Sale 1861
New York
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19 January 2007
Price realised
USD 50,400
Estimate
AN EXCEPTIONAL RIG OF NINE SHOREBIRDS Attributed to Charles Fulcher (1890-1939). Stacy, North Carolina. First Quarter, 20th Century. Mounted on a driftwood log Original paint with minor wear and a few minor cracks and wormholes in some. 20 in. high, 50 in. long
Provenance
Purchased from Adele Earnest
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Literature
Adele Earnest, Folk Art In America, A Personal View (Exton, PA, 1984), pp. 138-139 (Illustrated).
For related examples, see Joe Engers, ed., The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys (San Diego, 1990), pp. 174, 182.
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