Morris W. Beck US Navy Covers
 US Navy USS Jefferson SSBN 618
First cover in the 1000 Navy Series. 1962
 
US Navy USS Enterprise CVAN-65 Aircraft Carrier
Special "S" cover USS Enterprise
 

Mercury Flight of Gordon Cooper
 
US Navy USS Hornet Apollo 11 Man on the Moon Moonlanding
USS Hornet-Neil Armstrong-Lunar Landing
 
 
Apollo 15 Prime Recovery Ship
 
US Navy USS New Orleans Space Skylab Recovery Astronauts
USS New Orleans Recovery for Skylab
 
US Navy Apollo Soyuz Space Recovery Astronauts
Apollo Soyuz on Air Mail Envelope
 
USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 Aircraft Carrier Keel Laying cover
Last cover in Navy Series USS Vinson.
 

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Very Unusual GT-9 PRS Sold for $159.50 on eBay 

The scans at left are the front and back of ONE cover.  Perhaps unique. 

On the front is the GT-8 USS Boxer cover with the hard to find BLUE RS cachet for GT-8.  On the back of the envelope is the printed captain's cover cachet for GT-9.

Two different flights, two dates.  Interesting.

Thanks to Dr. Ross Smith for providing information for this posting.

 

Beck 801 Apollo 11 Sold for $54 on eBay 

A very nice example of Beck 801 USS Hornet Apollo 11 PRS sold on eBay for $54.

 

Beck 630 Gemini 8 PRS Sold for $255 on eBay! 

This cover, the B630, USS Mason has always been an important PRS cover and the price has varied over the years.  This sale at $255 is probably a record price or perhaps the highest paid in the past 5-8 years.

 

Beck 699 CREW cover on Airmail Envelope 

Graeme J W Smith sent in the example of Beck 699 CREW

 

Beck 723 FREE Mail 

Rich Hoffner sent in this Beck 723 covers, a nice find in his "FREE" mail Viet Nam collection. Beck # 723, postmarked while ship in Vietnamese waters with Free franking privileges. Postal Clerk applied his rubber stamp to the cover.

 

Beck 998 July 17 Sold on eBay

Ross Smith agrees that this cover is a Sean Marsar cover and is similar to the cover postmarked on July 15 on that same flight.

According to Dr. Smith's research, only 10 covers were postmarked for each day with an extra 20 being postmarked on July 17, the day of docking.

If you could assemble a complete set of the Beck and Navy RS cachets for this flight, it might be worth $1000.

Cover from Mr. Beck's collection

Cachet designed by Donald O Schultz

 

 

Beck CREW 515 GT-3 Another one surfaces on eBay!

I'm surprised to see another GT-3 CREW cover offered on eBay.  It sold for only $32.  We estimate that this CREW Prime Recovery Ship cover is probably really worth $100-125+

 

Beck Covers and Interesting Material

I'm on the road for the next 6 weeks so my additions to this site will be quick and few!

The Blue envelope at left is unusual and from the exhibit of Dr. Ramkissoon.

The Betty Boop cachet is from Morris Beck's personal collection.  He did not produce this cachet as far as we know.

Other covers have been added in the Beck listing by individual covers.

April 25, 2010


Scan courtesy of Greg Ciesielski


Above, Scan Courtesy of Tom Steiner

The cover below from Dr Ross Smith, with the BLACK color missing is on our site.
See that page HERE
 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith

Beck #874 Apollo 15 Missing Green Color USS Kawishiwi

Courtesy of Tom Steiner, at left is a printed cachet color missing variety. 

Cover at bottom left is a B874 missing the black.

 


Scan Courtesy of Greg Ciesielski and Dave Kent
Beck #47 LDPS USS Miller Found Without MC Overprint

Courtesy of Greg Ciesielski and Dave Kent, here is a Beck #47 scan that made us revise the caption on the webpage.  "Most cancels are poor quality. All covers observed also have Boston MC July 31 on face of cover."

This one is clean with no Boston MC

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Bottom scan courtesy of Luc Jallot.  This cover is interesting because it shows the same markings as another cover on our site.  This seems to indicate that the changes to the Beck printed cachet were made by the ship's personnel and not a collector.

If you have a B521 OR B522 Wasp without the changes shown above, please send us a scan.


