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1880-1920
GUSN-2590
Wooden carved and painted decoy representing a preening male golden eye duck; painted blue and white, with carved eyes and white wing patches; wings carved in relief.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Blue fountain pen on red-bordered jelly label on bottom of duck: ""Pr. ducks/from/Wiscasset/Me./Durcritan/Golden-/Eye/(male)""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Wilson, Guy (Maker)
ME, USA
6 x 6 1/2 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.807
Maine (United States)
Wiscasset (Lincoln county, Maine)
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