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1875-1920
GUSN-11392
Carved and painted wooden duck decoy; black flat back; carved tail; black head and bill; white underbelly; a stripe at the top of bill; underside has a round insert of a lead weight and is gouged in various places for hooks and rigging lines.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
Decoy
In script on a jelly label on the bottom of the base, in fountain pen is: Lake Erie/or Ontario/modified Stevens .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Stevens Decoy Factory (Maker)
Weedsport, NY, USA
5 x 5 3/4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1718
New York state (United States)
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