Lot Essay
Many of these sculptures were commissions from the artists and are signed and inscribed to Russell B. Aitken.
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A GROUP OF FIFTY-ONE DECORATIVE CARVED AND PAINTED WATERFOWL SCULPTURES
Comprising: a wood hen and drake and a curlew by Greg Daisey; two mourning doves by de Gavre; three miniature ducks by George de Lodzia; a pair of pelicans, a wild turkey, two screech owls, a flying Canada goose, a flying mallard drake, and a pintail hen and drake by Dan de Mendoza; a ruddy duck drake, a hooded merganser hen and drake, and a stilt by Habbart W. Dean; a group of twenty-one miniatures by Diller and Habbart W. Dean; a heron by Chris Dixon; two red-breasted merganser drakes and a merganser hen and drake by Frank Dobbins; an egret by Drescher; a mallard hen and drake with a display board and a canvasback hen and drake with a display board by Noel L. Dunn (53)
Comprising: a wood hen and drake and a curlew by Greg Daisey; two mourning doves by de Gavre; three miniature ducks by George de Lodzia; a pair of pelicans, a wild turkey, two screech owls, a flying Canada goose, a flying mallard drake, and a pintail hen and drake by Dan de Mendoza; a ruddy duck drake, a hooded merganser hen and drake, and a stilt by Habbart W. Dean; a group of twenty-one miniatures by Diller and Habbart W. Dean; a heron by Chris Dixon; two red-breasted merganser drakes and a merganser hen and drake by Frank Dobbins; an egret by Drescher; a mallard hen and drake with a display board and a canvasback hen and drake with a display board by Noel L. Dunn (53)