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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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This hollow Illinois River mallard decoy displays all the aspects of the maker's master craftsmanship, including its original rigging. Originally collected in lieu of payment for medical services by an Illinois doctor, this decoy descended to his daughter, the spouse of Jim Fowler, noted zoologist and host of the Emmy Award-winning "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."
Provenance: Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection
Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection
Literature: Stephen O'Brien and Julie Carlson, "Masterworks of the Illinois River," Boston, MA, 2005, p. 115, similar decoys illustrated.
Alan Haid, "Decoys of the Mississippi Flyway," Exton, PA, 1981, p. 172, similar bird illustrated.
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