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RARE HOLLOW CHALLENGE BRANT ~SUPERB ORG PAINT 1905 MASON FACTORY Wood Duck Decoy
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RARE HOLLOW CHALLENGE BRANT ~SUPERB ORG PAINT 1905 MASON FACTORY Wood Duck Decoy
Price: US $1977.00
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(BELOW):  THIS \"SPECIAL ORDER\" VERY RARE \"HOLLOW\" MASON \"CHALLENGE GRADE\" BRANT DECOY Up For sale; ~with a MASON \"SOLID BODIED\" CANADA GOOSE \"PREMIER GRADE\" DECOY!!

  • This Special Order \"HOLLOW\" Brant Weighs 3-lbs. EXACTLY!!  (The Canada Goose Solid-Body Weighs a Whopping 10-1/2 lbs.)

RARE & HARD-TO-FIND \"HOLLOW\" BRANT DECOY; \"SPECIAL ORDER\" SUPERB ORIGINAL PAINT!!!    EARLY, c1905 \"MASON FACTORY\" CHALLENGE GRADE \"Glass Eye\";  \"BRANT GOOSE\"  WOOD DUCK DECOY  Detroit, Michigan

EXCELLENT BLENDED PAINT DETAIL & SUPERB, HAND-POURED, IMPORTED GLASS EYES!!! 

  • 110+ YEAR OLD DECOY with AN EXCELLENT PAINT-TEXTURED, \"RICH\", BURNISHED from AGE, PATINA!!
    • MANY OF THE BEAUTIFUL & ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS & PAINT SWIRLS & THICK FEATHERED PAINT MAKES THIS a NICE DECOY to FIND....and QUITE RARE;  A SPECIAL ORDER \"HOLLOW\" BRANT DECOY...AMONG the RAREST of the BRANT DECOYS!!!

  A RIG-MANAGEABLE and \"VERY HOLLOWED\" 3-lbs. EXACTLY!  

BEAUTIFUL PAINT BRUSH MARKS & SWIRLS,  ESPECIALLY THE BACK and BREAST PAINT!!!!

  • RARE with its ORIGINAL NECK PUTTY PERFECTLY INTACT!!

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

  • HOLLOW CHALLENGE GRADE BRANT DECOYS HAVE the SAME BEAUTIFUL LINES as the SOLID BODIED BRANT & CANADA GEESE, BUT Much SOUGHT AFTER and RARE as HOLLOW VERSIONS are VERY RARE and SEEN VERY INFREQUENTLY!!!
  • OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL CONDITION with a LARGE, ORIGINAL & TYPICAL CHECK on the BACK!

This Decoy Also Has Many of the Great 100% Original Paint Brush Swirls & Feathering From The Thick & Beautiful Original Paint!!!  

Gorgeous Detail Paint to the Entire Decoy that was Done By a Mason Artist Over a Century Ago!!

THIS DECOY ALSO HAS MOST of the SMALL AMOUNT of ORIGINAL NECK PUTTY PERFECTLY INTACT!!

  • ANOTHER VERY NICE ASPECT of this DECOY is THAT it ALSO RETAINS MOST of the WHITE LEAD PUTTY that was USED to SEAL the SEAM WHERE the TWO HOLLOW HALVES were ATTACHED!!!!

This Decoy Also has the Tremendous and Much Sought After Great Paint Brush Swirls From The Thick, Original Paint....a Swirling Masterpiece on the BACK and BREAST!!

ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING & EXCEPTIONAL PATINA to the \"BURNISHED FROM AGE\" and VERY MUCH \"GLOWING\" SURFACE to this GORGEOUS ANTIQUE FACTORY GOOSE DECOY!!

I CAN\'T ENCOURAGE YOU ENOUGH to USE the ZOOM FEATURE in this LISTING to GET a SUPER CLOSE-UP of the SWIRLING MASON PAINT!!

If You Like Old Gunning Decoys That Did What They Were Made To Do and Show The Obvious Wear But Look Great, Here is a Great Decoy For Your Collection!!

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This 110+ year old decoy was made by the Mason Decoy Factory in Detroit, Michigan and is a Glass Eye, Challenge Grade \"HOLLOW\" SPECIAL ORDER Brant Decoy.  Mason marketed and Advertised their Brant decoys as Challenge Grade, which is model-wise correct as it is a solid-bodied decoy with the Challenge Grade carving to the Bill!!  The Mason artists painted these decoys to be as realistic as possible, although the highly stylized paint to the back is not quite as glamorous as what the Canada Geese decoys received.  Mason\'s Brant decoys were made in a variety of styles over the years, but the differences are most closely related to the date and era that they were made.  This decoy up for sale is quite a rare specimen as it was carved hollow, which is not only a \"Special Order\" for Challenge grade decoys, but it was also a \"Special Order\" for Either of the two Goose category decoys they made (Brant Goose and Canada Goose).

As far as Mason duck decoys are concerned, the Challenge Grade Model was the upgrade of the standard grade models and was slightly below the hollow Premier Grade!!  The Premier Grade was a Hollow carved decoy that had the most elaborate painting and carving detail of any Mason decoys, but the Challenge Grade was only a step behind and many collector\'s find the pleasing and more anatomically correct Challenge grade birds to the Premier Grade decoys.  But again, the Challenge grade decoys were all made as solid-bodied birds, unless special ordered to be carved hollow.  The numbers of Mason decoys carved in the various grades varied by species as well as gender.

