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Large wooden decoy of a mallard drake with carved detail to body and feathers. Decoy has been re-painted with a shiny green head, brown breast, gray body with blue-tipped wings, and a black tail. A large hole has been drilled lengthwise through the body.
decoys
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Decoy
"Made by Edward Cass Adams / for Analesa / His first piece of / carving" (Pencil script. Edward Cass Adams married Analesa Foss in 1936.)
"Made by Edward Cass / Adams for Analesa (wife) / his first piece of carv / ing. Adams Pt. near Durham, N.H." (Typed on a jelly label by Nina Fletcher Little)
"Carved by Capt. Edward / H. Adams Point / near Durham, N.H. Son, / Cass painted them. Died June 16, 1966, over 100 years old." (Typed on a jelly label by Nina Fletcher Little)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Adams, Edward Cass, 1892-1959 (Carver)
Durham, NH, USA
9 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 7 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1452
New Hampshire (United States)
Adams Point (Strafford county, New Hampshire) [cape]
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