SUPERB 100% ORIG PAINT SCARCE PREMIER 1905 MASON FACTORY Hollow WOOD DUCK DECOY
SUPERB 100% ORIG PAINT SCARCE PREMIER 1905 MASON FACTORY Hollow WOOD DUCK DECOY. Awesome, Top-of-the Line "Hollow" Mason Factory Drake Mallard "Premier-Grade" with Awesome 100% Original Paint! OUTSTANDING THICK 100% ORIGINAL PAINT, AWESOME CONDITION!! C1905 "MASON FACTORY" SCARCE, PREMIER GRADE, HOLLOW "Glass-Eye". INCREDIBLE PAINT DETAIL & SUPERB, HAND-POURED, IMPORTED BROWN GLASS EYES!!
AWESOME "SCALLOPED PAINT" to the BEAUTIFUL BREAST PAINT and the PERFECTLY-DETAILED TAIL & WING PAINT as WELL! INCREDIBLE NOTCHED BILL with VERY, VERY SPECIAL features including the BILL/HEAD SEPARATION, NOSTRILS, MANDIBLES and NAIL!!
SUPERB PAINT DETAIL to BREAST, WINGS, BACK, HEAD & TAIL! AWESOME TWO-TONE, BLACK & GREEN DRAKE MALLARD HEAD!
110+ YEAR OLD DECOY with GORGEOUS BURNISHED, OLD PATINA! MANY OF THE BEAUTIFUL & ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS & PAINT SWIRLS MAKE THIS AN AWESOME DECOY TO FIND! EXCELLENT & VERY THICK ORIGINAL PAINT!! Excellent Decoy To Find; A Perfect Early Mason Mallard! It's Not Often You Come Across Superb 100% ORIGINAL PAINT & EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION MASON DECOYS.
THAT EVEN GOES FOR 110-YEAR OLD "PREMIER-GRADE" MALLARDS! MANY OF THE BEAUTIFUL & ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS & PAINT SWIRLS & THICK FEATHERED PAINT MAKES THIS a NICE DECOY to FIND.... And QUITE SCARCE with the FAMOUS AND MUCH SOUGHT AFTER PERFECTLY-SCULPTED "PREMIER-GRADE" HEADS and BODIES! PERFECT TAIL & BILL TIP with ABSOLUTELY NO CHIPS which is VERY UNCOMMON!
MAYBE THE NICEST THING ABOUT THIS DECOY is the AWESOME CONDITION! WATER-TIGHT SEAM to the HOLLOWED HALVES with MINOR SHRINKAGE to this AWESOME PIECE OF ORIGINAL CEDAR STOCK... BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE, TURN OF THE CENTURY (Over a 110+ Years Old), EARLY MASON MALLARD!
This Decoy Also Has Many to Most of the Great Paint Brush Swirls From The Thick, Original Paint!! Gorgeous Detail Paint to the Precise Speculums! OUTSTANDING BACK, WING & TAIL DETAIL THAT YOU DON'T ALWAYS SEE ON STANDARD GRADE DECOYS!GREAT BLACK SPOT on the TAIL BOTTOM. BEAUTIFUL & PERFECT BROWN SWOOPING CIRCULAR BREAST PAINT & SPECULUMS! This Decoy Also has the Tremendous and Much Sought After Great Paint Brush Swirls From The Thick, Original Paint.... A Swirling "SCALLOPED PAINT" on the BREAST! ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING & EXCEPTIONAL PATINA to the "BURNISHED FROM AGE" and VERY MUCH "GLOWING" SURFACE to this GORGEOUS ANTIQUE FACTORY MALLARD 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! This 109+ year old decoy was made by the Mason Decoy Factory in Detroit, Michigan and is a Premier Grade "Hollow" Drake Mallard Duck Decoy. The Premier Grade or Model was their Top-of-the-Line, Best version of wood decoy and was made with outstanding quality control and unsurpassed craftsmanship.It was carved hollow and hand-made and hand-painted not long after the turn of the century. Of the several wood decoy factories in Detroit, Mason would outlive them all and have a 30 year existence. This decoy is structurally in Incredible 100% original condition and the holes where the keel or ballast weight were removed is pristine and paint free; which is awesome. The Imported, Hand-Poured, Antique, Original Glass Eyes are perfectly intact from the day it was gunned over at the hunt clubs or rig owners that gunned over it.
This decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and even the 2 old shot marks and hard-to-see and tiny dents only add to the Aura of this 110+Year Old Gunning Decoy!! This Awesome and Important 100% All Original Everything decoy measures 17-3/4" long x 5-3/4" wide x 7-3/8 tall and weighs a very hollow and yet very hefty 2-lb.The dimensions and weight are just perfect. Mason was so exacting with their patterns and the manufacturing process that they are precise and very close from decoy to decoy and model to model. I have owned or own 8 of these Premier mallards and this decoy is a perfect specimen. An awesome 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. This decoy is structurally in outstanding original condition other than a surface check to the left base of the neck but this is not uncommon.
As you can see this decoy retains many of the awesome and original brush marks, sweeping solid-color brush strokes and head paint, plus nicely swathed speculums and paint swirls from the day an artist painted it some 120 years ago; even the "Awesome Paint Detail". The paint on this decoy is thick, original and outstanding paint. NOTE ON THE PICTURES BELOW OF THE THICK, INCREDIBLE ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS -and. SWOOSHING SPECULUMS, FINE BREAST SCALLOPING, TAN& BEIGE COVERTS & CRISP, SOLID FEATHER GROUP DETAIL. FROM THE DAY THIS BEAUTIFUL DECOY WAS MADE OVER A CENTURY AGO!!!The Beautiful, Imported Glass Eyes are wonderfully carved in and located and the paint on the avocado bill and green and black head looks awesome. This decoy is great example of the finest grade of decoy that Mason made and it was painted with an incredible paint scheme and thickness that you will see on one of these beauties! The bill has wonderfully carved in mandibles, head/bill separation, nostrils and perfect nail on the end and one of the nicest bills I have seen on one of these scarce decoys in quite some time. Additionally, this decoy is in outstanding 100% original condition with beautiful and fully intact original paint as you can see in the pictures, and overall it is very dry and nice old and original paint with a beautiful and naturally burnished semi-sheen or slightly shiny matte finish to it from being handled over the years.
The outstanding patina on this decoy really is incredible and although it is very hard to capture it in photos, I think a few of the close-up pictures capture the wonderful "character" that the surface that this antique and important old gunning decoy has. This decoy was obviously gunned over a century ago, but it clearly was taken care of carefully as it is just in outstanding original condition. The original paint was done extremely well and as you can see by the many photos, the famous Mason Paint Brush Marks and Wonderful Speculums are intact and have all of the original paint perfectly intact.
But even more awesome is the thick and 100% original brush marks and swirls, as most of the brush strokes are beautiful and perfectly intact!! Phenomenal condition on the entire decoy, but it obviously has very light and even wear!! This excellent and significant decoy measures an.
Awesome and Important 100% All Original Everything decoy measures 17-3/4" long x 5-3/4" wide x 7-3/8 tall and weighs a very hollow and yet very hefty 2-lb. Outstanding 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. 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 "SUPERB 100% ORIG PAINT SCARCE PREMIER 1905 MASON FACTORY Hollow WOOD DUCK DECOY" is in sale since Sunday, November 06, 2016. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Hunting\Vintage Hunting\Duck Decoys". The seller is "gjoldan" and is located in Romeo, Michigan. This item can be shipped worldwide.