|
Beck Number |
Mission |
Description of Cachet |
Postmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| B515 | GT-3 | Missing Silver | USS Intrepid (PRS) |
| B5161 | GT-3 | Missing Yellow | USS Douglas H Fox |
| B5241 | GT-3 | Missing Yellow | USS Mullinnix |
| B5271 | GT-3 | Missing Yellow | USS John Paul Jones |
| B5791 | GT-6 |
Plain rather than Textured Background (similar to B610-B613) |
USS Ponchatoula |
| B5811 | GTA-6 |
Plain rather than Textured Background (similar to B610-B613) |
USS Cochrane |
| B5821 | GTA-6 |
Plain rather than Textured Background (similar to B610-B613) |
USS Rupertus |
| B5831 | GTA-6 |
Plain rather than Textured Background (similar to B610-B613) |
USS Renshaw |
| B5891 | GTA-6 |
Missing Silver |
USS Noa |
| B635 | GTA-8 | Missing Blue Textured Background | USS Caloosahatchee |
| B636 | GTA-8 | Missing Blue Textured Background | USS Myles C. Fox |
| B638 | GTA-8 | Missing Blue Textured Background | USS Charles P. Cecil |
| B639 | GTA-8 | Missing Blue Textured Background | USS Noa |
| B640 | GTA-8 | Missing Blue Textured Background | USS Goodrich |
| B657 | GTA-9 | Misaligned Colours | USS Wasp |
| B703 | GTA-12 | Missing Green | USS Hollister |
| B7031 | GTA-12 | Missing Green | USS Hollister |
| B7871 | Apollo 10 | Missing Green Textured Background | USS Princeton |
| B78710 | Apollo 10 | Missing Green Textured Background & B787 on left side of cachet | USS Princeton |
| B7881 | Apollo 10 | Missing Green Textured Background | USS Chipola |
| B840 | Apollo 13 | Cachet not Fully on Cover | USS New |
| B874 | Apollo 15 | Missing Black | USS Kawishiwi |
| B874 | Apollo 15 | Missing Green - since the Beck number was printed in green, the number is missing from this cover | USS Kawishiwi |
| B8741 | Apollo 15 | Missing Green - since the Beck number was printed in green, the number is missing from this cover | USS Kawishiwi |
| B8961 | Skylab 3 |
Missing Green |
USS New Orleans |
| B8961 | Skylab 3 |
Missing Red - Note that the B896 number would have been printed in the missing red colour |
USS New Orleans |
| B998 | ASTP | Missing Red | San Francisco |
| B999 | ASTP | Missing Yellow/Orange | Norfolk |
| B998/999 | ASTP | Has a cachet as per B998 but is numbered B999! Also number & border are black rather than blue. | San Francisco |
| B9997 | ASTP | Is missing lower right corner of cachet which includes the number. May be a printing error? | Norfolk |
|
Assumed Beck Number |
Mission | Postmark |
|---|---|---|
| B3179a | MA-9 | USS Fletcher |
| B3233 | MA-9 | USS Kearsarge (PRS) |
| B3239a | MA-9 | USS Kearsarge (PRS) |
| B319 | MA-9 | USS Mansfield |
| B3429a | MA-9 | USS Corry |
| B456-B463 | GT-2 | Cape Canaveral |
| B461 | GT-2 | USS Lake Champlain (PRS) |
| B515 | GT-3 | USS Intrepid (PRS) |
| B540 | GT-4 | USS Wasp |
| B540 | GT-4 | USS Wasp |
| B5409a | GT-4 | USS Wasp |
| B561 | GT-5 | USS Lake Champlain (PRS) |
| B579 | GT-6A | USS Ponchatoula |
| B583 | GT-6A | USS Renshaw |
| B5842 | GT-6A | USS Wasp (PRS) HC |
| B584 | GT-6A | USS Wasp (PRS) MC |
| B697 | Apollo 202 | USS Robert A. Owens |
| B697 (airmail) | Apollo 202 | USS Robert A. Owens |
| B6986 | Apollo 202 | USS James C Owens |
| B791 | Apollo 10 | USS Ozark |
| B807 | Apollo 11 | USS New |
| B824 | Apollo 12 | USS Hawkins |
| B82413 | Apollo 12 | USS Hawkins with the rare ship's name on bottom of postmark variety |
| B83814 | Apollo 13 | USS Iwo Jima (PRS) |
| B83?14 | Apollo 13 | USS Iwo Jima (PRS) - note that the cachet is for the wrong ocean |
| B83911 | Apollo 13 | USS Kawishiwi |
| B840 | Apollo 13 | USS New |
| B861 | Apollo 14 | USS New Orleans (PRS) |
| B863 | Apollo 14 | USS Spiegel Grove |
| B874 | Apollo 15 | USS Okinawa (PRS) |
| B875 | Apollo 15 | USS Austin |
| B8766 | Apollo 15 | None (Norfolk?) |
| B880 | Apollo 16 | USS Ticonderoga (PRS) |
| B880 | Apollo 16 | Norfolk |
| B882 | Apollo 16 | Norfolk |
| B8866 | Apollo 17 | Norfolk |
| B888 | Skylab 2 | USS Ticonderoga (PRS) |
| B890 | Skylab 2 | Norfolk |
| B892 | Skylab 3 | USS New Orleans (PRS) |
| B894 | Skylab 3 | Norfolk |
| B896 - Straight Lines | Skylab 4 | USS New Orleans (PRS) |
| B896 - Wavy Lines | Skylab 4 | USS New Orleans (PRS) |
| B898 | Skylab 4 | Norfolk (Hand Cancel) |
| B940 | Launch | USS Texas |
|
Beck Number |
Mission |
Description of Cachet |
Postmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| B451/Project Gemini | Gemini | The Gemini 2 cachet plus a USS Tecumseh cachet - Possibly a test cover (one of four known) | None |
| B515 | GT-3 | Beck printed cachet on back of cover with both a Navy cachet and a Project Gemini cachet on the front | USS Intrepid (PRS) |