Shown here is a scan courtesy of
Spaceflori of Beck 522 Wasp with the same changes as the above B521 to the cachet.


Ross Smith helped to identify the interesting markings on this GT-4 cover. He wrote "the small blue circular cachet was applied by Morris Beck. He applied it to any cover at his customers request and therefore it is not just found on recovery ship covers, but also on other covers such as launch covers. He used a number of different colored inks and I'm aware of examples from Gemini 2 to Apollo 4. I've documented these cachets on my Recovery Ship Cover site including those ink colors that I'm aware of.  The JFK cachet is a George Goldey cachet and seems to be far less common on Recovery Ship covers than the Morris Beck cachet."

 


Scans courtesy of Luc Jallot.


 
Beck ASTP Rubber Stamp Postmarked July 25, 1975

Remember that the post office on the USS New Orleans was closed on the actual ASTP recovery date of July 24, 1975. This cover is special because it is on a two-sided post card.

See more similar covers from ASTP HERE

 


 
Beck B746 AS 501 Recovery Ship Cover Previously Unlisted

See Listing HERE

 


Scan courtesy of Tom Steiner
Beck B896 Skylab Hawaii Cancel Previously Unlisted

See Listing HERE

 


 
Beck B613 Wasp Recovery Ship Cover Previously Unlisted

Two similar B613 Wasp covers were offered on eBay.  Successful bidder Dr. Ross Smith informed us of his find.

 


 
Beck Printed Covers for Apollo 10 Missing Color

Ton Steiner sent us these scans of a missing background color on a Beck printed cover for Apollo 10.

See more varieties HERE


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith
Previously Unlisted Beck CREW Cover Apollo 14

The Apollo 14 CREW cover at left was sold on eBay ($29.55).  This is the first CREW cover we have seen from Apollo 14 cancelled on the Spiegel Grove, a secondary recovery ship for Apollo 14.

With Dr. Smith's find, we only need tolocate the CREW cover for Apollo 14, USS Hawkins to have scans for CREW covers for all the recovery ships on that mission where Mr. Beck provided printed cachets.  If you have a Hawkins CREW cover for this mission, please send us a scan.

 

Click HERE for FREE checklists Beck Space Covers Checklist

We've had numerous requests for a checklist showing ONLY Beck space printed covers from the 1-1000 numbered series of 1962-1974.  Click on link at left.  Basically, this is the same checklist as the numbered series except it shows only the popular US Naval Space covers produced by Morris W Beck.  Updated as of January 2010.

 



 

Two Previously Unlisted Beck Covers on eBay for Sale

There are two early Morris W Beck printed naval covers for sale on eBay right now.  Our site did not list either of these covers until we saw them on eBay.  Thanks to Rich of "nalwife".

USS Missouri 1944, a VERY early Beck cover.  He was still in high school. Very few produced.   Missouri eBay Link HERE

 

 

USS Corry 1947  eBay Link HERE


 
1973 Beck Printed Cachet for USCS Convention

The latest addition to our site is this 1973 Morris W Beck printed cachet for the USCS convention.  This was offered on eBay.

 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith
Beck  458 USS O'Hare

Beck's printing log indicates that B458 was for USS Eugene A Greene.  B458 with a cancel from the O'Hare is very seldom seen.  Dr. Ross Smith sent us this great example.

See the examples of Beck covers for this flight HERE

 

Beck 561 Lake Champlain Cover Gemini 5

An interesting Beck GT-5 PRS cover sold on eBay. $16.50  The Beck cover also bears the small circular rubber stamp that Beck applied to collector's envelopes sent to him AFTER the flight.  There are also two rubber stamp text lines applied to the Beck cachet.

If you know the origin of the two text rubber stamps, please let us know so we can share the details on this site.

 

 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith

AM  vs. A.M.

Apollo 11 Recovery Ship Cover-Cancel Variety

Dr. Ross Smith brought a cancel variety to our attention.  The cancel shown at left from the USS Goldsborough has PERIODS (dots) after the A and M.

Of the several dozen B803 and B804 printed Beck covers observed, none were found with the periods.  All examples observed were the same cancel but without the periods.  AM instead of A.M.

We've also searched many Navy RS cachets for this cancel and it has only been seen on a few covers reported by Dr. Smith and Steve Durst.  All with RS cachets like the one shown here.

