Painted Wood and Canvas Canada Goose Decoy

Description:

Painted Wood and Canvas Canada Goose Decoy, George Boyd (1873-1941),Seabrook, New Hampshire, canvas over frame body construction with wooden head, tail, and breast, tack eyes, ht. 13, lg. 26 3/4 in.

Note: A typed label on the base indicates the goose was purchased from well-known New Hampshire dealers Winthrop and Margaret Scott (Scotty) Carter in 1982, also with an impressed black ink duck stamp with "JACKSON PARKER" indicating it was once in the collection of avid decoy collector Jackson Parker.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Original paint with flaking over the tacks holding the canvas to the frame; some minor fraying to the canvas in a few places around base edge and some tacks; some spots of paint loss on top of the head.

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