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THBEider Hen
About Seller
65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
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
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About Auction
LiveJul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
Copley Fine Art Auctions cinnie@copleyart.com
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- Lot Description
Capt. Merritt P. Pinkham (1861-1947), Seguin Island, ME, c. 1900
An oversize Down East sea duck decoy with black glass eyes, an inletted head, and an oval George R. Starr Collection ink stamp on the bottom.
Merritt Pinkham was the lighthouse keeper on Seguin Island in Maine during the Great Storm of 1898 when a schooner shipwrecked on the island. Starr writes, "The keeper of the Seguin Light was a friend of [J. Allen Drinkwater's, (1866-1952)] named Captain Pinkham. By 1900 he had finally salvaged the schooner's pine bowsprit, made the eider decoys out of the wood, and sold them to Allen."
Provenance: J. Allen Drinkwater Rig
Dr. George Ross Starr Collection
Private CollectionLiterature: George Ross Starr, Jr., M.D., "Decoys of the Atlantic Flyway," New York, NY, 1974, p. 124 and color plate 13, rigmate illustrated.
Condition
Original paint with possible later white accents. Worn to the wood in places with gunning wear, and a couple tight cracks, one of which has a wooden patch by the maker.
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