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THBRunning Curlew
About Seller
65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
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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LiveJul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
Copley Fine Art Auctions cinnie@copleyart.com
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- Lot Description
Nathan F. Cobb, Jr. (1825-1905), Cobb Island, VA, c. 1880
This bold decoy features the classic Cobb tail split, an original oak bill, and black glass eyes within carved eye grooves. While Cobb curlew decoys are rare, this bird with its original paint and bill is a particularly noteworthy example. This early gunning decoy has impeccable provenance, coming directly to the consignor from renowned decoy collector William J. Mackey, Jr. in the 1960s. The underside of this decoy displays the maker?s large serifed ?N.?
Provenance: William J. Mackey, Jr. Collection
William H. Purnell, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above in 1968Literature: Robert Shaw, "Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D.," Houston, TX, 1992, p. 83, rigmate illustrated.
Robert Shaw, "Bird Decoys of North America," New York, NY, 2010, p. 214, rigmate illustrated.Condition
Original paint with gunning wear, age lines, a crack in bill, and roughness on the tip of bill.
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