Hey guys and gals I'd been looking at this woodcock print on and off for a bunch of months at a local (Grand Haven) antique mall. After a meeting or two with my finance guy, watching the DOW every day and paying attention to future predictions for Treasury Bond rates I finally "bit the bullet" and plunked down $30.80 hard cash (including frame, sales tax etc.) for this woodcock print.
It appealed to me as it represents much of the type of woodcock cover that I hunt (low, thick,wet mixed cover) as opposed to the usual "New England" styled woodcock prints - two guys with a setter on point, shooting while smoking their pipes, with an abandoned apple orchard in the background bordered on one side by a crumbling stone wall and the other by a babbling brook tumbling down a hillside etc. well you get my drift - New England perhaps, Michigan hardly.
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In the lower right hand corner are the initials - "A.J.R.". A cross posting on another upland shooting website and a Google search have been unproductive as to who "A.J.R." is or most probably was. Any info. would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately the print is glued to the cardboard backing so I have no idea if any info. is on the verso of the print.
The more I look at it the more I like it. It's hanging in my mud room so I'll get a look at it every time I come in my house but most especially after returning from a woodcock hunt with my once "old" but now "new" Browning Superposed Super-Light. But I'll save that story for another post.
Thanks in advance.
Hoppe's no. 10
It appealed to me as it represents much of the type of woodcock cover that I hunt (low, thick,wet mixed cover) as opposed to the usual "New England" styled woodcock prints - two guys with a setter on point, shooting while smoking their pipes, with an abandoned apple orchard in the background bordered on one side by a crumbling stone wall and the other by a babbling brook tumbling down a hillside etc. well you get my drift - New England perhaps, Michigan hardly.
In the lower right hand corner are the initials - "A.J.R.". A cross posting on another upland shooting website and a Google search have been unproductive as to who "A.J.R." is or most probably was. Any info. would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately the print is glued to the cardboard backing so I have no idea if any info. is on the verso of the print.
The more I look at it the more I like it. It's hanging in my mud room so I'll get a look at it every time I come in my house but most especially after returning from a woodcock hunt with my once "old" but now "new" Browning Superposed Super-Light. But I'll save that story for another post.
Thanks in advance.
Hoppe's no. 10
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