Dave Umbrella Watson Canada Goose

Dave "Umbrella" Watson (1851-1939) Chincoteague, VA, 1928 Goose decoys by this maker are extremely rare. A bold, hollow carving with pronounced eye grooves, glass eyes, and V-carved raised primaries. This decoy was part of a rig of geese and black ducks ordered from Watson by a Hampton Bay, Long Island bayman in 1928. His rig brand "ACP" is impressed twice in the bottom. A hole in the bottom reveals that this was possibly used as a field decoy. Mostly original paint with touch-up to areas of filled nails and some over-paint professionally removed. Gunning wear including a neck crack.

Provenance: Private Collection, North Carolina Private Collection

Literature: Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., "Southern Decoys of Virginia and the Carolinas," Exton, PA, 1983, pp. 77-78, plate 98, exact decoy illustrated.

Provenance

Private Collection, North Carolina Private Collection