dave-umbrella-watson-va-1851-1938-goose
Lot 1398
Dave "Umbrella" Watson (VA, 1851-1938), Goose
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Chincoteague, Virginia, circa 1928, carved and painted wood, glass eyes, P brand scratched in the bottom.

Length 25 in.

Two piece balsa body joined by wooded pegs. This goose was made for a Hampton Bay, NY rig. A rig mate is published on page 78 of Southerm Decoys by Henry Fleckenstein.

Old gunning paint, worn to bare wood in places, roughness to tail, stable crack in the neck with some wood loss.