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Pembroke, MA 02359
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Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Golden Plover
A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952)
East Harwich, MA, c. 1910
A fine working decoy in breeding plumage.
Original paint and bill, with gunning wear and professional touch-up to right shoulder.
Literature: Adele Earnest, "The Art of the Decoy," West Chester, PA, 1965, p. 55, plate 34, similar decoys illustrated.
Decoys Unlimited, Inc., "Our Annual Summer Decoy Sale," West Barnstable, MA, 2008, lot 508, exact decoy illustrated.
John and Shirley Delph, "New England Decoys," Exton, PA, 1990, p. 145, similar decoy illustrated.
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