David Henry Cochran Swimming Brant
David Henry Cochran Blue Point, Long Island, NY, c. 1900
The catalog record
David Henry Cochran Blue Point, Long Island, NY, c. 1900 A fine swimming brant decoy used on Great South Bay. From the rig of Walter L. Suydam of Blue Point, Long Island branded "W. L. Suydam" on bottom. One of the finest Cochran decoys we have ever come across. In excellent dry original paint with a few minor scrapes. The decoy is still rigged.
Provenance: Milton C. Weiler Collection Paul W. Bigelow Collection, Garden City, New Jersey By descent in the Bigelow family
Literature: Harold Sorenson, Decoy Collector’s Guide, Burlington, IA, July-Sept. 1965, p. 18, rigmate illustrated. Joe Engers, ed., The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys, San Diego, CA, 1990, p. 108.
Provenance
Milton C. Weiler Collection Paul W. Bigelow Collection, Garden City, New Jersey By descent in the Bigelow family
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