Morris
W. Beck US Navy
Covers
 #1 First cover in the 1000 Navy Series. 1962 USS T Jefferson |
 Special "S" cover USS Enterprise Est $85 |
 Mercury Flight of Cooper |
 USS Hornet-Neil Armstrong-Lunar Landing 1969 |
 Apollo 15 Prime Recovery Ship |
 USS New Orleans VERY rare July 25 cancel Est $140 |
 Apollo Soyuz on Air Mail Envelope |
 #1000 Last cover in Navy Series USS Vinson. 1975 |
Reference Catalog, Checklist and
BLOG for US Navy Cover Collectors
Compiled and Managed by
Owen R. Murray,
A member of the USCS #5676 since 1966, and ATA Space Unit #4500
This Web site has over 3,000 scans of Beck Navy
and Event Covers with Reference
Text.
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351-402
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GT-2
515-569
GT-3, GT-4, GT-5
570-621
GTA-6 GT-7
622-687
AS-201, GTA-8,
GTA-9, GTA-10, AP-3, GTA-11
688-769
AS-202, GTA-12, AS-204,
AS-501, AS-502, AP-7
770-841
AP-8, AP-9, AP-10, AP-11, AP-12, AP-13, AP-14
842-899
AP-14, AP-15, AP-16, AP-17, SL-II, SL-III, SL-IV
900-951
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Apollo PRS Postmarked in Hawaii
WHAT
IS A CREW COVER?
ASTP USS New Orleans
July 25, 1975 onboard Cover
How postage rates affected collecting Beck Printing Log for Numbered Series
Updated Checklist Jan 2015
GTA-8 USS Boxer Quantities
Beck 929 Hawkins
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A Resource and Blog for Collectors of
Morris W. Beck Philatelic Covers.
Owen R. Murray
About
this site
Latest BLOG Update: January
23, 2015
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Previously Unlisted Scans are courtesy of Larry Johnson      |
New Additions To This Beck Site Sailor's mail a few weeks after the atomic bombs.  Similar to cachet with B764. Click HERE   Postcard
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Updated Checklists Now Available Updated Checklist Jan 2015 Free Downloads
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  See previously entry below about these ships cancels on B631. These covers are likely unique and we probably won't see any more of these (B630 postmarked on these two ships). |
Unlisted Beck Covers Surface From 1960's is Likely One of a Kind
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Thanks goes to Larry Johnson for sending us scans of three Morris W Beck state commemorative covers from 1951-2. These were previously unlisted is our checklist. |
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These covers were printed for Martin Longseth a collector.
In 2014 a number of these covers
with different ship cancelations sold for about $10 each. Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson |
B407 USS DALE AUTOGRAPHED ON THE FRONT AND A MESSAGE TO MR. BECK
ON THE BACK
B418 USS AMERICA ADDRESSED TO THE CO OF THE SHIP WITH A RS ON THE
BACK
B442 USS TINOSA USED A STICKER ON THE FRONT INSTEAD OF THE
NORMAL PRINTED CACHET. The design on the sticker is the
same design as Beck used on the cover. Beck did not print
this sticker.
B450 USS JOHN ADAMS AUTOGRAPHED
B451 USS TECUMSEH WITH TEST CACHET
B472 USS JOHN C CALHOUN HAND CANCELED. THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE
OBSERVED
B473 USS SIMON BOLIVAR HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
B476 USS JOHN WILLIS WITH RS ON FRONT AND BACK
B493 USS LEWIS AND CLARK WITH RS
B495 USS SAM RAYBURN WITH AUTOGRAPH
B495 USS SAM RAYBURN HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
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B518 WITH RS
B519 WITH RS
B520 WITH RS
B536 WITH RS
B544 WITH RS
B552 USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET
ON COVER
B577 USS SIMON BOLIVAR HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
B593 USS QUEENFISH HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
B594 USS LEWIS AND CLARK HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
TYPE 1
B594 USS LEWIS AND CLARK HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
TYPE 2
B646 USS GEORGE C MARSHALL HAND CANCELED AND A RS CACHET ON COVER
B778 USS COCHRANE CANCEL. We knew this cover existed but
did not have the scan. Thanks for Larry Johnson for
sending us the scan. Note that the cancel has A.M. and NOT
AM that we listed when we put this cover on the site years ago
(without a scan available).
B860 USS BLUE RIDGE WITH ONLY THE FANCY CANCEL. This is the only one we have observed without the machine cancel from Philadelphia. Nov 14 is the correct date for commissioning
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Unlisted Beck Crew Covers
Found On eBay
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Three Unlisted B631 Sold on eBay For many years, we thought that the Beck B631 postmarked on USS George K Mackenzie was the only B631 that existed. This week the three covers shown below have been added to our listing. This is an important find for Beck collectors.
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Previously Unlisted Beck Crew Covers Charlie Hamilton sent us scans of these two previously unlisted Crew Covers. Usually, Crew covers are typically seen on space issues but these Navy Day covers are a good example of how the US Navy coordinator made distribution of the covers (cachets) Mr. Beck sent for postmarking. Note that these two covers are addressed to the same person. (Postmarked on two different ships) |
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Beck's Covers With VIP Labels David Ball sent us scans of a great lot of Beck special covers. All the covers have the VIP label that bring a premium on eBay because the covers are usually CREW covers or have special cancellations from the recovery force. This lot of 6 covers sold for a big premium.
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Another previously unlisted Beck CREW cover.
Only about 25 Beck cachets were printed
without the |
Beck's Crew Covers
The Beck cachet for this event is B545.
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Beck's Early Covers Mr. Beck
returned from US Navy Service in 1946 and
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Scans courtesy of David Ball |
More Beck CREW Covers
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Also see other 1964 covers without the B number.
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Beck Covers for Listing
USS John Paul Jones Visits Foreign Ports. Scans courtesy of Charlie Hamilton
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More Information About W R Skelley, Jr
We have wondered for some time how it was possible for W R Skelley to obtain so many important space flight covers. Now it has become clear that he was the coordinator for the US Navy and had access to and distributed covers to the recovery ships. Scans courtesy of Don Hensley. |
CLICK HERE to see older articles... More older articles HERE |
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.
There are no paid ads or sponsorships on this site.
Morris W. Beck Naval Covers for Collectors
Naval covers have been popular since about the time of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet. A naval cover is an envelope or postcard 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.
