Trumpeters. 



1950-51 Duck Stamp Design 



species of waterfowl featured: Trumpeter swan. 



Design: The original sketch, a black and white wash drawing, pictures two trumpeter swans 



flying over the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. 



Artist: Walter A. Weber, of Vienna, Va. (Mr. Weber is the first former duck stamp artist to 



win the competition a second time. His design of the white-fronted goose was used for the 



1944-45 stamp.) 



Philatelic Data 



Color: A brilliant bluish purple. 



Designers: Central design by Walter A. Weber; frame and lettering by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr. 



Engravers: Vignette, Arthur A. Dintaman; frame, lettering, and numerals, Reuben K. Barrick. 



Plates issued: 161533, 161534, 161535, 161536. 



Inscribed- "U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1951. $2." 



First day of sale: ]u\y 1, 1950. 



Quantity sold: 1,903,644. 



Seventeenth Duck Stamp; second $2 stamp. 



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