Please review your Beck covers for B803 and B804 and let us know if you have one with A.M.

See article and scans of covers HERE The Story of ASTP Primary Recovery Ship Covers

Dr. Ross Smith, a frequent contributor to this Beck Cover web site and space cover collector, has written a very informative article that appeared in the Nov/Dec edition of the ATA Space Unit Astrophile.

Dr. Smith has revise his original article and added more information and covers.  See link at the left.  Thanks goes to Dr. Smith for allowing us to link to his article.

Morris W. Beck US Navy Space covers are among the most popular and sought after covers he produced.  If you are a collector of Beck covers you should belong to the USCS and the Space Unit.  See more information below.

 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith

Scan courtesy of Luc Jallot, France
TWO Unlisted  Morris W Beck Covers Found

The scans of the covers shown at left were sent to us by Dr. Ross Smith and Luc Jallot. 

After all these years of searching for Beck covers we are VERY surprised to see a GTA-8 Beck cover from the USS L R Mason other than B630.  Dr. Ross Smith was the successful eBay bidder for the cover shown at left.  Beck 629 with the Mason cancel.  Note the address is hand written.  Our guess, (only a guess) is that a Navy Postal Clerk got a hold of the printed covers sent by Beck and addressed this to a family member. This is probably one of a kind!  See HERE

This is the only B629 observed that is other than the USS Cochrane.

The second cover at left, from Luc Jallot, is a B881 from Apollo 16 with the corner card of the previously unlisted Beck cover for USS Alacrity.  We've seen this corner card on Navy RS cachets, but this is the first on a B881.  Take a look at the other Beck covers from Apollo 16 mission and it is clear that Beck supplied the cached envelopes to one or more dealers or collectors.  See HERE

 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith via eBay
Beck B998 Cover Found With USS New Orleans JUL 15 1975 Date

The cover shown at left was sold on eBay for only $37.00

This is an amazing cover.  Someone with real connections got this cover.  This is the only one we have seen or heard about.  See the listings under B998 for details about why this cover is so desirable.

 

 


Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith
Unlisted  Morris W Beck B757 Cover Found

The scan of the cover shown at left was sent to us by Dr. Ross Smith.  This cover is a B757 postmarked on the USS Nicholas for Apollo 7 recovery. This is the first B757 we have seen from a ship other than USS Cochrane.

Beck's hand-written printing log shows B756 and B757 were designated for Pacific recovery ships. Until now, the only Apollo7 Pacific covers observed were from USS Cochrane.  The cover shown at left from Smith's collection might be a unique cover.  Note the handwritten note above the cachet.  " D. R. Ray USS Nicholas DD-449"  It appears to be the same handwriting as the address. 

We've compared this cover with all the B756 and B757 and Beck RS cachets we have and observed only the Cochrane cancel on printed cachets.  On the RS cachets we saw several different ships including USS Nicholas.

We have always assumed that when the US Navy received the shipment of printed envelopes from Mr. Beck, they sent all the covers to the Cochrane.  Now we know that at least one made it to the Nicholas. 

Please check your collection to see if can find any other B757 from ships other than Cochrane.

 


Scan courtesy of Luc Jallot, France
Morris W Beck B838, Iwo Jima PRS with Hand Cancel, Name at tope

The scan of the cover shown at left was sent to us by Luc Jallot of France.  This cover is the harder to find of the Apollo 13 B838 covers.

Some interesting covers for the US space program comes from Europe.

 

We need a scan of B890 CREW We need a scan of the cover sold on eBay November 8.  It is Skylab II CREW cover Beck design number 890.  We believe it is postmarked at Norfolk.  If you have this cover, please send us a scan for our reference listings.

 

NEW Checklists

Beck 1-1000 Numbered Checklist 1962-1975

Beck Unnumbered Covers Checklist 1943-76

Beck Nuclear Covers 1962-64

Beck Foreign Covers 

Beck US Presidents Birth Series

Beck US Presidents Death Series

Beck States Series of 1951-2

Beck States Series of 1956-7

Beck/TriColor FDCs

Beck Numbered Series SUBS ONLY

 

Morris W. Beck Naval Covers Checklists

Compiled by Owen R. Murray  Updated November 20, 2009

Many new covers have been added to the checklist. 

