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Group of Three Carved and Painted Wooden Shorebird Decoys: Black Bellied Plover, Hudsonian Curlew, and Peep, Cape May, New Jersey, Circa 1910

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Auction Closed

January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

500 - 800 USD

Lot Details

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Group of Three Carved and Painted Wooden Shorebird Decoys: Black Bellied Plover, Hudsonian Curlew, and Peep

Cape May, New Jersey

Circa 1910


The smallest black bellied plover branded O.C. COLE on its side

Largest Height 6 in.; Length 12 in.;

A similar decoy branded O.C. Cole is pictured in Henry A. Fleckenstein Jr., Shore Bird Decoys, (Exton, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Limited, 1980) fig. 71, p. 69