Photo By/Credit
Stanley Stearns/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
07/01/1964Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
Image
Stanley Stearns (1926-2013)
Black and white watercolor drawing of Nene geese in their Hawaiian habitat by Stanley Stearns, his second win.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front) - #168629, #168630; Offset (back) - #55048. Colors: Front - Blue, Yellow, and Black; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Robert L. Miller. Engravers: Vignette - Arthur W. Dintaman; Frame - William R. Burnell; Letters - William R. Burnell; Numerals - William R. Burnell. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1964. Issue: 1964 - Thirty-first Duck Stamp (sixth $3 stamp). Quantity Sold: 1,573,155.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1965. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $3. Nene Goose." Back - "Duck Stamps dollars buy wetlands to perpetuate waterfowl. 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>
Black and white watercolor drawing of Nene geese in their Hawaiian habitat by Stanley Stearns, his second win.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front) - #168629, #168630; Offset (back) - #55048. Colors: Front - Blue, Yellow, and Black; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Robert L. Miller. Engravers: Vignette - Arthur W. Dintaman; Frame - William R. Burnell; Letters - William R. Burnell; Numerals - William R. Burnell. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1964. Issue: 1964 - Thirty-first Duck Stamp (sixth $3 stamp). Quantity Sold: 1,573,155.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1965. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $3. Nene Goose." Back - "Duck Stamps dollars buy wetlands to perpetuate waterfowl. 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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