1870-1910
GUSN-11321
Wooden carved decoy representing a duck, with a sharp bill, a grey head and breast, black neck and white wings. A black oval painted on its back.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
Decoy
Imprinted into the wood, twice on the bottom of the duck is: H.F. Jones . On a red bordered jelly label, written in fountain pen on the bottom of the duck is the number: 19 .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Jones, H. F. (Maker)
8 x 8 1/2 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1668
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