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Interesting Morris W. Beck Cover
varieties and oddities.
Scans courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith.
The red background color is missing from the B998 cachet.
The yellow background color is missing from the B999
cachet.
Scans courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith.
The background color is missing from the above GTA-8 cachets.
The cover below shows the cachet with the background color.
Scan is courtesy of Dr. Ross Smith. Note that this
cover shows B999.
All other Pacific ASTP we have observed have the B998 cachet.
Above: Scan of cachet printing variety cover from the Tom
Steiner.
Below: Beck cover with correct cachet colors for comparison.
Above: Scan of cachet printing variety cover from the Tom
Steiner.
Below: Beck cover with correct cachet colors for comparison.
Skylab missing RED color
Tom Steiner sent us this scan of missing background color
on a Beck printed cover for Apollo 10.
Ton Steiner sent us this scan of missing background color
on a Beck printed cover for Apollo 10.
Luc Jallot, France sent us this scan of a Beck Gemini cover with the green
color missing.
Above: Scan of cover from the collection of Eddie Bizub
via the estate of Richard Learn. Note the missing black color.
Below: Beck cover with correct cachet colors for comparison.
Above: Scan of cover from the collection of Eddie Bizub
via the estate of Richard Learn. Note the missing blue color.
Below: Beck cover with correct cachet colors for comparison.
Above: Scan of cover from the collection of Eddie Bizub
via the estate of Richard Learn. Note the missing green color.
Below: Beck cover with correct cachet colors for comparison.
Above: Tom Steiner, President,
Space Unit
sent us this scan of B579 cover that is missing the background color of the
Beck cachet.
Shown for comparison is the "normal" B579 (TOP) and the cover missing
the background (BOTTOM). There are three additional examples of the missing
background found by Tom.
1.Cochrane B581
2. Rupertus B582
3.Renshaw B583
Above: Tom Steiner, President,
Space Unit
sent us this scan of B896 cover that is missing the green color of the Beck
cachet.
Shown for comparison is the "normal" B896 CREW (TOP) and the cover
missing the green (BOTTOM).
Above: Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross J. Smith.
Paul Huber found this very
unusual Beck cover for the
PRS USS Intrepid for GT-3.
The cover is missing the silver color. The yellow and blue are printed
normally.
Below: Is the correctly printed B515. The YELLOW color difference
between the two B515 covers is due to the scan.
Above: The very
interesting TRIPLE CACHET cover shown above has the Beck cachet number B515
printed on the BACK of the cover.
The Project Gemini cachet was applied to the front of the cover
before it was sent to Mr. Beck. Beck
printed his cachet on the back of the envelope and then sent the envelope to
the US Navy for postmarking.
The US Navy applied the round cachet on the front. There is one other
example of a similar cover for GT-5 Beck 561.
Scan courtesy of Dr. Ross J. Smith
Beck 958 Columbus Day cover ERROR cover. The cover above
is missing the black color.
At first, we thought it was a CREW cover because it didn't have a printed
Beck number.
Then we realized that it was missing a color! Thanks to Steve Durst
for sending us the scan.
Above: Beck 958 cover with all colors in the cachet.
Scan courtesy of Tom Steiner Cachet is
missing the green color. Also see behow.
Above: B874 missing Black Color. Scan courtesy of Dr.
Ross J Smith
Below: Normal cachet with Red, Green and Black colors.
Note that the red and blue lines at the top of the cover are not part of
Beck's cachet.
The lines were already on the envelope sent to Beck.
Printing test sample made by Beck to prepare covers. Both of these
cachets are printed on the same envelope.
Above: B763 Beck cachet missing Brown Color. Below: Normal Beck cover
Above: B973 cachet missing Blue Color. Below is a comparison.
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