Antique Duck, Goose Decoys Break $1 Million Barrier in Private Sale
Published September 22nd, 2007
Fine Arts of Boston, sold two antique decoys, a duck and a goose, on September 20 for a record-setting $1.13 million each in a private sale. The decoys were both made by carver A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1954) of East Harwich, Massachusetts.
The sale of the two million-dollar decoys was part of a larger private sale of 31 decoys brokered by Stephen O’Brien Jr. Fine Arts for $7.5 million, in what O’Brien describes as the “largest private sale of decoys ever
