Daniel Demott Black Bellied Plover

Daniel DeMott East Rockaway, Long Island, NY, c. 1890 Original paint with significant gunning wear, lightly hit by shot, worn to bare wood in places. The decoy has an age crack through the neck. A check to the body was painted over where the bird was made and the bottom 1/4 of the bird was secured with several nails.

Literature: Henry A. Fleckenstein Jr., Shore Bird Decoys, Exton, PA, 1980, plate 53, p. 52.