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1875-1920
GUSN-11387
A very large carved and painted wooden decoy, painted black with white highlighting and eyes of tacks. Dowel constructed head and a square insert. Broken leather straps on th bottom and at both ends.
decoys
pine (wood)
decoys
Pine
Tacked
Painted
Carved
Decoy
In script on a jelly label with a fountain pen on the side of the duck is: Eider../duck -/Loomer -
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 x 10 1/4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1713
Maine (United States)
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