RED-BREASTED MERGANSER HEN
ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, 1900-1920
wide-bodied with glass eyes and horsehair crest
18 in. long
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER HEN
ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, 1900-1920
wide-bodied with glass eyes and horsehair crest
18 in. long
Steve Miller Collection Sold, James D. Julia Gallery, Fairfield, Maine, 24 August 1985, lot 128
S. and J. Delph, New England Decoys, Exton, Pennsylvania, 1981, pp. 100-101. J. Barnitz et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection:Art of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1988, vol. II, p. 295, no. 181 (illustrated in color, p. 294).
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