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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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Jul 24, 2016 - Jul 25, 2016
Open-Billed, Rocking-Head Black Duck
Augustus "Gus" Aaron Wilson (1864-1950)
South Portland, ME, c. 1930
A famous related rocking-head example with a closed bill is housed in the Shelburne Museum and is illustrated in Delph's "New England Decoys."
Excellent original paint with minimal wear and some original imperfections in wood.
Literature: John and Shirley Delph, "New England Decoys," Exton, PA, 1990, p. 25, similar decoy illustrated.
Joe Engers, ed. "The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys," San Diego, CA, 1990, p. 36, similar decoys illustrated.
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