SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy

SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy

SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy
SCARCE "HEN CHALLENGE GRADE CANVASBACK" with 100% ORIGINAL SWIRLING MASON PAINT!! AWESOME THICK BRUSH MARKS with an INCREDIBLE PATINA!! Original & Gorgeous Swirling Paint Detail with the Awesome and Hard-to-Come By BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL FEATHER CURLS, SWATHED SPECULUMS with a NEAT BURNISHED PATINA that is THICK, DRY, TEXTURED & RICH WITH AGE!!! Vintage Turn of the Century Glass Eye "Challenge" Grade DECOY with AWESOME HEAD & BILL PAINT!!! EXCELLENT & TYPICAL OUTSTANDING PAINT PATTERN, BRUSH MARKS, PAINT SWIRLS, SPECULUMS, FEATHER CURLS ETC.

WHEN YOU ARE HOLDING IT YOU ARE EVEN SURPRISED BY HOW PERFECT & AUTHENTIC IT IS!! SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy. C1905 "MASON FACTORY" CHALLENGE GRADE. HEN CANVASBACK, Wood Duck Decoy.

(Collection of a Late and Great Sterling Heights, Michigan Hunter, Carver and Collector). The CHALLENGE GRADE GLASS EYE DECOYS were the MIDDLE-ENTRY MODEL of DECOY in Mason's PRODUCT LINE! PERFECT PAINT WITH ALL OF THE MASON PAINT SWIRLS, FEATHER CURLS, WING "SWOOSH" PAINT, BREAST "STIPPLING" and FINELY BRUSHED HEAD PAINT DETAIL! Perfect Paint Following All of the Mason Brush Marks Exactly... INCLUDING THE AWESOME BREAST "STIPPLING" & "FEATHER DETAILING"!

INCREDIBLE PAINT DETAIL & ORIGINAL, HAND-POURED, IMPORTED RED GLASS EYES!! MASON HEN CANVASBACK in this BEAUTIFUL CONDITION ARE HARD to COME BY IN 100% ORIGINAL CONDITION!

ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING & EXCEPTIONAL PATINA to the "BURNISHED FROM AGE" and VERY MUCH "GLOWING" SURFACE to this GORGEOUS ANTIQUE FACTORY CANVASBACK DUCK DECOY! I CAN'T ENCOURAGE YOU ENOUGH to USE the ZOOM FEATURE in this LISTING to GET a SUPER CLOSE-UP of the SWIRLING MASON PAINT! GORGEOUS "FEATHER CURLS" on the BODY and FEATHER DETAIL to the WING PRIMARIES and TAIL FEATHER PAINT!

110+ YEAR OLD DECOY with AN OUTSTANDING PAINT-TEXTURED, "RICH", BURNISHED from AGE, PATINA! The Bill and Tail on this Canvasback are Beautiful with Exceptional Paint Brush Swirls!! THE BEAUTIFUL & ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS & PAINT SWIRLS & THICK FEATHERED PAINT MAKES THIS a NICE DECOY to FIND.... And QUITE SCARCE CHALLENGE GRADE HEN! EASILY THESE CHALLENGE GRADE DECOYS ARE THE MOST REALISTIC PROPORTIONED DECOYS IN THE ENTIRE LINE OF MASON WOOD DECOYS!

BEAUTIFUL PAINT BRUSH MARKS & SWIRLS, ESPECIALLY THE BACK, WING, TAIL and "DAUBED" HEAD, BREAST AND SIDE PAINT!!! RARE with NO NECK PUTTY AS THE JOINT WAS SO PERFECT THEY DIDN'T USE ANY! It's Not Often You Come Across VERY NICE, ORIGINAL & MINT STRUCTURAL CONDITION MASON DECOYS; THAT ESPECIALLY GOES FOR 110-YEAR OLD CHALLENGE GRADE HEN CANVASBACK DUCK DECOYS!!! CHALLENGE GRADE CANVASBACK DECOYS HAVE the SAME BEAUTIFUL LINES as a WILD CANVASBACK, BUT Much SOUGHT AFTER "CHALLENGE GRADE" HEN VERSIONS are SCARCE and SEEN INFREQUENTLY!! NICE 100% ORIGINAL CONDITION with a TYPICAL and ORIGINAL MASON CHECK RUNNING THE LENGTH of the DECOY'S BOTTOM!!

This Decoy Also Has All of the Great 100% Original Paint Brush Swirls & Feathering From The Thick & Beautiful Original Paint!! Gorgeous Detail Paint to the Entire Decoy that was Done By a Mason Artist Over a Century Ago! This Decoy Also has the Tremendous and Much Sought After Great Paint Brush Swirls From The Thick, Original Paint....

