Buffleheads aloft. 



1948-49 Duck Stamp Design 



species of waterfowl featured: Bufflehead. 



Design: Three buffleheads, two male and one female, in flight. 



Artist: Maynard Reece, staff artist and museum assistant, Iowa State Department of History 



and Archives, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Philatelic Data 



Color: A brilliant light blue. 



Designers: Central design by Maynard Reece; frame and lettering by Robert L. Miller, Jr. 



Engravers: Vignette by Arthur W. Dintaman; frame, lettering, and numeral by Axel W. 



Christensen. 



Plates issued: 160099, 160100, 160101, 160102. 



Inscribed: "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1949." 



First day of sale: ]u\\ 1, 1948. 



Quantity sold: 2,127,598. 



Fifteenth Duck Stamp. 



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