Four Carved and Painted Wood Waterfowl Decoys

Description:

Four Carved and Painted Wood Waterfowl Decoys, America, early to mid-20th century, a merganser hen and drake and a single merganser drake with applied lead weight pads, and a Canada goose, ht. 5 1/4 to 9 1/4, lg. 15 1/2 to 17 3/4 in.

Provenance: These decoys were reportedly used by W.H. Wood (the consignor's grandfather) and his sons at Great Pond, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in the 1920s and 1930s.
Estimate $600-800


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