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Edward Franklin Capt. Frank Besse Running Yellowlegs Flattie
Edward Franklin "Capt. Frank" Besse (1852-1934) Westport, MA, c. 1880
$1,265
Brought, including buyer's premium
Estimate $1,000–$1,500
Sold 21 Jan 2013at The Winter Sale 2013 — Copley
SpeciesYellowlegsPoseStandardPaintOriginal
The catalog record
Edward Franklin "Capt. Frank" Besse (1852-1934) Westport, MA, c. 1880
An early one-and-one-quarter-inch-thick, flat-sided, feeding shorebird decoy with black shoe-button eyes. Original paint with flaking and light gunning wear including a tight neck crack on one side, old in-use touch-up to the white underside, and some flaking.
Literature: Bill LaPointe, "Capt. Frank Besse & Edward Gosling," Decoy Magazine, Lewes, DE, March/ April, 2010, p. 9, rigmate illustrated.
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