About This Stamp
Issued on March 11, 1991, the Fawn definitive satisfied the new postcard rate, with a design by Peter Cocci.
Young deer are called calves or fawns. The fawn depicted on the stamp is a White-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus), a medium-sized deer found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
The White-tailed deer is the state mammal (or game mammal) of Wisconsin (1957), Pennsylvania (1959), South Carolina (1972), Mississippi (1974), Nebraska (1981), Illinois (1982), New Hampshire (1983), Ohio (1988), Oklahoma (1990), Arkansas (1993), and Michigan (1997).
The White-tailed Deer was also depicted on the American Wildlife booklet stamp.
First Day of Issue Ceremony
First Day of Issue Date: March 11, 1991
First Day of Issue Location: TBA