Figure of herring gull carved in the full round, painted in natural colors, black, gray, yellow bill, on a driftwood base. A stick-up decoy (A); stand (B)
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Branded on underside (twice): ""GEW"". Typed label on base of stand: ""Sea gull, impressed G. E. W. George E. Wallace, Barnegat, N.J. Sold for $1500 at Doule auction Nov. 17, 1982."" ""See Mackey p.202"" added in ink.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.282
Possibly Wallace, George E., d. 1916 (Maker)
Barnegat Bay, NJ, USA
16 x 17 1/4 x 4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.282AB
New Jersey (United States)
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