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Very Rare Hollow Carved Bluebill Drake
Lot 309

Very Rare Hollow Carved Bluebill Drake

EUGENE BIRDSALL, LOVELAND TOWN, NEW JERESY, CIRCA 1890

Closed18 January 2008

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Very Rare Hollow Carved Bluebill Drake
Eugene Birdsall, Loveland Town, New Jeresy, circa 1890
Body halves are joined with small dowels
Original paint with fine detail and very minor wear, thin crack in neck
14½ in. long

Guyette and Schmidt, April 2001, lot 202

Specialist note

For a similar decoy see Henry A. Fleckenstein Jr. New Jersey Decoys (Exton, PA, 1983), p. 66.