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1875-1910
GUSN-11373
Wooden carved and painted decoy representing a goose standing on two dowel legs. It has a long neck, solid body carved from one piece and a wood stand. The eyes were made from shoe buttons and the head is detachable and on a peg. It has white painted cheeks and underbelly, and a brown body with incised(?) white feather marks.
decoys
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decoys
Wood
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Decoy
On orange tape at the bottom of the base, written in ballpoint is: Charles Hart/Gloucester, Ma.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hart, Charles, Mr. (Maker)
Gloucester, MA, USA
24 3/8 x 7 1/4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1705
Massachusetts (United States)
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