Photo By/Credit
Stanley Stearns/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
07/01/1966Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
Image
Stanley Stearns (1926-2013)
Black and white tempera drawing of whistling swans (now known as tundra swans) by Stanley Stearns, the second artist to win the contest three times.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front)- #169058, #169063; Offset (back) - #55048. Colors: Front - Black, Blue, and Green; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Howard C. Mildner. Engravers: Vignette - Charles A. Brooks; Frame - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless; Letters - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless; Numerals - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1966. Issue: 1966 - Thirty-third Duck Stamp (eighth $3 stamp). Quantity Sold: 1,805,341.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1967. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $3. Whistling Swans. 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 tempera drawing of whistling swans (now known as tundra swans) by Stanley Stearns, the second artist to win the contest three times.
Plates Issued: Intaglio (front)- #169058, #169063; Offset (back) - #55048. Colors: Front - Black, Blue, and Green; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Howard C. Mildner. Engravers: Vignette - Charles A. Brooks; Frame - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless; Letters - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless; Numerals - William R. Burnell and Howard F. Sharpless. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1966. Issue: 1966 - Thirty-third Duck Stamp (eighth $3 stamp). Quantity Sold: 1,805,341.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1967. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $3. Whistling Swans. 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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