| B5614 | GT-5 | Beck printed cachet on back of cover with a Project Gemini cachet on the front | USS Lake Champlain (PRS) |
| B5623 | GT-5 | Beck printed cachet on back of cover with a Project Gemini cachet on the front | USS Manley |
| B7205 | Apollo 4 | Beck printed cachet with additionalred KSC official AS 501 Apollo 4 cachet | Kennedy Space Center |
| B8385 | Apollo 13 | Beck Crew cover on front with Norfolk postmark and TF-140 cachet on the back | Norfolk |
|
Beck Number |
Mission |
Description of Cachet |
Postmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS John A Bole postmark. | USS John A Bole |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS de Haven postmark. | USS de Haven |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Duncan postmark. | USS Duncan |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Epperson postmark. | USS Epperson |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Frank Knox postmark | USS Frank Knox |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Kearsarge postmark. | USS Kearsarge |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Loftberg postmark. | USS Loftberg |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS Mansfield postmark. | USS Mansfield |
| B317 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Fletcher it has a USS John W. Thomason postmark. | USS John W. Thomason |
| B332 | MA-9 | Designated for the USS Myles C. Fox it has a Jacksonville postmark. Extremely Rare. | Jacksonville |
| B4566 | GT-2 | Designated for the USS Holder it has a USS Lake Champlain(PRS) postmark. Only three have been recorded. | USS Lake Champlain |
| B456 | GT-2 | Another designated for the USS Holder it has a USS Lake Champlain(PRS) postmark. Only three have been recorded. | USS Lake Champlain |
| B525 | GT-3 | The postmark on this cover uses brown/gold ink. One of only two know examples. | USS Harold J. Ellison |
| B52910 | GT-3 | Designated for the Sarsfield, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Ellison | USS Harold J. Ellison |
| B604 | GT-7 | Designated for the USS Waldron, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wasp | USS Wasp |
| B6067 | GT-7 | Designated for the USS Aucilla, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wasp | USS Wasp |
| B6082 | GT-7 | USS Wasp (PRS) Hand Cancel | USS Wasp |
| B616 | GT-6a | Designated for the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wasp | USS Wasp |
| B625 | Apollo 201 | Designated for the USS Robert L. Wilson, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer | USS Boxer |
| B6277 | Apollo 201 | Designated for the USS Kaskaskai, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer | USS Boxer |
| B630 | GT-8 | Designated for the USS Leonard F. Mason, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Cochrane | USS Cochrane |
| B630 | GT-8 | Designated for the USS Leonard F. Mason, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Hassayampa | USS Hassayampa |
| B631 | GT-8 | Designated for the USS George K. MacKenzie, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Hassayampa | USS Hassayampa |
| B639 | GT-8 | Designated for the USS Noa, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer | USS Boxer |
| B640 | GT-8 | Designated for the USS Goodrich, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer | USS Boxer |
| B640 | GT-8 | Another cover designated for the USS Goodrich, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer | USS Boxer |
| B640 | GT-8 | Another cover designated for the USS Goodrich, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Boxer. Note Skelley's address on the back | USS Boxer |
| B652 | GT-9 | Designated for the USS Robert L. Wilson, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wasp | USS Wasp |
| B653 | GT-9 | Designated for the USS William C. Law, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wasp | USS Wasp |
| B687 | GT-11 | Designated for the USS Guam, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Wallace L. Lind | USS Wallace L. Lind |
| B70910 | GT-12 | Designated for the USS Canisteo this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Joseph P Kennedy Jr | USS Joseph P Kennedy Jr |
| B709 | GT-12 | Designated for the USS Canisteo this cover was postmarked at Cape Canaveral on both 11th and 15th | Cape Canaveral |
| B710 | GT-12 | Designated for the USS Wasp this cover was postmarked at Cape Canaveral on both 11th and 15th | Cape Canaveral |
| B711 | GT-12 | Designated for the USS Wasp this cover was postmarked at Cape Canaveral on both 11th and 15th | Cape Canaveral |
