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Carved and painted wooden codfish cut from a flat board with some pieces added, and painted in shades of brown and spotted, with lower parts white. The fin is elaborately painted with firm black hair-like extensions (which cod actually possess).
shop signs
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
Carved
Painted
Art
Wood
Hanging
Typed white label affixed to bottom center side: ""Codfish carved and painted by John O. J. Frost/of Marblehead. Hung in shop behind his house/at 11 Pond St. He died in 1929.""
Used At Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Frost, John Orne Johnson, 1852-1928 (Maker)
Marblehead, MA, USA
16 1/4 x 1 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.761
Marblehead (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
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