Photo By/Credit
Albert Earl Gilbert/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
07/01/1978Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
Image
Albert Earl Gilbert (1939- )
Watercolor painting of a hooded merganser by Albert Earl Gilbert, an internationally known wildlife artist.
Plates Issued: Intaglio - (front - black) #173331, #173333; Offset - #62882 - Yellow, #62883 - Brown, #62884 - Orange, #62885 - Blue, #59742 - Black (back). Colors: Front - Black, Yellow, Orange, Brown, and Blue; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Clarence Holbert. Engravers: Vignette - John S. Wallace, Jr.; Frame - John C. Masure; Letters - John C. Masure; Numerals - John C. Masure. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1978. Issue: 1978 - Forty-fifth Duck Stamp (seventh $5 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,206,421
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1979. Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. $5. Hooded Merganser." 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>
Watercolor painting of a hooded merganser by Albert Earl Gilbert, an internationally known wildlife artist.
Plates Issued: Intaglio - (front - black) #173331, #173333; Offset - #62882 - Yellow, #62883 - Brown, #62884 - Orange, #62885 - Blue, #59742 - Black (back). Colors: Front - Black, Yellow, Orange, Brown, and Blue; Back - Black. Designer/Modeler: Clarence Holbert. Engravers: Vignette - John S. Wallace, Jr.; Frame - John C. Masure; Letters - John C. Masure; Numerals - John C. Masure. First Day of Sale: July 1, 1978. Issue: 1978 - Forty-fifth Duck Stamp (seventh $5 stamp). Quantity Sold: 2,206,421
Inscription: Front - "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1979. Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. $5. Hooded Merganser." 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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