John Fulcher Dowitcher Pair

John Fulcher (attr.) Corolla, NC, c. 1910 After the turn of the century Edward Knight, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his wife Louise a sports woman in her own right built Corolla Island, an elegant arts and crafts mansion with an art nouveau interior. Architectural details included Tiffany lamps and bronze duck head door knobs. They used their new home as their winter sporting residence and entertained decades of friends and family over the decades. The name was changed to the Whalehead Club in the 1950s by the second owner. Used at this gunning camp, these two tack-eyed shorebirds have two bottom holes to adjust the decoys’ attitude and a u-hook embedded in a lead plug for stringing purposes. Both are in old in-use repaint, with gunning wear and replaced bills.