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THBRed-Breasted Merganser Drake
About Seller
20 Winter Street
Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
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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LiveFeb 12, 2015 - Feb 13, 2015
Copley Fine Art Auctions cinnie@copleyart.com
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- Lot Description
George Boyd (1873-1941), Seabrook, NH
c. 1910
19 in. long
This bold and racy decoy features a long, wide body with a paddle tail. The delicately carved head is slightly turned to the left with a forward-reaching and uplifted posture. The surface features both concise paint patterns and the artist’s stippled paint on the breast and along the sides. True to the species, Boyd used red glass eyes for this drake. The pencil-thin upturned bill features a carved nail at the tip. From tip to tail the bird measures nineteen inches.This decoy has been in a private collection since the early 1960s and has never previously been offered for sale.
Provenance: Aime and Janis Blouin Collection, acquired c. 1960
Literature: Jim Cullen, "Finely Carved & Nicely Painted: The Life, Art and Decoys of George H. Boyd," Rye, NH, 2009, p. 36, exact decoy illustrated.Copley Fine Art Auctions, "The Winter Sale 2014," Charleston, SC, February 2014, front cover and lots 30 and 31, rigmates illustrated.
Condition: Original paint with even gunning wear, bill scratches, tight neck cracks, a couple tail chips, and original inletted wood strip by the maker in bottom.Condition
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