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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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Jul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
An exemplary running yellowlegs, this decoy displays painted tack eyes and superb paint.
Provenance: Ralph Lasbury Collection
Andi and David Fischer Collection
Private Collection, Florida
Literature: Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., "North American Decoys at Auction," St. Michaels, MD, July 29-30, 2004, lot 174, exact decoy illustrated.
Adele Earnest, "The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings," New York, NY, 1965, pp. 170 and 171, plates 145 and 147, similar decoy illustrated.
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