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Please send corrections and additions to Owen R. Murray 

The checklists on this Web site are for personal use only and may be downloaded freely.  

Enjoy the hobby.

Send feedback or comments to Owen Murray using email link below

 


Scan courtesy of Steve Durst
Morris W Beck Scott #1529 FDC with ALL Skylab Astronaut Autog

The scan of the cover shown at left 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!"
 



Scans courtesy of Greg Ciesielski
Morris W Beck Rubber Stamp Cachets for Space Events

Many thanks to Greg Ciesielski for sending us scans for discussion purposes of covers with Mr. Beck's rubber stamp cachets applied by the Navy.  Beck supplied the US Navy with rubber stamps of the designs he used for the printed cachets.  Many times the "higher quality" rubber stamp cachets are viewed as the printed cachets.  Some times the quality of the rubber stamp cachet is so good it is hard to tell the difference.  Of course the rubber stamp cachets never have the "B" number, so that is the first thing to look for. 

Thanks to Ross Smith, a frequent contributor to this site commented as follows:
"The collecting of recovery ship covers including secondary recovery ship covers is a fascinating area for collectors. While many of the SRS covers are relatively common, some are quite rare and it is a real challenged to put together a comprehensive collection of such covers. My site (http://recovery_ships.rossjsmith.com/ ) lists all known covers and shows examples of most of them."
 


Scans courtesy of David S Ball
Morris W Beck Cover Service Postcard Notices

Many thanks to David S. Ball for sending us scans of postcards actually sent by Mr. Beck to one of his subscribers to his cover services.  Cards are from 1963-65.

Click on each postcard thumbnail at the left to see the postcard and be able to read the text.

For more information on this topic please see HERE

Also see how Mr. Back used postcards like these to keep his scribers informed as postal rates changed.  HERE

 

Recent selling prices and bargains of Beck Covers on eBay.  Please note that these are the actual selling prices on eBay.  We are NOT offering these covers for sale.  This Web site is for reference only.


Thank you for visiting and enjoy collecting Morris W Back covers.  Owen R Murray

BIN=Buy it Now-eBay store

 

July 2008-November 2009
Prices HERE

Last Updated February 4, 2010
Please note that we are changing the format of prices realized.  We will published eBay prices realized for Beck covers with the listing pages.

Note: eBay Selling price shown below does not include tax or shipping cost

eBay Prices February 2010
Beck  USS Missouri Launch 1944 early Beck $13.50
Beck  863 USS Spiegel Grove Apollo 14 CREW no# $29.55
Beck  818, 817,816,815, 810,809, 808, 894, 891, 886, 887, 656 $3.50 each
Beck  887, 883 Apollo 17 Norfolk $5.65  each
Beck  822, USS J Strauss Ap12 $5.65
Beck  GTA9 655, 650, 649 $3.50 each
Beck  GTA-9 654,653 GTA9 $5.65
 

