Need Help Identifying 1935 Duck Stamp Signed/Numbered Print

I recently purchased this framed print at auction, and I'm having trouble identifying it. Can anyone please help me out? I'd really like to know exactly what I have here.

It's a signed/numbered print of an edition of 250. The dimensions are approx 2 ft x 3 ft.

If you need more pictures, let me know. I have scoured the internet searches and am unable to come up with anything at all. I can't make out the signature (scribble) and there is no information on the back of the frame.

My best guess is that it is an interpretation of the 1935 duck stamp? It's not exactly the same, it's reversed, and it's in color.

Please help me out here. Thanks!

#RW4

No it isn't RW4. If anything, it's reverse RW1. Take another look.

Any real help with this from anyone?

Guessing, but it may have been an entry in the contest for the design of the stamp (possibly not the winner?).

I can't read/make out the "scribbled" autograph either but J. N. Darling was the artist for the first stamp which was good until June 30, 1935. Is he possibly the signer?

Quick look...assumed green was the RW4.....
BUT....seems like you know everything already.

Why dont you ask who you bought it from???

What's the year in the "VOID AFTER" line? I can't make it out from your picture.

It does look like a version of the design for 1935, but the date in the void line looks later. Perhaps it was a model for a later stamp proposal. I would check with Sam Houston Philatelics since they were once known for anything and everything having to do with Duck Stamps. I see they have an ad in the duck stamp section of the Specialized as "Sam Houston Duck Co." Bob Dumaine is the head honcho and is very savvy on this kind of stuff. If you check with him/them, let us know what he tells you.

I just visited their website, and they have taken some drastic reductions on duck prints and artwork. Eg. was $2000 now $650. Like that.

From the National Postal Museum: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/exhi...rtistic.html