Description
20 stamps/page * 5 pages. You got 100 stamps in total.
 
This booklet of 20 stamps features four scenes of the alert and playful North American river otter reveling in winter's white landscape.
The original illustrations were rendered in pen and ink, with watercolor in shades of brown for the otters, using black for facial features and crosshatching. The wintry background is white, with blue water, light blue and violet shadows, and black crosshatching.
Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps with artwork from illustrator John Burgoyne.
 
Background: These stamps will be issued October 12th with a first-day city of Otter, Montana, but no "headquarters" first-day ceremony is planned.Further updates on this issue will be posted below the large illustration, with the most recent at the top.
 
The Scott catalogue numbers for this issue are:
5648 Otter in Water
5649 Otter, Tail at Right
5650 Otter, Tail at Left
5651 Otter in Snow
a. Block of 4, #5648-5651
b. Convertible booklet pane of 20, 5 each #5648-5651