U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
Cachetmaker: W.B. Heckman
Part of the U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog
by Douglas H. Henkle, AFDCS LM #137,
henkle@pobox.com
(last updated .03-04-2022)
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This page displays World War II patriotic cachets created by
W.B. Heckman (19?? - 19??) of Evanston, IL. None of these Patriotics have been reported as being serviced as First Day Covers (FDC), and no Heckman produced designs have been found that were made for any specific postal released issue.
first name and middle name unknown
Wanted: a 300 bpi / 600 pixel wide (or greater) .jpg scan of any unlisted cachet
(ALSO any cachet marked ***)
Email it to: henkle@pobox.com
Subject for this page: Doug Henkle unlisted W.B. Heckman cachet
(an email with any other subject or with any other graphical format will be ignored IF it has an attachment)
U.S. Scott #nnn = U.S. Scott Catalog number.
mm-dd-yyyy - First Day of Issue
Except as noted by "{A}" (my personal collection), all other displayed covers were found on the Web. Every cover I own or have seen on-line with
these designs is displayed.
S1# = "Lawrence Sherman (1999) - 9660 designs described, with some designs pictured in black and white
Due to the addition of 1400 new cachets merged into the 2nd edition in alphabetical order, all of the Catalog numbers in the 1st edition became
obsolete.
S2# = Lawrence Sherman (2006) - 11060 designs described, with some designs pictured in color
nn1/nn2 = (nn1) page where this cachet is listed, (nn2) page where it is pictured (page
number is in bold). If the nn2 does not appear, that cachet is not pictured.
Note: Descriptions in italics are quoted from one of these books by Lawrence Sherman.
- #384 -- W.B. Heckman (aka Matthew J. Huss Huss #E1a) -- (eBay) / (eBay)
-- Allied victory in Europe [engraved] (overprinted for, and canceled on, VE Day 5-08-1945)
Identified by Sherman as by W.B Heckman, who was also from Evanston, IL. This is an overprinted Huss #E1 (S2#10726). Question is, who overprinted it, Huss or Heckman?
-- [S1#343 p.134/141]
-- [S2#384 p.141]

- #443 -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- America at war / inaugurates / Franklin D. Roosevelt, etc. [postmarked 1/20/45]
-- [S1#393 p.134]
-- [S2#443 p.144]
- #444 -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- America at war / inaugurates / Harry S. Truman, etc. [postmarked 4/12/45]
-- [S1#394 p.134]
-- [S2#444 p.144]
- #445 -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- America at war / mourns / Franklin D. Roosevelt, etc. [postmarked 4/12/45]
-- [S1#395 p.134]
-- [S2#445 p.144]
- #446 -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- America at war / re-elects / Franklin D. Roosevelt, etc. [postmarked 11/7/44]
-- [S1#396 p.134]
-- [S2#446 p.144]
- #466 -- W.B. Heckman -- (DHA) ***
-- America Victorious / Honors / The United States Army
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2#466 p.144]

- #466a -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- America Victorious / Honors / The United States Navy
Pictured in Mellone 1940's Volume 1 as serviced on a #935-33 (was Designer Unknown).
-- [not listed]
-- [not listed]
- #1341 -- W.B. Heckman (aka Matthew J. Huss Huss #E1b -- (eBay)
Capitulation Day [caps] / The United Nations Triumph etc. [engraved]
(overprinted by Huss or Heckman?, and canceled on VE Day 5-08-1945)
-- [S1#1187 p.150]
-- [S2#1341 p.166]
Identified by Sherman as a W.B Heckman design, who was also from Evanston, IL. This is an overprinted
Huss #E1 S2#10726. Question is, who overprinted it, Huss or Heckman?

NIS (Not in Sherman):
I have not found any of the following designs listed in Lawrence Sherman's Catalogs.
- # -- W.B. Heckman -- *** / (eBay)
-- National Aiglon Society / Oakland California (7-04-1935 cancel)
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2# not listed]

- # -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- Odd Port / Cancellation / National Cachet Society / Asiatic Fleet (7-04-1935 cancel)
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2# not listed]

- # -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- U.S.S. / North Carolina / 88-55 / built at the / Navy Yard / Brooklyn, N.Y. / Our First Day (4-09-1941 cancel)
NOT Heckman, ANCS #9 was Eugene L. Mueller --- according to the lists I have, Heckman was not a member of ACE, RCD, or ANCS
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2# not listed]

- # -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- United States Fleet (10-10-1943 cancel)
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2# not listed]

- # -- W.B. Heckman -- ***
-- We are ready / For National Defense / and a 3 Ocean Fleet / The Pirate Ship (8-26-1941 cancel)
-- [S1# not listed]
-- [S2# not listed]

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