Tom Wilson Black Bellied Plover

John Thomas Wilson (1863-1940) Ipswich, MA, c. 1890 An important shorebird decoy from a rig of plover that folk art collector and historian Nina Fletcher Little purchased in the early 1950's. Her paper collection label is still on the underside and reads "Tom Wilson, Ipswich, old in 1910, 1890?" Original condition with a couple age lines on one side of neck.

Provenance: Nina Fletcher Little Collection Private Collection, Texas

Literature: Hal Sorenson, "Decoy Collector's Guide," Burlington, IA, 1965, p. 12, exact bird or rigmate pictured on wall in photograph of interior shot of the home of Winsor White of Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Provenance

Nina Fletcher Little Collection Private Collection, Texas