| B746 | AS-501 | Designated for the USS York County, this cover was postmarked at Norfolk | Norfolk |
| B751i | AS-502 | Designated for the USS York County, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Chikaskia | USS Chikaskia |
| B758 | AP-7 | Designated for the USS Essex, the cover was postmarked aboard the USNS Vanguard - Only 2 known | Jacksonville |
| B7599a | AP-7 | Designated for the USS Cambria, this cover was postmarked aboard the USS Essex | USS Essex |
| B76012 | AP-7 | Designated for the USS Essex, the cover was postmarked at Kennedy Space Center | Kennedy Space Center |
| B76212 | Designated for the USS Essex, the cover was postmarked at Kennedy Space Center for launch on 11 October | Kennedy Space Center | |
| B773i | AP-8 | Designated for the USS Sandoval, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Guadalcanal. Note the 'A.M.' above year - the only copy known | USS Guadalcanal |
| B784i | AP-9 | Designated for the USNS Vanguard (CC), the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Guadalcanal. | USS Guadalcanal |
| B790 | AP-10 | Designated for the USS Arlington, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Carpenter. | USS Carpenter |
| B797 | AP-10 | Designated for the USS Chilton, the cover was postmark aboard the USS Rich | USS Rich |
| B797 | AP-10 | Designated for the USS Chilton, the cover was postmark aboard the USS Rich on an airmail cover | USS Rich |
| B8011 | AP-11 | Designated for the USS Hornet, the cover was postmark aboard the USS Goldsborough | USS Goldsborough |
| B8049b | AP-11 | Designated for the USS Goldsborough, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Hornet | USS Hornet |
| B806 | AP-11 | Designated for the USS Ozark, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS New | USS New |
| B880 | AP-16 | Designated for the USS Ticonderoga, the cover was postmarked at Kennedy Space Center. A second one2 is also known. | KSC |
| B881 | AP-16 | Designated for the USS Ticonderoga, the cover was postmarked aboard the USS Constellation | USS Constellation |
| B8812 | AP-16 | Designated for the USS Ticonderoga, the cover was postmarked at Kennedy Space Center | KSC |
| B998 | ASTP/FDC | Designed for the Pacific Recovery Force, the cover was used as a FDC for the ASTP stamps | KSC |
| B998 (2nd Example) | ASTP/FDC | Designed for the Pacific Recovery Force, the cover was used as a FDC for the ASTP stamps | KSC |
| B998 | ASTP | Designated for the USS New Orleans (San Francisco), the cover was postmarked in Greenbelt | Greenbelt |
| B998 | ASTP | Designated for the USS New Orleans (San Francisco), the cover was postmarked at Houston on Link-up date 17 July | Houston |
| B998 | ASTP | Late non-ASTP San Francisco postmark | San Francisco |
| B999 | ASTP | Designated for the USS New Orleans (San Francisco), the cover was postmarked at Kennedy Space Center on Link-up date 17 July | Kennedy Space Center |
|
Beck Number |
Mission |
Description of Cachet |
Postmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| B515?ii | ASTP on GT-3 | Rather poor fake Beck GT-3 cachet with a Norfolk postmark for ASTP | Norfolk |
Notes General:
i ) These covers are 'from the collection of John H. Dalton the Secretary of the Navy, 1993-1998. These covers have the "VIP" label that we have seen on some very hard to find covers. We believe that the covers with with VIP labels were sent to a special list of people and not to collectors. Industry, Navy, Contractors, Space and Government officials. In 1968-69, Dalton was serving in the Navy and received Navy Nuclear Power training. He served on USS Blueback SS-581 and USS J C Calhoun SSBN-630'. Source: http://beck.ormurray.com
ii ) The colour is less 'vivid', especially the capsule and the cachet is larger than the genuine version
Notes Other:
1) From the collection of Tom Steiner
2) From the collection of Timothy Preston
3) Thanks to Owen Murray's website with a cover from the collection of Martin Schwebs Rasmussen
4) Thanks to Owen Murray's website
5) From the collection of Randy Constantin
6) From the collection of Martin Schwebs Rasmussen
7) From the collection of Woody Witt
9) Sold on eBay during 2012 a) 2013 b) 2016 c) 2019
10) From the collection of W. Magnus
11) From the collection of Gerard Zonneveld. Note that the cachet is for the Atlantic Fleet whereas the USS Kawishiwi was part of the Pacific Fleet.
12) From the collection of Gerard Zonneveld
13) From the collection of Tony O'Brien
14) From the collection of Lee Kok How
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