Ward Brothers Fat Jaw Goldeneye

Fat jaw style with wide, slightly turned head and humped back. Measures 16” long. G&D SOLD $60000 including 20% BP. Lot 314. https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lots/view/5-KVX4I

Provenance

Ex Dr. Edmund Bowman collection. George and Miriam Van Walleghem collection. This rare and important humpback goldeneye is part of a small rig that was found in Michigan by Dr. Edmund Bowman in the mid 1960’s. He sold or traded a few but kept the best one for his collection. It was included in an exhibition catalog and displayed in 1979 at the Midwest Decoy Collectors Association. Apparently he thought enough of it to share a photo with Adele Earnest so that she could include a photo of it in her book, The Art of the Decoy, plate 157.