This decoy up for sale, however, is a very nicely painted Brant decoy with Nice and Even Wear to the Paint and Obvious Even rubbing to the Edges!!  The heads on these Brant and Canada Goose decoys were attached to the bodies with long scored dowels and the quality control was such that like the Premier and Challenge duck decoys, they only used neck putty where needed and it usually wasn\'t much.  An Excellent Thing about this decoy is that it Retains Most of the Tiny Amount of Original Neck Filler Used!!  lastly, as far as the heads are concerned, a great many of Mason Brant and Canada Goose decoys is that the head and neck dowel often runs the complete length of the head and neck and goes right through the top of the head.  This Hollow Brant up for sale is no exception as it is exposed on top, but still as tight and intact as the day this decoy was made. Also, the seam on this decoy is perfectly water-tight and most of the white lead seam putty is perfectly intact, except directly under the tail and on the very front side of the breast; otherwise perfectly tight as if attached yesterday. But what is even more impressive is that the head is as tightly attached to the body as if this decoy was made yesterday, although it might have been strengthened with a finishing nail or two while in use and still being gunned over.  The head is tight and held in perfectly and it is just a very nice, very scarce, very old and fairly early Mason, Hollow Brant Decoy!!

\"If You Are Looking For An Outstanding & Rare, \"Hollow Brant Specimen\" From One of The World\'s Most Important Factory Decoy Makers in History.....THIS IS A GREAT DECOY FOR YOU!!!!

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 original condition and as you can see this decoy retains many of the awesome brush marks and paint swirls from the day an artist painted it some 110 years ago; even the paint brush marks and paint swirls. Although this decoy doesn\'t have scalloped tail paint, the Paint is so Nice that it looks like what you would find on a very Good Challenge Grade decoy, which was basically their Top-of-the-Line Model and Only Brant version of decoy!  This decoy up for sale, however, is a Very Nice, rare \"Hollow\" Glass Eye Model and it has a Very Textured and Rich, Burnished Patina!!  This decoy is structurally in Excellent Condition and as you can see this decoy retains many of the awesome brush marks, paint brush Marks and 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 like no other decoy factory other than Mason was able to achieve.

SOLID-BODIED \"CHALLENGE GRADE\" BRANT with EXCEPTIONAL ORIGINAL PAINT!

(Above:)  THIS AWESOME BRANT DECOY Up For sale Has SUPERB SWIRLING ORIGINAL BRUSH MARKS and is a VERY RARE, \"HOLLOW\" CHALLENGE GRADE BRANT GOOSE MASON DECOY that was MADE OVER A CENTURY AGO!!!

This awesome decoy up for sale is also not just one of Mason\'s Brant decoys, it is a Great Specimen that was special Ordered to be made hollow, and there aren\'t many!!

This decoy displays wonderfully and based on the excellent condition, I am sure that this decoy was has spent its entire retirement in a few collections and it has always been in collections that were Temperature-Controlled settings with No Direct Sunlight to Fade this Beautiful Decoy\'s Paint!!  The Very Nice, Brown, Imported Glass Eyes are perfectly Carved in and Located and the paint  detail paint looks perfect and it is wonderfully and perfectly intact.  This Awesome decoy is also structurally perfect as the Head is Perfectly Attached and even the original seam and neck putty is mostly intact and original.  Many Mason Decoys typically have had 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 have had some type of restoration or replacement done to their neck putty.  This Awesome Brant decoy is an awesome example of a decoy with most of the small amount of original neck putty that was used perfectly intact, and the head is as tightly attached to the body as if it were made yesterday!!  This decoy is as solid as the day it was made with no looseness in the neck whatsoever and the deep, bright and vivid paint is excellent and it has darkened only ever so slightly from age; this decoy truly has outstanding textured and swirling thick brushed paint.  Additionally, this decoy has 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, but you can use the zoom feature in this listing to get a good look at the wonderful \"texture\" and \"character\" that the surface that this antique and important old gunning decoy has.  You can actually feel the ridges to the swirling original paint\'s brush marks.  This decoy was obviously rigged and possibly gunned over more than a century ago, and it looks awesome and in incredible condition for an old gunning bird from over a century ago.  The original paint was done extremely well and as you can see by the many photos, many of the famous Mason Paint Brush Marks and wonderful Swirling Paint is intact and this super thick original paint is very pleasing.

This decoy is in excellent condition other than the very old and original check on the back that still has white lead in it from the day that this decoy was made, but it obviously had its lead ballast and line-tie removed at some point in time.  If you ask me, the rigging or the absence of rigging on the beautiful old Mason\'s old adds to the Aura of this Important Pieces of Decoy Carving History.  It was also quite normal for people to cannibalize the rigging for other decoys from these old decoys as they were retired onto a shelf or into a display case!!   This Very Nice and Very Scarce Hollow Brant decoy measures 21\" long x 7-5/8\" wide x 9-3/4\" tall and weighs 3-lbs. exactly.  These Dimensions are Perfect for a Brant Model, but the very light from hollowing weight of 3-lbs. is what makes this decoy rare.  That really is incredible and it is also a testament to Mason\'s Incredible Quality Control and Exacting Standards that were outlined for their carvers and artists and they expected these standards to be executed with little or no tolerances. This is Just 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 10 Photos are of This Awesome and Quite Hard-to-Find Drake Painted-Eyed Bluebill Decoy Up for sale!!  The Last 5 Photos are of other Mason Paint Eye Decoys and their more common glass eye cousins!! 

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