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THBCanada Goose Decoy, Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949)
Lot 247
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
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Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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- Lot Description
Canada Goose
Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949)
Stratford, CT, c. 1930
26 1/2 in. long
A rare "working" cork-bodied goose decoy by the famed Stratford maker. Shang used pine for the head and bottom board. Of a rigmate, Shang scholar Dixon MacD. Merkt writes, "This goose, once actively gunned over, is another example of Wheeler's ability to transform a utilitarian cork decoy into pleasing sculpture." Only a few working goose decoys by Wheeler have ever been found.
Original paint with gunning wear and flaking to cork.
Provenance: Theodore S. Harmon Collection
Literature: "DecoyMagazine," May/June 1995, p. 35, exact decoy illustrated. Dixon MacD. Merkt, "Shang: A Biography of Charles E. Wheeler," Spanish Fork, UT, 1984, p. 54, rigmate illustrated.Please email condition report requests to colin@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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