDC) for many new stamps. He produced self service
envelopes and provided a service for collectors. Several FDC examples
are shown below. His first FDC was for the 3c Baltimore and Ohio RR
stamp of February 28, 1952. Later he produced FDCs under the brand
name Tri Color. Also shown below is a private FDC printed for Sean
Marsar for the 1974 Sky Lab Stamp.
Beck's first FDC
Above: scan courtesy of Richard Hoffner.
Mr. Becks "generic" FDC cachet under the Tri Color brand.
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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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