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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
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An oversize, turned-head decoy with carved bill detail and balsa body. Barber only produced approximately fifty decoys in his lifetime. This is an exceedingly rare preening example by the maker.
Provenance: Private Collection
Literature: Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr., "Antique American Bird Decoys," Boston, MA, 1999, p. 27, item 52, exact decoy illustrated.
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