Swooshing "SPECULUMS" on the WINGS! EXCEPTIONAL PATINA to the "BURNISHED FROM AGE" and VERY MUCH "GLOWING" SURFACE to this GORGEOUS ANTIQUE FACTORY "KING OF DUCKS" DUCK DECOY! If You Like Old Gunning Decoys That Did What They Were Made To Do and Show The Obvious Wear But Look Great, Here is a Great Decoy For Your Collection! This Scarce HEN CANVASBACK Decoy Measures 16" long x 5-5/8" wide x 7-1/2 tall -and- Weighs 2-lbs.

THAT IS FANTASTIC & Makes for a Nice, Challenge Grade Solid-Bodied cedar Duck decoy Over a Century Old!!! The Original Lead Ballast Weights are Perfectly Intact and Accounts for 8-ozs. This Decoy Clearly came from Climate -Controlled, Natural and Direct Light-Free Collections it was Retired Into! This 111+ year old decoy was made by the Mason Decoy Factory in Detroit, Michigan and is a Challenge Grade, Glass Eye, HEN CANVASBACK Duck Decoy.

The Glass Eye standard Grade was the lead in to the Challenge Grade like this Awesome decoy and this Model was One Notch Below the Premier Grade or Model, which was their Top-of-the-Line decoy. The Mason Factory wooden decoys were made with outstanding quality control and unsurpassed craftsmanship in this early industry. The premier was carved hollow and hand-made and hand-painted not long after the turn of the century and hollow decoys were a special order for the challenge grade. Of the several wood decoy factories in Detroit, Mason would outlive them all and have a 30 year existence. This decoy is structurally in mint original condition structurally and this decoy has been in a Michigan collection and ownership since it was made over a Century ago. The Original Red Glass Eyes are perfectly intact and look awesome and defect free. This decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and the decoy is in perfect structural condition other than a very normal surface check to the belly from when the the lead ballast was drilled in. This decoy displays wonderfully and was prominently featured in the collector that owned it. The original Glass Eyes are perfectly intact from the day it was gunned over and this decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and there isn't a chip on this beautiful decoy.

There a a couple scattered shot marks and wear to the lower left side but if anything it adds the splendid aura of this century old decoy. This decoy displays wonderfully and this decoy has spent its entire retirement in the Temperature-Controlled setting it came from with No Direct Sunlight to Fade this Beautiful Decoy's Paint!! The Very Nice, Red, Original Imported Glass Eyes are perfectly Carved in and Located and the paint detail paint looks perfect and it is wonderfully and perfectly intact. This Awesome decoy is also structurally perfect as the Head is Perfectly Attached and this decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and the deep, bright and vivid paint is excellent and has only darkened ever so slightly from age; this decoy truly has outstanding textured and swirling thick brushed paint. Additionally, this decoy has very dry and nice old paint with a beautiful and naturally burnished semi-sheen or slightly shiny matte finish to it from being carefully handled over the years.

The outstanding patina on this decoy really is incredible and although it is very hard to capture it in photos, but you can use the zoom feature in this listing to get a good look at the wonderful "texture" and "character" that the surface that this antique and important old gunning decoy has. You can actually feel the ridges to the swirling original paint's brush marks. This decoy was in the collection of one of the original owners and then his daughters until recently and it really is in remarkable condition considering it is over 110 years old. This decoy displays wonderfully and was prominently featured in the original owner's house.

This decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever. The paint is incredible and as you can see by the close-up photos the famous Mason Paint Brush Marks were intricately applied as it was done for the challenge grade, glass eye model would have been afforded.

This excellent decoy measures 16" long x 5-5/8" wide x 7-1/2 tall and weighs 2-lbs. An excellent decoy that will complement any collection of vintage duck and shorebird decoys from a company that represents as big a part of American Decoy History as any other maker or carver. Below are Several More Pictures of Vintage Mason Canvasbacks in the Challenge Grade and a Few Premiers! BELOW ARE PICTURES of SOME COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS of the MODELS AVAILABLE By MASON in the CANVASBACK & MALLARD SPECIES! BELOW ARE PICTURES of AWESOME CHALLENGE GRADE MALLARD DECOYS INCLUDING ANOTHER 2 PICTURES of SOME SCARCE AND MUCH SOUGHT AFTER "SNAKEY HEADED" MODELS! BELOW ARE PICTURES of THE PRINCIPLE MEMBERS of the MASON FAMILY as WELL as the HOUSE WHERE it ALL STARTED FROM!! Get Images that Make Supersized Seem Small. Auctiva's Listing Templates improve your auctions in minutes. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. The item "SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy" is in sale since Thursday, December 01, 2016. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Hunting\Vintage Hunting\Duck Decoys". The seller is "gjoldan" and is located in Romeo, Michigan.

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SCARCE SUPERB 100% ORIG 1905 MASON FACTORY CHALLENGE CANVASBACK Wood Duck Decoy


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