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Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
Feb 12, 2015 - Feb 12, 2015
This decoy was hunted off the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay near Parker's Island.
William J. Mackey, Jr., in his pioneering decoy collecting book, "American Bird Decoys," writes that Hudson was, “the most prolific and best commercial decoy maker Virginia ever produced.”
Provenance: Brice Davis Rig, purchased directly from Hudson as part of a rig of twelve decoys.
By descent in the family to the current owner
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