Live Auction 16723The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana
EARLY MERGANSER HEN
Lot 1049

EARLY MERGANSER HEN

IRA HUDSON (1876-1949), CHINCOTEAGUE, VIRGINIA, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

Closed10 May 2018

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EARLY MERGANSER HEN
IRA HUDSON (1876-1949), CHINCOTEAGUE, VIRGINIA, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY
Mackey Collection stamped on underside
12 ½ in. long

William J. Mackey, Jr., Belford, New Jersey
Sold, Richard A. Bourne Co., Hyannis, Massachusetts, 17-18 July 1973, lot 113

Specialist note

This early merganser hen may be one of the Hudson decoys sold at a farm estate sale in Gargatha, Virginia, 8 May 1983 (see H. A. Fleckenstein, Jr., "A Day at Gargatha," Southern Decoys of Virginia and the Carolinas, pp. 10-15).