eBay Prices January 2010
Beck 977 USS Nitro Vets Day $3.95
Beck 189 USS Topeka July 4 $3.99
Beck 531, 431, 498 $3.95 each
Beck 476, 371, 367, 617 $2.50 each
Beck  20 USS Alstede $2.50
Beck 440, 439, 434, 433, 431, $3.50 each
Beck 447 $10.00, 444, 443, 441, $10.50 each
Beck 465, $9.00 454, 453,41, $8,50 each
Beck 475, 467, 448, 449, 445, $3.50, 474, $7.50,  468, $5.50
Beck 481, $5.51, 465 $3.00
Beck 484 USS Waccamaw Comm, 477 $10.50 each
Beck 485 USS JFK Keel $3.75
Beck 490 USS Belmont Comm $16.50
Beck 506, 621 $4.50, 500 $3.75, 377 $2.50
Beck 570, 551, 533, 513, 511, 509, 508, 507, 504,498, 497, 724, 486, 480 $3.50 each
Beck 616 $10.50, 572,571, 550, 496, 494, 487, 483,  $4.24 each
Beck 617 USS Cleveland Launch $3.50
Beck 639 USS Noa GTA8 $4.95
Beck 839 USS Kawishiwi AP13 $9.99
Beck 429 USS Fox Launch $3.00
Beck 428 USS Sample Launch $3.00
Beck 425 USS Cochrane Comm $9.50
Beck 421 USS Bradley Launch $3.00
Beck 420 USS Cimarron 25th $3.00
Beck 418 USS American Launch $8.49
Beck 417 USS Simon Lake Launch $3.00
Beck 415 USS Duluth Keel $5.73
Beck 414 USS Jamestown Comm $10.50
Beck 413 USS Mars Comm $10.00
Beck 412 USS J P Kennedy JFK $4.85
Beck 411 USS England Comm $10.00
Beck 917 USS Calif July 4th $3.99
Beck 400, 398, 397, 396, 394, 382  $3.00 each
Beck 637 Boxer GTA8 $9.99
Beck 376 USS Goldsborough Comm $4.75
Beck 374 USS McCloy Comm $3.00
Beck 947 USS Guadalcanal $2.49
Beck 805 USS Ozark AP11 $4.24
Beck 804 USS Goldsborough AP11 $3.00
Beck 797 USS Rich AP10 $5.50
Beck 793 USS Rich AP10 $4.24
Beck 791 USS Ozark AP10 $3.00
Beck 781 USS Nicholas AP9 $4.24
Beck 703, 702, 675, 666, 665, 664, 640,639,629, 632  $4.24 Each
Beck 680 USS Chandler GTA11 $5.50
Beck 637 Boxer GTA8 $4.50
Beck 634 USS Boxer GTA8 $5.50
Beck 627, 610 $6.50
Beck 592 USS Massey GTA6 $6.00
Beck 590 USS Stickell GTA6 $5.50
Beck 589 USS Noa GTA6 $4.24
Beck 588 USS Aucilla $4.24
Beck 587 USS Basilone GTA6 $4.24
Beck 568 USS New GT5 $3.00
Beck 564 USS Weeks GT5 $4.24
Beck 560, 558, 556 GT5 $4.24 Each
Beck 557 USS Taylor GT5 $9.50
Beck 678, 677, 671, 669, 668, 663 GTA10 $4.24
Beck 670 USS Norris GTA10 $5.86
Beck 672 USS Guadalcanal GTA10 PRS $5.85
Beck 627 USS Kaskaskia AP $6.50
Beck 610 USS Waldron GT6 $6.50
Beck 592 USS Massey GTA6 $6.00
Beck 590 USS Stickell GTA6 $5.50 
Beck 589, 588, 587, 564, 560, 558, 556,  GTA5/6 $4.24 Each
Beck 568 $3.00, 557 $9.50, 678, 677, 671 $3.24 670 $5.86
Beck 656 USS Chikaskia GTA9 $5.87
Beck 798, 796, 652, 648, 647, 631, $3.24
Beck 650 USS Rupertus GTA9 $5.89 
Beck 649 USS MacKenzie GTA 9 $5.93
Beck 626 USS  Kaskaskia AP $6.50
Beck 625, 624 $5.50, 623 $3.24 
Beck 613 $6.50, 612 $5.47
Beck 442 USS Tinosa $3.00
Beck 935 USS P Rock $ .99
Beck 404 USS Hale FDIC $3.00
Beck 935 USS P Rock VJ Day $.99
Beck 404 USS Hale FDIC $3.00
Beck 822 USS Strauss  AP12 $3.50
Beck 350 USS Calhoun Launch $6.50
Beck 611 USS J P Kennedy GT-6 $3.25
Beck 606, 609,  GT-7 $3.24
Beck 599 USS Coc GT-7 $3.24
Beck 601, 602, 604 GT-7 $10.25 ea
Beck 874 USS Kawashiwi AP15 $3.24
Beck 893 USS New Orl SLIII $3.24
Beck 682 USS Mansfield GT-11 $10.25
Beck 681 USS OBannon GT-11 $10.25
Beck 535 USS Ponch.GT-4 $10.25
Beck 599 USS Cochrane GT-7 $6.05
Beck 198 USS Independence July4 $9.99
Beck 584 USS Wasp GTA-6 PRS $20.05
Beck 561 USS Lake Champlain GT-5 PRS $16.50
Beck 583 USS Renshaw GTA-6 $10.50
Beck 582 USS Rupertus GTA-6 $8.49
Beck 567 USS Neosho GT-5 $8.49
Beck 579 USS Ponch. GTA-6 $10.50
Beck 566 USS J C Owens GT-5 $8.49
Beck 559 USS MacKenzie GT-5 $8.49
Beck 547 USS C S Sperry GT-4 $9.49
Beck 546 USS Rich GT-4 $8.49
Beck 541 USS R A Owens GT-4 $8.49
Beck 535 USS Ponch. GT-4 $8.49
Beck 534 USS Goldsb. GT-4 $8.49
Beck 788 USS Chipola AP10 $8.49
Beck 459 USS E A Greene GT $4.49
Beck 951 USS Peoria CitDay $4.99
Beck 783 USS Algol AP9 $6.50
Beck 780 USS Nicholas AP9 $6.50
Beck 779 USS Nicholas AP9 $6.50
Beck 778 USS Nicholas AP9 $5.00
Beck 451 USS Tecumseh FDIC $3.00
Beck 738 USS Lexington July4 $3.00
 

