Live Auction 16723The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana
RARE HOLLOW-CARVED CANADA GOOSE
Lot 1043

RARE HOLLOW-CARVED CANADA GOOSE

CAPTAIN JESSE BIRDSALL (1852-1929), BARNEGAT, NEW JERSEY, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed10 May 2018

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RARE HOLLOW-CARVED CANADA GOOSE
CAPTAIN JESSE BIRDSALL (1852-1929), BARNEGAT, NEW JERSEY, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
underside inscribed Captain Jesse Birdsall/ Barnegat N.J./ 1880-1900
23 in. long

William J. Mackey, Jr., Belford, New Jersey
Sold, Richard A. Bourne Co., Hyannis, Massachusetts, 21 August 1973, lot 104 (see Decoy Index for original cataloguing)

Specialist note

Renowned folk art patron and decoy enthusiast Adele Earnest considered Birdsall geese to be the "epitome of folk art: the happy union of use and beauty; life and art" (J. Barnitz et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1988, vol. II, p. 296). With its hollow construction and wide, flat bottom, this goose is a wonderful example of Birdsall's beautiful, high-quality and effective decoys.