Photo By/Credit
Stanley Stearns/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
10/06/2021Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
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Stanley Stearns (1926-2013)
Ink and pencil drawing on scratchboard of blue geese by Stanley Stearns of Chestertown, Md.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front) - #165282, #165283, #165284, #165285; Offset (back) - #52412. Colors: Front - Blue; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Robert L. Miller. Engravers: Vignette - Richard M. Bower; Frame - Robert J. Jones; Letters - Robert J. Jones; Numerals - Robert J. Jones. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1955. Issue: 1955- Twenty-Second Duck Stamp (seventh $2 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,369,940.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1941. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $2. Blue-geese." Back - "It is unlawful to hunt waterfowl unless you sign your name in ink on the face of this stamp."
Images of the stamp are copyrighted. To use the image on a product that will be produced and sold, you must apply for, and be accepted as, a Licensee. <https://www.fws.gov/service/license-duck-stamps-or-junior-duck-stamp-imagery>
Ink and pencil drawing on scratchboard of blue geese by Stanley Stearns of Chestertown, Md.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front) - #165282, #165283, #165284, #165285; Offset (back) - #52412. Colors: Front - Blue; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Robert L. Miller. Engravers: Vignette - Richard M. Bower; Frame - Robert J. Jones; Letters - Robert J. Jones; Numerals - Robert J. Jones. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1955. Issue: 1955- Twenty-Second Duck Stamp (seventh $2 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,369,940.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1941. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $2. Blue-geese." Back - "It is unlawful to hunt waterfowl unless you sign your name in ink on the face of this stamp."
Images of the stamp are copyrighted. To use the image on a product that will be produced and sold, you must apply for, and be accepted as, a Licensee. <https://www.fws.gov/service/license-duck-stamps-or-junior-duck-stamp-imagery>
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