National Wildlife Federation (USA)

1982;







1984;

Got these ones in two blocks of four but even though they have dates on I have no idea when these were issued as the dates are; Black Brant 1960, Common Eider 1966, Mottled Duck 1961 and Canvas Back 1968 on 1st one, three repeated on 2nd one with Wood Duck 1968.

guyana1230, they are blocks of 4 from the 1968 Water Birds pane from the National Wildlife Federation. I don't think I have one of these in my accumulation, as I normally don't notate the specialty issues, only the general national NWF issues. But it should be something like a pane of 7x7 stamps. I do know there are 5 different designs, so normally collected either as a strip of 5 or blocks of 6 to show all 5 designs. But your 2 blocks do cover all 5 different stamps.

Nice. The NWF Water Birds panes are not commonly seen (at least not for me, anyway). Thanks for posting the pics. For you selvedge collectors, the panes have very nice/colorful NWF banners/texts on the top selvedge, typical of NWF panes. The selvedge will ID the issue year.

I didn't check, but the different year dates on the stamps likely indicates when the design was originally used in the general national NWF pane (which covers different types of wildlife, not just water birds).