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12 787. Mallard drake by Paul Casson. Applied tail curls with chips. OP. Some sap bleed. PWC on bottom. Signed. Made for John indecipherable Jan. 1983. 75-125 788. Pair of Mason Factory Standard Grade bluebills. Both are old repaints. Thin checks. Nail visible on top of each head. 100-200 789. Running yellowlegs c1990. Painted tack eyes and feather detail. 75-125 790. Wading bird c1990. Antiqued. 75-125 791. Racy contemporary preening surf scoter. Excellent original paint and condition. Possibly by the late Fred Anderson Gus Wilsons neighbor in South Portland. 200-400 792. Preening white-winged scoter in the manner of Gus Wilson. 200-300 793. Bufflehead drake. Nicely restored. Few old shallow shot hits. 100-200 794. Well carved and nicely painted black duck circa early 1900s. XOC. Light wear great form. 200-400 795. Bufflehead drake decoy. Factory body with a hunter replaced head in the style of the original. Restored. 75-100 796. Early black duck by A.E. Crowell. Body is worn old gunning repaint. Head possibly replaced. No brand. 200-400 797. Oldsquaw c1880-1900 from LI in very old early in use gunning repaint. 200-400 798. Redhead drake from the St. Clair flats area. Hollow carved with a thin applied bottom board. Repainted. Repair to bill. Painted name on bottom appears to read . D. Murphy. 150-200 799. Early hollow bluebill hen in the manner of Chris Smith. Crusty old gunning paint. Old crack in bill. 150-200 800. Coot decoy. Shadow on a raft design with the central profile sawn from a 2 board. Wear on top of head. Retains the Doc Starr paper inventory label and his painted S 10 note. 150-300 Provenance George Ross Starr collection 801. Unusual and folky mallard. Small seashells used for eyes. Original paint. Chip in the center of lower tail. Bottom has information that attributes the decoy to an unknown Canadian maker. 150-300 802. Hissing brant. Rubs on tip of bill. Bundick carved in bottom. Never rigged. 200-300 803. Goose from PEI. Typical two piece head and bill. Original paint with very light wear. Thin tight crack in bottom and a partial grain check in back. Never rigged. 250-450 804. Hooded merganser drake by Percy Gant 1894- 1963 of Osborneville N.J. Two piece balsa body possibly hollow with a cedar head. XOC. Never rigged. For a similar example see the article on Gant by George Cooke in the July August - 1994 issue of Decoy Magazine. 300-500 805. Eider in old paint. May be by a factory in New Bedford MA that made lathe turned decoys. There is a signed document on the bottom that states that this decoy came from the Crowell family home. Worn paint with chips off tip of bill. 200-400 806. Bufflehead drake by Massachusetts Ken Kirby after a Stevens decoy pattern. Ken Kirby stamp on bottom. 200-300 807. Folky ring-bill drake. Paint appears to be the original with light wear. Rigging removed. 100-200 808. Merganser drake with a leather crest by Hingham Massachusetts Bill Sarni. Bottom has carved W.D. Sarni Hingham MA. 200-300 809. Racy merganser decoy by Ken Kirby. Signed on bottom Ken Kirby. 200-400 810. Tiny working merganser hen from the mid coast of Maine. Body measures only 11 from breast to tip of tail. Inlet head with upswept tail. A.E.W on bottom. 150-200 811. Lot of two half body carvings by Dr. George Ross Starr of Duxbury Mass. Both necks have cracked and been glued. Tip of bill on merganser has been chipped and touched up Both retain the George R. Starr Collection ink stamp and the merganser is dated Dec. 1957. Starr was the author of the early reference Decoys of the Atlantic Flyway. 150-300 812. Red-breasted merganser drake. Canvas over wire frame construction in the classic Carolina style. Bottom has carved DBH. XOC. 200-300 813. Swimming black duck by Charles Seidel of Virginia Beach Virginia. Hollow Delaware River style. XOC. Seidel tag on bottom. 100-200 814. Pair of Wildfowler Factory green winged teal in good OP with light wear and rigging removed. Narrow grain check on the lower left side of the drake. 250-350 815. Mallard hen by the Wildfowler Factory Point Pleasant New Jersey. Head turned slightly to the right. Painted by Keim. Point Pleasant ink stamp. Signed and dated 1970 by Charles Birdsall. 100-200 816. Miniature mallard hen by Capt. Jess Urie. Identified on base with the notation ca 1960 W.P. Graves. 75-100