Elmer Crowell Pair of Bluebill

A special order family of bluebills. Drake and hen are 2/3 size, measures 10.5" in length. Both are stamped and signed "AE Crowell" on underside in Crowell's pen and ink. Both have turned heads. Both are in original paint and have similar cracks in necks; hen has a few small spots of flaking at top of head and a small piece of wood missing near crack in neck.

Provenance

By decent in the Atwood family. The Atwood's regularly summered in the Chatham area of Cape Cod, beginning in 1936, building a 'cottage' there in 1940.