Lot 2443
Duck Stamp Print, 1935 Mallards Alighting, 8½x5¾" print size on laid paper, signed "Design for First Federal Duck Stamp - J.N. Darling - 1934 -" in pencil at bottom, some archival backed thinning on reverse, otherwise Very Fine, a handsome and scarce example of the First Duck Stamp Print, with approximately 300 printed.Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling (1876-1962), the designer of the first Federal Duck Stamp, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. His greatest enthusiasm was for conservation. In the 1930s, he answered a call from Washington to aid the migratory waterfowl crisis. He served as a member of two committees that examined the crisis, and also was chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, 1934-35. He was one of the leading advocates of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act.
Realized: $900