eBay Prices December 2009
Beck 793 USS Rich Apollo 10 $3.25
Beck 789 USS Chipola Apollo 10 $3.25
Beck 781 USS Nicholas Apollo 9 $3.25
Beck 863 USS Spiegel Grove Apollo 14 $4.75
Beck 862 USS Ponchatoula Apollo 14 $3.00
Beck 839 USS Kawishiwi Apollo 13 $7.45
Beck 824 USS Hawkins Apollo 12 $7.49
Beck 823 USS Austin Apollo 12 $9.50
Beck 822 USS J Strauss Apollo 12 $7.45
Beck 807 USS Ozark Apollo 11 $7.46
Beck 805 USS Ozark Apollo 11 $11.50
Beck 804 USS Goldsborough Apollo 11 $8.00
Beck 803 USS Goldsborough Apollo 11 $7.95
Beck 772 USS Guad. Ap 8 $7.45
Beck 746 USS York Cty Ap AS 501 $7.49
Beck 733 USS J Kennedy AS 501 $3.25
Beck 732 USS Austin AS501 $3.25
Beck 731 USS Sabine AS501 $3.25
Beck 704 USS Ozbourn GTA-12 $6.00
Beck 682 USS Mansfield GTA-11 $5.50
Beck 791 USS Ozark Apollo 10 $3.25
Beck 312 USS Gridley Comm $2.25
Beck 910 USS Voge MemDay $.99
Beck 629 USS L Mason GTA-8 PRS $38.95
Beck 861 USS New Orleans Apollo 14 PRS $11.77
Beck 748 USS Okinawa AS502 PRS $14.57
Beck 608 USS Wasp GT-7 PRS Autog, CO  $34.00
Beck 622 USS Boxer Apollo $9.99
Beck 888 USS Ticonderoga SLII PRS $9.99
Beck 984 USS Patterson Xmas $3.00
Beck 997 USS Concord LEX/Con Battle $4.26
Beck 994 USS Oldendorf Christening $2.50
Beck 991 USS Roanoke Launch $2.50 
Beck 987 USS Fiske Thanksgiving $2.50
Beck 979 USS Connole Vet Day $2.50
Beck 978 USS B County Vet Day $2.50
Beck 976 USS Badger Vet Day $2.50
Beck 973 USS M Fox ND $2.50
Beck 972 USS Navasota ND $2.50
Beck 971 USS Damato ND $2.50
Beck 969 USS Okinawa UN $2.50
Beck 967 USS Agerholm UN $2.50
Beck 966 USS Lynde McCormich UN $2.50
Beck   35 USS J Hood MemDay $2.00
Beck   27 USS Dyess 17th Ann $3.85
Beck 954 USS Dubuque Col Day $2.50
Beck 876 Norfolk Apollo 15 $3.00
Beck 835 USS Inchon Comm $3.50
Beck 844 USS Frederick Comm $3.25
Beck 872 USS Peterson Keel $2.50
Beck 877 USS Kinkaid Launch $3.25
Beck 878 USS Caron Keel Cachet error $3.50
Beck 980 USS S Gompers Xmas $2.50
Beck 885 USS Ticonderoga Apollo 17 PRS $9.99
Beck 906 USS Vulcan AF $2.50
Beck 914 USS Seattle Flag Day $2.50
Beck 966 USS L McCormick UN $2.00
Beck 578 USS Whale Launch $2.00
Beck 928 USS Austin 5th Ann moon $8.45
Beck 894 Norfolk SLIII $1.50
Beck 886 Norfolk  Apollo 17 $3.20
Beck 796 USS Carpenter Apollo 10 $2.50
Beck 859 USS J Hewes Comm $8.00  BIN
Beck 863 USS Spiegel Grove  Apollo 14 $5.50
Beck 862 USS Ponchatoula Apollo 14 $3.00
Beck 719 KSC AS204 $3.75
Beck 718 KSC AS204 $3.75
Beck 717 KSC AS204 $3.75
Beck 878 USS Caron Keel $3.00
Beck 837 USS Lang Comm $3.00
Beck 833 USS Fresno Comm $5.51
Beck 818 USS Sumter Comm $3.00
Beck 816 USS Coronado Comm $3.00
Beck 765 USS Newell Decom $3.00
Beck 754 USS Kilauea Comm $3.00
Beck 741 USS Francis Marion July 4 $3.00
Beck 740 USS LaSalle July 4 $3.00
Beck 721 USS J F Kennedy Christening $10.50
Beck 644 USS R L Page Launch $3.00
Beck 641 USS Tripoli Comm $3.00
Beck 615 USS Juneau Launch $3.00
Beck 595 USS Talbot Launch $3.00
Beck 570 USS O'Callahan Launch $9.50
Beck 551 USS Tripoli Launch $3.00
Beck 513 USS Koelsch Launch $3.00
Beck 509 USS Canopus Launch $3.00
Beck   31 USS  Reeves Launch $3.25 
Beck 600 USS Rupertus GT-7 $2.95
Beck 486 USS Biddle Launch $3.00
Beck 454 USS Sterett Launch $3.00
Beck 453 USS Jouett Launch $3.80
Beck 448 USS Ogden Launch $3.80
Beck 755 USS Puget Sound Comm $3.50
Beck 443 USS Wainwright Launch $3.80
Beck 429 USS Fox Launch $3.00
Beck 421 USS Bradley Launch $3.00
Beck 417 USS Simon Lake Launch $3.00
Beck 409 USS J Daniels Launch $3.00
Beck 370 USS Sacramento Launch $3.00
Beck 369 USS Holland Comm $3.00
Beck 365 USS Belknap Launch $4.25
Beck 360 USS Brooke Launch $3.00
Beck 347 USS McDonnell Launch $3.80
Beck 344 USS LaSalle Launch $3.00
Beck 328 USS Turner Launch $3.00
Beck 315 USS Mars Launch $4.00
Beck 799 USS Juneau Comm $2.50
Beck 737 USS R L Page Comm $2.50
Beck 308 USS Waddell Launch $3.00
Beck   97 USS Stoddert Launch $3.00
Beck   61 USS Cochrane Launch $3.00
Beck   40 USS McCloy Launch $3.00
Beck   32 USS Conyngham Launch $3.80
Beck   10 USS Bronstein Launch $3.00
Beck     9 USS Raleigh Launch $3.00
Beck     2 USS England Launch $3.00
Beck 735 USS White Plains Comm $2.25
Beck 616 USS Ramsey Comm $2.25
Beck 512 USS Bradley Comm $2.25
Beck 628 USS Grayling Launch $2.50
Beck 618 USS Tautog Launch $2.50
Beck 597 USS Kamehameha Comm $2.50
Beck 994 USS Oldendorf Christening $4.57 BIN
Beck 551 USS Tripoli Launch $4.14 BIN
Beck 676 USS O'Bannon AS202 $3.00
Beck 668 USS Collett GTA 10 $3.00
Beck 664 USS DeHaven GTA 10 $3.00
Beck 654 USS Bordelon GTA-9 $3.00
Beck 653 USS Lawe GTA-9 $3.00
Beck 614 USS Renshaw GT-7 $3.00
Beck 610 USS Waldron GT-6 $3.00
Beck 352 USS F Marion 2nd Anv $2.00
Beck 348 USS Tecumseh Launch $2.00
Beck 998 USS New Orleans ASTP JUL 15, 1975 $37.00

