Photo By/Credit
Alderson Magee/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
07/07/1976Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
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Alderson Magee (1929-2016)
India ink scratchboard drawing of a pair of Canada geese and their brood by Alderson Magee of West Hartford, Connecticut. Magee taught himself how to paint, and in 1971 he quit his job as a technical representative for Pratt & Whitney to work on his art full time.
Plates Issued: Intaglio - (front, 2-color giori, black and green) #173029, #173030; Offset - (back) - #59742. Colors: Front - Black and Green; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Peter Cocci. Engravers: Vignette - Thomas R. Hipschin; Frame - Robert G. Culin, Sr.; Letters - Robert G. Culin, Sr. and Numerals - Robert G. Culin, Sr. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1976. Issue: 1976 - Forty-third Duck Stamp (fifth $5 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,170,194.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1977. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $5. Canada Geese." Back - "Buy Duck Stamps. Save wetlands. Send in all bird bands. Sign your Duck Stamp. 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>
India ink scratchboard drawing of a pair of Canada geese and their brood by Alderson Magee of West Hartford, Connecticut. Magee taught himself how to paint, and in 1971 he quit his job as a technical representative for Pratt & Whitney to work on his art full time.
Plates Issued: Intaglio - (front, 2-color giori, black and green) #173029, #173030; Offset - (back) - #59742. Colors: Front - Black and Green; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Peter Cocci. Engravers: Vignette - Thomas R. Hipschin; Frame - Robert G. Culin, Sr.; Letters - Robert G. Culin, Sr. and Numerals - Robert G. Culin, Sr. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1976. Issue: 1976 - Forty-third Duck Stamp (fifth $5 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,170,194.
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1977. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $5. Canada Geese." Back - "Buy Duck Stamps. Save wetlands. Send in all bird bands. Sign your Duck Stamp. 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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