Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1940s, carved and painted wood, faintly signed to underside TILLETT.

Length 17 in.

Collected direct from the Tillet family.

Clay Tillet was the last born son of Alfonso and Lenora Tillet. At an early age, became an enthusiastic waterman working as a fisherman, boat builder, hunter, and decoy maker. This is the only known Clay Tillet brant.

Original paint with craquelure to paint on the tail, age check to the bottom, unrigged.