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US Navy Covers and First Day Covers by Morris W. Beck
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Morris W. Beck Philatelic Covers. Beck's 1000 set of covers is acknowledged as the most desirable US Navy Space Recovery covers
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Beck 1-1000 Numbered Checklist 1962-1975 38 Pages UPDATED December 2024
New Numbered Covers Checklist Available FREE
The two Hornet covers below
look identical except for the printed B804-B802.
Charlie Hamilton sent us the scans below from
an estate collection he is handling. Great covers, speak
for themselves!
The cover above was sold on eBay for $112.50
The cover above was sold on eBay for $61.00
The cover above was sold on eBay for $112.50
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An Early Beck 1943
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How Mr. Beck's cover service worked
Updated October 2024 Morris W. Beck of
Wisconsin was a collector starting while in high school in
the early 1940's and later was a His most popular series of Naval covers was the set from 1962-1975 and consisted of 1000 cachets (covers). He advertised his
cover service in the philatelic newspapers offering to print a
cachet on collector’s envelopes for a few cents each. He printed cachets
for Navy ship commissioning, launchings, anniversaries,
first day covers, etc.
Mr. Beck tried very
hard to get the recovery force information from the US Navy
as early as he could before a flight, but as The US Navy had a
coordinator to receive space cover postmarking
requests from collectors and dealers. As a "side note"
please note that Beck's printed color cachets and the rubber
stamp cachets used by the US Navy were very Above Right: Envelope with Mr. Beck's printed color cachet and "B Cachet Number". Navy applied postmark only. Both the example
ASTP covers probably had address removable labels and both
were sent to the collector as usual On the later Apollo flights you will notice that the image of the rubber stamp cachet that the US Navy used was smaller than the cachet Mr. Beck printed. Large rubber stamps were hard for the US Navy to apply so they requested smaller images. Remember that Mr. Beck provided the rubber stamp cachets to the US Navy free. Mr. Beck's Naval Cover Service Mr. Beck provided the service of printing a multicolor cachet on collector’s SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) envelopes sent to him. Collectors could also send a SASE directly to the Navy for the single color rubber stamp cachet and postmarking. For Mr. Beck's cover
service, Collectors would send a supply (25-50) of SASE to
Mr. Beck with a small service fee for cachet printing. Using the
information provided by the Navy regarding the total number
of ships in the recovery force, Look at some of the print log sheets Mr. Beck filled out that are shown on our site. http://beck.ormurray.com/becklog/index.htm So if the Navy told
Mr. Beck there would be 12 ships in the recovery force, then
Mr. Beck would print
the multicolor color cachet on the envelopes sent to him by collectors.
When the Navy received the shipments of printed color cacheted envelops from Mr. Beck, they distributed the envelopes to the ships of the recovery force. This is where it got
“messy” because someone at the Navy opened boxes and
redistributed envelopes without We have an article about Beck's multicolor envelopes without the B number. These are called CREW covers. See article HERE
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Is Totally Revised
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