Beck 703 USS Hollister GTA-12 $2.25
Beck 435 USS Greenling Launch $2.25
Beck 530 USS Polk Launch $8.50
Beck 911 USS Dixon MemDay $2.00 BIN
Beck 958 USS Horne ColDay $2.75 BIN
Beck 941 USS Bainbridge LD74 $2.75 BIN
Beck 367 USS Sylvania Launch $2.50
Beck 363 USS Gridley $2.50
Beck 360 USS Brooke Launch $2.50
Beck 345 USS Strauss PanCanal $2.75
Beck 346 USS Bronstein Comm $3.01
Beck 328 USS Turner Launch $4.26
Beck 315 USS Mars Launch $2.75
Beck 310 USS Berkeley PanCanal $2.75
Beck 406 USS Wilson Comm $2.50
Beck 357 USS Lafayette Comm $2.75
Beck 356 USS Webster Launch $3.26
Beck 353 USS A Jackson Comm $2.50
Beck   98 USS Brooke $Keel $2.50
Beck   86 USS Lester Unitas $2.75
Beck   82 USS F Marion ND 62 $2.50
Beck   75 USS Vancouver Launch $2.50
Beck   73 USS Raleigh Comm $2.50
Beck 329 USS Southerland with Macarthur's autog $19.99
Beck 463 USS Lake Champlain Gemini PRS $21.50
Beck 327 USS Thomason Mercury $12.99
Beck 510 USS Bancroft Launch $2.50
Beck 505 USS Kamehameha Launch $2.50
Beck 471 USS Pulaski Comm $2.50
Beck 419 USS Pulaski Launch $2.50
Beck 408 USS Monroe Comm $2.50
Beck 569 USS New GT-5 $3.00
Beck 592 USS Massey GTA-6 $3.00
Beck 590 USS Stickell GTA-6 $3.00
Beck 589 USS Noa GTA-6 $3.00
Beck 588 USS Aucilla GT-6 $3.00
Beck 586 USS Borie GTA-6 $5.50
Beck 581 USS Cochrane GTA-6 $3.00
Beck 580 USS MacKenzie GTA-6 $4.25
Beck 563 USS Weeks GT-5 $3.55
Beck 563 USS DuPont GT-5 $3.00
Beck 562 USS Manely GT-5 $3.00
Beck 555 USS Goldsborough GT-5 $3.00
Beck 545 USS Blandy GT-4 $3.00
Beck 544 USS Barry GT-4 $3.00
Beck 542 USS Furse GT-4 $3.00
Beck 539 USS Orleck GT-4 $3.00
Beck 336 USS Ware Mercury $2.50
Beck 789 USS Chipola Apollo 10 $2.50
Beck 757 USS Nicholas Apollo 7 UNLISTED $3.25
Beck   66 USS McGinty LDPS $2.50
Beck   63 USS Woodson LDPS $3.25
Beck   62 USS Brannon LDPS $3.25
Beck  974 USS Reasoner ND 74 $2.00
Beck  352 USS Francis Marion 2nd Ann $3.25
Beck  973 USS Miles Fox ND 74 $2.00

