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RARE TEAL; AWESOME 100% ORIGINAL PAINT, EXCELLENT CONDITION!!! c1905 \"MASON FACTORY\" Standard Grade \"Glass Eye\" ; \"DRAKE BLUE-WINGED TEAL\" WOOD DUCK DECOY Detroit, Michigan

SUPERB PAINT DETAIL to SPECULUMS, BACK-FEATHER CURLS & TAIL FEATHERS!!!

ORIGINAL STAPLE LINE-TIE AND \"DOG-BONE\" LEAD BALLAST WEIGHT ARE PERFECTLY INTACT!!

• 110+ YEAR OLD DECOY with AN EXCELLENT PATINA that is \"RICH\" and has a \"BURNISHED\" GLOW from AGE!!
• ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL & ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS & PAINT SWIRLS MAKE THIS A NICE DECOY TO FIND!!
• EXCELLENT & VERY THICK ORIGINAL PAINT!!!
• Excellent & Rare Decoy To Find; A Nice, Solid, Mason \"Drake blue-Winged Teal\" Decoy!!

It\'s Not Often You Come Across VERY NICE, ORIGINAL PAINT & GREAT CONDITION MASON DECOYS; THAT ESPECIALLY GOES FOR 110-YEAR OLD TEAL DECOYS!!

• EXCELLENT PAINT ON THE HEAD with EXCEPTIONAL SPECULUMS with VERY STRONG 100% ORIGINAL PAINT!!
• JUST A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE MASON TEAL DECOY!!!
• Excellent Decoy To Find as it has No Cracks, Checks or Defects of Any Kind!!
• GLASS EYE DECOYS in the STANDARD GRADE WERE THE BEST of the INTRODUCTION STANDARD MODELS!!
• BEAUTIFUL PAINT DETAIL to the \"SLATE BLUE HEAD\" and \"BLUE, BLACK & WHITE\" SPECULUMS!!!!

It\'s Not Often You Come Across Superb 100% ALL ORIGINAL PAINT & GREAT CONDITION MASON DECOYS; ESPECIALLY TEAL!!

This Decoy Also Has All of the Great Paint Brush Swirls ans Sweeping Brush Marks From The Thick, Original Paint!!!

Gorgeous \"Stippled\" Detail Paint to the Breast, Sides and Belly!!

OUTSTANDING BACK-FEATHER CURLS & TINY TAIL FEATHERS that YOU DON\'T ALWAYS SEE on STANDARD GRADE DECOYS!!

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This 110+ year old decoy was made by the Mason Decoy Factory in Detroit, Michigan and is a Glass Eye, Standard Grade \"Drake Blue-Winged Teal\", Solid-Cedar Wooden Duck Decoy. The Glass eye model was their Top-of-the-Line Model of the standard grade wood decoy, one above the the tack eye and two above the Painted Eye Models! The painted eye standard grade decoys were the quickest made with the least amount of attention to detail of all of the Mason decoys. They were quickly painted and carved and normally they were made with no frills or detail and simply made to resemble the species. This decoy up for sale, however, is a Very Nice, Glass Eye Model and it has a Very Deep and Rich, Burnished Patina!! The heads were attached to the bodies with scored dowels and the quality control on standard models where the attachment wasn\'t flush was simply hid with a quick swath of putty to fill and then evened flush. All Standard decoys were carved solid and hand-made and hand-painted not long after the turn of the century. Of the several wood decoy factories in Detroit, Mason would outlive them all and have a 30 year existence. This decoy is structurally in Perfect 100% Original Condition and as you can see this decoy retains the awesome brush marks, feather curls, nicely swathed speculums and paint swirls from the day an artist painted it some 110 years ago; even the \"Awesome Paint Detail\". The paint on this decoy is thick, original and artfully textured paint. The heads were attached to the bodies with scored dowels and the quality control on standard models where the attachment wasn\'t flush was simply hid with a quick swath of putty to fill and then evened flush.

This excellent old Mason Drake Blue-Winged Teal decoy was certainly gunned over, but it was well cared for and it decoy wonderfully. Based on condition, I am sure that this decoy was prominently featured in collections since it was retired and it has always been in Temperature and Light-Controlled settings as the Paint is Almost as Bright and Vivid as the Day it was Made over a Century ago!! The Beautiful, Antique & Original Brown Glass Mason Eyes are perfectly intact and they were mounted and carved in with perfection. This excellent old decoy also has only traces of the original neck putty, but this is very typical as most old Mason Decoys have some type of loss to the original neck putty, which is quite normal as a great many of the vintage Mason decoys that you see even have had some type of restoration or replacement done to their neck putty, but not this 100% original decoy. This decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and the decoy is in perfect structural condition other than the obvious even gunning wear, but I personally think it adds to the look of this antique decoy. Additionally, this decoy is in outstanding original condition condition with beautiful and mostly intact original paint as you can see in the pictures, and overall it is very dry and nice old and original paint with a beautiful and naturally burnished semi-sheen or slightly shiny matte finish to it from being handled over the years. The outstanding patina on this decoy really is incredible and although it is very hard to capture it in photos, I think a few of the close-up pictures capture the wonderful \"character\" and \"aura\" that the surface that this antique and important old gunning decoy has. The original paint was done extremely well and as you can see by the many photos, the famous Mason Paint is Excellent. This perfect and rare old Drake Blue-Winged Teal decoy measures 12-1/8\" long x 4-1/8\" wide x 5-1/4\" tall and weighs 1-lb. 1-oz., which includes the original lead ballast weight that surely weighs a good 6-7 ounces. An outstanding decoy that will complement any collection of vintage duck and shorebird decoys from a company that represents as big a part of American Decoy History as any other maker or carver. Thanks for looking and if you have any additional questions or would like another photo feel free to email me.

The first 13 Photos are of this awesome Mason Drake Blue-Winged Teal wood decoy up for sale and the Last 2 photos are of other standard grade Mason Blue-Winged Teal Decoys for your perusal.

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