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 |
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Apollo PRS Postmarked in Hawaii
WHAT
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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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Latest BLOG Update: March 6, 2015
 Scan courtesy of Larry Johnson USS Randolph CV-15-4/MAR/1947/ /  USS Sea Robin with Hand Cancel May 25, 1944,| This is the correct Launching date
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Previously Unlisted and
New Additions Scans courtesy of Larry Johnson
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 B875 CREW
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Previously Unlisted and
New Additions Beck B875 without the number, a CREW cover. We now have two USS Austin Apollo 15 CREW covers on the site. The difference is the location of the ship's name in the cancel. Scan courtesy of Steve Durst |
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Previously Unlisted and
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New Additions To This Beck Site Scans are courtesy of Larry Johnson
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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).
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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 |
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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.
