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1896-1924
GUSN-2591
Carved and painted wooden decoy representing a black duck, with blue wing feathers and yellow bill, and yellow glass eyes.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Blue fountain pen script on jelly label on bottom of duck: ""Mason's/Decoy factory/Premier/[illeg.] ow"" - ptd. 45[in circle]"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Mason's Decoy Factory (Maker)
Detroit, MI, USA
7 2/5 x 5 3/5 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.808
Michigan (United States)
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