 

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Universal Ship Cancellation Society

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your dues to the address on the form.

Today the non-profit USCS has over 1,200 worldwide members and offer many resources for collectors.  The monthly USCS LOG publication (included with membership) is packed with information about naval covers, ships, how to order postcards, history, and addresses of ships to send for your own postmarks from US Navy ships.  SEE MORE


The Space Unit specializes in the topic of Space.  Beck's most popular covers are the covers produced for the US Manned space flights.  The publication contains information about space covers that you will not find anywhere else.  Join today!

Space Topic Study Unit of the ATA and APS

The Space Unit is a non-profit organization of hobbyists devoted to the collection and study of covers and stamps issued on space themes. It has a world wide membership and is the largest independent astrophilatelic society in the world. Members receive 6 magazines each year and members only auctions of space related covers and stamps.

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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. 


 

 

 

 

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The Numbered Series    About the Series  1-50    51-99 MA-8   S,100-150   151-200   201-250   251-299   300-350 MA-9 
 
351-402   403-455    456-514 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   952-1000 ASTP


Articles and Resources: Apollo PRS Postmarked in Hawaii
ASTP USS New Orleans July 25, 1975 onboard Cover
How postage rates affected collecting  Beck Printing Log for Numbered Series

  Updated Checklist June 2008   GTA-8 USS Boxer  Quantities
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