A family of ruddy ducks. 



1941-42 Duck Stamp Design 



species of waterfowl featured: Ruddy duck. 



Design: A male and female ruddy duck with their brood swimming at the edge of a marsh. 

 Artist: E. R. Kalmbach, a well-known painter of wildlife subjects, who was also nationally 

 known as the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service's research laboratory at Denver, Colo., 

 before his retirement. 



Philatelic Data 



Color: Brown carmine. 



Designer: Victor S. McCloskey, Jr. 



Engravers: Vignette, Charles A. Brooks; frame, lettering, and numerals. Axel W. Christensen. 



Plates issued- 146271, 146282. 



Inscribed: "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1942." 



First day of sale: ]u\y 1, 1941. 



Quantity sold: 1,439,967. 



Eighth Duck Stamp. 



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