Auction: Discovery - 2620MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: November 15, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England Statesand a Ken Harris Carvedand Painted Wooden Mallard Duck Decoy Lamp, three volumes, by Edward Howe Forbush, Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, publisher, 1929, with illustrations.
Provenance: The decoy lamp found at Brimfield, Massachusetts.
Note: The book accompanied by original bill of sale from the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc., Boston, dated January 31, 1940, for the purchase of Vols. I and III, which were used for reference by miniature bird carver Jess Blackstone, who at the time lived in Melrose, Massachusetts.
Estimate $225-325