There are many Scout cachets that are known applied only to the backs of covers. Where the front also
bears a different but known cachet, the Levy # is referenced. Some covers are cacheted front as well as
back, but only the backs have a Scouting reference. Finally, some labels are used as seals on the back of
covers that bear no cachet on the front.
Front Back
Censored cover, New York to Bern, Switzerland, with S14-2 label tied on back.
11/06/15
New York, NY
Black corner & Swiss cachet on front.
Blue envelope
Back cancelled 11/22/15
Bern, Switzerland.
This is the earliest known US Boy Scout label.
See S14-2 in the Labels Section.
Also see 23-1 in the 1920s section of Additions.
Ex Walter Grob. Grob's "World Scouting" was a 1900 - 1945 chronological 123 page cover collection
with the likes of a letter from "Scouts Camp, Brownsea Island, Poole", dated 4 Aug. 07, in Baden-Powell's
own hand, as well as thirteen 1944 Warsaw sewer covers. A central theme was Scout labels on cover.
60 to 100 years ago, advertising stamps, poster stamps & labels were a more important part of philately.
Front Back
13th Anniversary & First Day of Boy Scout Week
02/08/23
Grand Forks, ND
Galaxy Precancel Co., Grand Forks, ND
On #U458 stamped envelope
Used as seals on the back are two copies of S22-1, the earliest known National Council Label.
Front Back
14th Anniversary, BSA Yakima Council Advertising
02/08/24
Yakima, WA
Printed
Black corner on front
Purple cachet on back
Owners of the advertised businesses are presumably Yakima Council members.
Front Back
National Council Air Mail Corner with S28-3 Label on Back
12/06/28
New York, NY
Printed
Red & blue
Used as seal on back is Label S28-3. See it in the Labels section of Additions.
It is unrecorded on a cover front.
Cover sides & top slit open
Cover to World Jamboree With S29-2 19th Anniversary Label as Seal on Back
07/24/29
New Orleans, LA
Printed
Multicolored
See it in the Labels section of the Print Catalog.
It is unrecorded on a cover front.
See #29-2.1, a 1929 cover, in Additions, 1920s Decade.
Ex Walter Grob
Front Back
With S30-1 Boy Scouts of America 20th Anniversary Label Tied on Back
02/03/30
Pittsfield, MA
Printed
Multicolored
See it in the Labels section of the Print Catalog.
It is unrecorded on a 1930 cover front.
See #33-4.1, a 1933 cover, in Additions, 1930s Decade.
Front Back
30-8 Armistice Day with 30-10a Girl Scouts Welcome Byrd ! on Back
30-8 with Red cachet & Red cancel.
Vallie Mae Harris sent this from Bartlesville, OK to Stoutzenberg in Maplewood, MO on 11/11/30.
Stoutzenberg applied the 2nd cachet & returned it to Harris from St. Louis on 11/14/30.
The 11/15/30 black Bartlesville cancel on the back is a "received backstamp".
See the Print Catalog for cachet descriptions.
Front Back
30-8 Armistice Day with 30-10a Girl Scouts Welcome Byrd ! on Back
30-8 with Black cachet & Green cancel.
Vallie Mae Harris sent this from Bartlesville, OK to Stoutzenberg in Maplewood, MO on 11/11/30.
Stoutzenberg applied the 30-10a cachet, along with two others, & returned it to Harris from St. Louis
on 11/14/30. See the Print Catalog for cachet descriptions.
1930 Front 1940 Front Back
Cattaraugus Cutlery Company Advertising Cover
12/31/30
Little Valley, NY
Printed
Multicolored
Window envelope
Image c.1915
10/25/40
Santa Monica, CA
Jay Dunn added his own corner address to an unused
"The Knife with the Compass" cover and posted it.
Front Back
Cattaraugus Cutlery Company Advertising Cover
07/22/32
Little Valley, NY
Printed
Red & black
#10 "Trans Opake" window envelope
Cattaraugus Cutlery was one of the earliest manufacturers of Boy Scout pocket knives.
Front Back
The Boston Store Advertising Cover
01/19/38
Phoenix, AZ
Printed
Blue
#10 envelope
Official Phoenix Outfitters Boy Scouts of America.
Front Back
Boy Scout Mail with Union Council Silver Anniversary Cachet on Back
05/02/39
Elizabeth, NJ
Rubber stamped
Black
Levy #38-2
Cachet not yet reported on cover front.
Also on back is Label S39-1.
Front Back
Mid-Valley Council Corner with S44-1 Label on Back
12/02/39
Peckville, PA
Rubber stamped
Purple
Also Used as seal on back is Label S44-1.
It is unknown on a cover front.
The Print Catalog
lists 1944 as the first known year of use. This cover shows that year to be 1939.
Front Back
FDC 1950 Jamboree Boy Scout Stamp
06/30/50
Valley Forge, PA
Mimeographed
Orange Front Green Back
Levy #50FD-32
Front Back
Count Me In
Bristol Council, Bristol, CT
12/52
Bristol, CT
Printed & folded self mailer
Red & Blue
Levy #52-11
See it in the Additions 1950s section.
Front Back
1953 3rd National Jamboree
07/17/53
Santa Ana, CA
Rubber Stamped
Black
National Council, BSA
Levy #53-15b on #7¾ envelope with open sides. Back is Blue & Printed. The sheet the
cover was made from was printed by SOSSI. The same sheet was used to make #53-11a, b, c;
53-12a, b; 53-15a, b, c, d, e, & 57-53.4.
Front Back
8th World Jamboree Promotion
01/26/55
Buffalo, NY
Printed
Red, blue & yellow
Scouts on Stamps Society
Levy #55-0.3 See it in the Additions 1950s section.
Front Back
Region One Annual Meeting Promotion
09/57
Probably mailed a few weeks prior to 09/28/57
Rutland, VT
Printed
Blue
Region One, Boy Scouts of America, Rutland, VT
6"x9" card
See 57-55.1 in " 1950s" Decade.
Front Back
200th Anniversary of Westminster, MA
07/15/59
Westminster, MA
Printed
Black
Troop 33, Westminster, MA
Front Back
Fort Niagara Bicentennial
07/23/59
Youngstown, NY
Printed
Backs Rubber stamped
Blue
Troop 44, Newfane, NY
a. Red front
b. Blue front
Front Back
25th Anniversary Golden Gate Bridge
05/27/62
San Francisco, CA
Printed
Red
Pack 122, San Francisco, CA
Front Back
World Bureau Stamp Scheme
example
e.
#63-47
12/07/63
Printed
Violet
a.
#63-14 05/03/63 Black
b.
#63-26 06/04/63 Green
c.
#63-27 06/20/63 Green
d.
#63-36 08/17/63 Violet
e.
#63-48 12/07/63 Violet
Also see 62-83
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