DIMENSIONS:
14 ½" Length x 6" Depth x 6" Height
Weight: 1 lb. 8 oz.
DESCRIPTION:
Offered for your review and consideration is this particularly early, hand carved and hand painted early 20th century American folk art antique sporting duck decoy, fashioned from two pieces of solid white cedar, with one piece used to carve the head and bill, while the other larger piece was used to realize the solid wood body of the duck. The early 20th century antique duck decoy has many of the characteristics and design hallmarks of earlier American duck decoy fabrication, with the decoy leaning more toward a slightly abstracted, folk art, primitive approach, as opposed to the more naturalistic, later American duck sporting decoys of the mid to late 20th century. This American black headed duck has a thin, finely carved long bill and its head is painted in a deep sepia brown, rather than straight black. It's body is painted in black, with mottled grayish-white spots dabbled over its rear plumage. The duck has a spotted, variegated white chest. There's some minimal paint loss around its bill. The duck has yellow glass eyes, bottom lead ballast affixed to its baseplate and a looped leather tether cord eye hook, for attaching the tether cord for easy retrieval after use from a pond, stream or river. In unadulterated antique condition. It remains exactly as it was discovered and in the same condition as when it was removed from the central Massachusetts home it was found in. Great form and great original painted surfaces make a great antique, period American sporting duck decoy. Very handsome.
CONDITION:
Good to Very Good overall antique condition.