BLACK DUCK, BLAIR SCHOOL

VERY FINE BLACK DUCK, Blair School. Very good professionally restored condition. Painted feather detail. Retains tack eyes. Bill with carved mandible. Pad weight and leather rigging. Retains" Jack Mor

VERY EARLY BLACK DUCK, possibly Blair School, Philadelphia, PA, circa late 1800's. Racey carving in good working paint and structural condition. Two-pice hollow construction. Carved in a swimming posi

VERY EARLY BLACK DUCK, possibly Blair School, Philadelphia, PA, circa late 1800's. Racey carving in good working paint and structural condition with strengthening to neck cracks. Two-pice hollow const

VERY EARLY BLACK DUCK, Blair school, Philadelphia, PA. Very old working paint in good condition. Very good structural condition. Hollow construction. Retains tack eyes, pad weight and leather rigging.

VERY EARLY BLACK DUCK, Blair School style. Very old working paint, circa late 1800's, and very good structural condition. Old repair at base of neck. Overall length is approximately 17 inches. Retains

VERY EARLY BLACK DUCK, probably Blair school, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1900. Good paint with restoration to areas. Good structural condition. Head turned slightly right. Numerous nails securing top hal

EARLY BLACK DUCK, Lower Delaware River. Very good original paint and structural condition with some minor in-use wear. Some paint flaking under tail. Blair school influence. Bill inset into face. Stre

RARE BLACK DUCK by John Blair, Jr., Philadelphia, PA (1881-1953). Swimming model in very good restored condition. Glass eyes added. Retains large pad weight. Overall length is approximately 18 inches.

BLACK DUCK, Tuckerton school, in excellent original paint and unused condition. Hollow construction. Fine detailed painted feather work over body. Very fine paint ticking to head area. Retains inlet w

FINE BLACK DUCK, Florence School, possibly Larry McLaughlin, Edgely, PA., with paint by Claude Trader. Very good structural condition. Hollow construction. Carved feather detail to back with raised ca

TWO DECOYS20th Century1) Stratford School black duck, possibly by Ben Holmes. Hollow-carved. Glass eyes. Repainted. Length 18".2) Bufflehead drake. Signed “R.J. Nelson 79”. Length 11&

Framed photograph from Edwin Levick of New York showing the New York Yacht Club. School Yacht "Black Duck", a "New York Forty", a one design of the New York Yacht Club. She is shown under full sail, h

Mothegan School Maine. The two black ducks having nice form with early painted surface. L16 1/4" L15 1/4" Sold from the collection of a Charleston, South Carolina gentleman.

TWO MINIATURE BLACK DUCKS by John Young, Stockton, NJ. Excellent original paint and condition. One is a preener, dated 1997. The other is carved in the Blair style and dated 1996. Intricate paint patt

Circa 1900, Monhegan School Maine. Each having nice form, one having nice early painted surface and the black duck with newer painted surface. The painted Pintail decoy branded JL at the base and sign

20th Century Chinese Peasant Painting School, 2 ptgs. Ducks and Chickens, gouaches on black background, 16 x 21.5 inches, framed 20 x 28 inches

SPORTING ART SCHOOL, A SCULPTURE, "Pintail Ducks in Flight," 20TH CENTURY, bronze with dark brown patina, bearing the name, "BARYE," at base, on a black marble oval stand. Height: 18 1/2" Width: 14 1/

Rare oversize black duck, Leonard Pryor, Chesapeake City, Maryland, 1st quarter 20th century. Measures 17" long x 7.5" wide. Two piece body. Literature: "Decoys of the Mid Atlantic Region," Henry Flec

Black duck, Stevens Brothers, Weedsport, New York, last quarter 19th century. Glass eyes. Inlayed lead weight and line staple. The ink stamp of Ha. Stevens on underside. Head swivels as it should. Mea

Black duck, Ward Brothers, Crisfield, Maryland. Hollow carved shooting stool model with head turned approximate 45 degrees. Signed and dated 1965 on underside. Measures 14.5" long.

VERY FINE BLACK DUCK attributed to Lysander Sherman, Marshfield, MA, circa 1930s. Very good original paint and structural condition. Some minor wear to tail edges and top of head. Head has been reset.

Craddockville, VA, glass eyes, hollow body, excellent original paint with wonderful subtle feather detail, beautiful form in preening position, relief carved & raised wingtip, makers brand on bottom,

Hollow Nantucket Black Duck Nantucket, MA, c. 1850 15 1/2 in. long A hollow black duck with a thin tail and incised eye and bill detail. This apparently unique carving has an applied bottom board, a f

Joseph Lincoln (?) Black Duck decoy, from fine NYC estate with others we are selling. Has receipt from William Doyle Galleries in NYC from 1981, measures 16.5" front to back,nice old paint.