Levy’s Boy & Girl Scout Cachet Covers of the United States

by Jay L. Rogers
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34-1a 34-1a back

34-1a

34-1b

34-1b

34-1c

34-1c

34-1d

34-1d

24th Anniversary

02/08/34 Lewistown, Pennsylvania  Printed  Juniata Valley Council

a. Black  [15]

$18

b. Blue on yellow envelope

$20

c. Printed  blue on yellow envelope & hand colored multicolored

$25

Note: b and c have different 3rd line of text.

February 8, 1934

d. 34-1a label on envelope

$20

34-1.1

34-1.1

$45

24th Anniversary

02/08/34 Washington, District of Columbia  Printed  Black Louis Nix

34-1.2a 34-1.2a 34-1.2a 34-1.2a

34-1.2a

$50

34-1.2b 34-1.2b 34-1.2b

34-1.2b

$50

24th Anniversary

a. Different hand made with printed images glued on,
text in ink.  Omaha, Nebraska Francis Bandhauer[15]

$50

Example:
02/08/34 Signatures of Scouts in Troop 25.
2nd example: 02/09/34 “Edward Strauss Omaha Sea Scout is Governor
for a day” Pictures Strauss in uniform and Life Badge.

b. similar with corner ad handstamp in purple

S.S.S. AK SAR BEN
Sea Scout Ship No. 5
Port of Omaha

$50

34-1.3

34-1.3

$30

1934 Boy Scout Week Label

02/34 Example Sandusky, Ohio Printed label S34-1 Blue, red and black National Council, BSA
On Firelands Area Council, Sandusky, Ohio corner card. Rubber stamped and typed Black  #10 envelope

34-1.4

34-1.4

$25

Crater Lake Council Stationery

02/15/34 example Medford, Oregon  Printed  Blue
Crater Lake Council, Medford, Oregon

34-1.5

34-1.5

$25

Washington's 202nd Birthday

02/22/34 Washington, District of Columbia Rubber stamped
Boy Scout Stamp Club of Washington, District of Columbia
this is cachet 33-5 with ink notation of year

34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a 34-2a

34-2a

34-2 34-2 back 34-2 34-2 back 34-2b 34-2b

34-2b

Old Ironsides In Canal Zone

04/07/34 Black U.S. Frigate Constitution ship cancel

G. Cargill Bernard as the artist, J. M. Barlow as the Cachet Director and Paul D. Barnhard as the District Scout Commisioner.  Sponsor was the Canal Zone Boy Scouts.  [16]

a. Rubber stamped Miguel Locks, Canal Zone
Also on blue envelope
Also Panama Canal on Navy Department Penalty for Private Use postal card.
Also with additional cachets

$20

b. Printed black and shown with additional purple cachet
also Balboa, Canal Zone in P.M. dated 04/02/34
Also Miguel Locks, Canal Zone in A.M. Cristobal, Canal Zone in P.M.
Also Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone in P.M.

$30

34-2.1

34-2.1

$60

The March of Scouting

04/19/34 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rubber stamped Black

34-3

34-3

$60

St. Alphonsus Boy Scouts

05/29/34 Chicago, Illinois  Printed  Black
Troops 885-6-7-9-890 of Chicago  [17]

34-3.1 34-3.1 34-3.1

34-3.1

$20

Duluth Council Stationery

Bulk mail example. 05/07/34, 08/30/34 other examples.

Duluth, Minnesota  Printed  Green On manila #10 envelope.
Duluth Council

34-3.2

34-3.2

$36

Monterey Bay Area Council Stationery

06/01/34 Salinas, California  Printed  Brown Monterey Bay
Area Council, California Other example: 07/11/34 Big Sur, California

34-3.3

34-3.3

$30

Boy Scout Air Dispatch

06/30/34 Mooringsport, Louisiana Mimeographed Black
Norwela Council, Louisiana On Council corner card  #10 envelope
Cover flown from Shreveport, the Council HQ, to Caddo Lake Reservation, the Council Camp,
and then mailed from Mooringsport, the Camp PO.

34-3.4a

34-3.4a

34-3.4b

34-3.4b

34-3.4c
34-3.4c

34-3.4c

34-3.4d

34-3.4d

34-3.4e

34-3.4e

34-3.4f

34-3.4f

National Recovery Act on Council Stationery

NRA "Blue Eagle" cachet in use from mid 1933 through mid 1935.

a. Blue   Printed   National Council, BSA   New York, New York
Example   06/07/34   Blue #7 envelope

$25

b. Black   Printed   National Council, BSA   New York, New York

$25

Example   02/08/35   25th Anniversary - Jamboree slogan meter
Blue #10 envelope

$125

c. Other Councils   Example   Schiff Scout Reservation, National Training
Center   06/17/35   Mendham, New Jersey   Printed   Green   Buff envelope

$25

d. Dan Beard's Home Office   Black on Blue envelope
11/29/34 Suffern, New York Beard used National Council stationery
rubber stamped with his home address.

$40

See the 1934 letter from Dan Beard in Non-cachet US Scout Covers,  L. Letters and Mailings

e. Black   Printed   National Council, BSA   Postage Paid meter New York, New York

$25

f. Blue   Printed   National Council, BSA   New York, New York
Example   precancel   Blue #10 envelope

$25

34-4a

34-4a

34-4b

34-4b

34-4c

34-4c

34-4d

34-4d

34-4e

34-4e

National G.A.R. Encampment

Rochester, New York  Rubber stamped  Stephen Platania
 [A Addenda]

a. Light Violet 08/12/34

$14

b. Green 08/13/34

$14

c. Black 08/14/34

$12

d. Blue 08/12/34

$12

  On yellow envelope 08/15/34

$15

e. Dark Violet 08/16/34

$20

34-4.0

34-4.0

$50

Scout badge F Gosnell Yangtze Patrol Naval Mail Clerk USS Luzon Stationery

09/03/34 New York, New York Yangtze Patrol Printed  black

34-4.1

34-4.1

$50

Camp Man Scout Stationery

09/10/34 Far Rockaway, New York  Printed  Blue and yellow
Example is mailed from home 3 weeks after the end of camp.

34-5

34-5

$25

Boy Scout Circus

11/-/34 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  Printed  black and red

#10 envelope

Central Oklahoma Council

34-6a

34-6

Paul Siple's Birthday

12/18/34 Erie, Pennsylvania Rubber stamped, printed text at top.

a. Two lines of text at top, none at bottom.  Blue

$35

b. Four lines of text rubber stamped at bottom.
Blue and violet (Pictured)

$35

34-7a

34-7a

34-7c

34-7c

Paul Siple's Birthday

12/18/34 Erie, Pennsylvania Rubber stamped Blue, violet and black

a. Bottom text “…BORN AT ERIE, PA…”

$35

b. Bottom text “…of Erie, Pennsylvania…”

$35

c. Typed Text at top “…Boy Scout With Byrd 1928-30…”

$35