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Azevedo/Snyder
Pintail Hen |
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Very stylish, pintail hen by Artie Azevedo (Rio Vista, CA) ca. 1952. Azevedo and the collectible Rio Vista carver, Ed Snyder, were close. In 1952 Azevedo used Snyders patterns and rough carved a rig of decoys. Snyder then finished carved them and painted them in Snyders wonderful style. See page 390 of Wildfowl Decoys of California for additional information on these decoys. oos |
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Joe Freitas
Bluebill Pair |
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Beautiful pair of greater scaup by Joe "Puggy" Freitas (Rio Vista). Signed by the maker. Measure approximately 13" in length. Carved of solid redwood. OOS |
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This unique, hollow carved, wigeon pair was found on a farm near Othello, WA in 1976. The rig consisted of very stylish pintail, wigeon, teal and mallard. Said to have been made by Dick Thedens of Ellensburg, WA. I suspect these to be C. 1960's. The drake measures 16" with a turned hed and the hen measures 17" in a slight reaching forward posture. The keels have pendulum swing weights attached. IS |
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Glenn DeLozier
Canvasback |
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Beutiful, hollow carved canvasback drake by Glenn DeLozier of Rodeo, CA. Signed and dated "Good Luck Louie, April 12, 1986". Measures 13.5" in length. There are a few small dents on the head and bill. OOS |
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Excellent original paint on this mallard drake from the Pascagoula Decoy Company (PADCO) of Pascagoula, MS, ca. 1940s. There appears to be a thin coat of varnish on this example. OOS |
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Dick Janson
Pintail Drake |
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A great example by the most collectible early California maker, Dick Janson (Sonoma, CA), ca. 1920. Measures 17.5" in length. Early in-use repaint consistent with the Janson style. OOS |
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Evans Company
Mallard Drake |
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Evans (Ladysmith, WI) standard mallard drake ca. 1930s. This example is in a mix of original and restored paint. The Evans stamp is clear on the bottom. There is a tail chip repair. IS |
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Hollow carved canvasback drake by Charles Pice (Astoria, OR) ca. 1930s. Paint is old in-use repaint. The bottom is branded "FJ" for Francis Jermaine. Measures nearly 17" in length. OOS |
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Common loon from the Big Sky Carvers, Exclusive Edition, Orvis and so stamped. Signed "Joret". Measures 17" in length. OOS |
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Wildfowler Co.
Mallard Drake |
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Mint condition mallard drake from the Babylon, NY factory of the Wildfowler Decoy Company, c. late 70s. Measures 15.5" in length. See page 121 of Wildfowler Decoys by Cowan and LaFountain for a similar example. OOS |
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Nicely done ruddy duck drake by a maker unknown to me. Paint chip on the bottom of the bill indicates redwood construction. There is some wear and the bottom indicates a balast weight was once attached. Unknown age. Measures 13" in length. OOS |
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Duck-In Decoys
Mallard Pair |
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A good pair of cork and kapok stuffed cloth mallard tip up decoys by the Duck-In Decoy Company of St. Louis, Missouri, ca. 1930's. See page 122-123 of North American Factory Decoys by Ken Trayer. OOS |
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Wildfowler Co.
Wood Duck Pair |
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Exceedingly rare pair of mint wood ducks by they Wildfowler Decoy Company of Point Pleasant, NJ. These are hollow carved pine and in unused condition. They are from the Perkins collection and so stamped. OOS |
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Scott Company
Pintail Drake |
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Good and original canvas over cork pintail drake by the Scott Cork Decoy Company of Stockton, California, ca. 1950's. Scott canvas decoys are discussed on pages 338-342 of North American Factory Decoys by Ken Trayer as well as pages 249-257 of Wildfowl Decoys of the Pacific Coast by Miller and Hanson. OOS |
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Wildfowler Co.
Pintail Pair |
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Honest, all original pair of pintails from the Old Saybrook, CT factory of the Wildfowler Decoy Company. Constructed with balsa bodies and pine heads, ca. 1940's. The hen has a neck crack. OOS |
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Redhead drake by the recently deceased Jack Leach (Tacoma, WA). Excellent all original paint and condition. Head is slightly raised to represent a drinking posture. Glass eyes. Hollow carved with bottom board. Detailed bill, shoulder and wingtip carving. Measures approximately 15" in length. See the July/August 1992 Decoy Magazine article by Larry Rucker. OOS |
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Percy Bicknell
Mallard Pair |
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All original, hollow carved, rigmate mallard pair by Percy Bicknell (Richmond, BC) ca. 1930, See page 22 of Wildfowl Decoys of the Pacific Coast by Miller and Hanson. OOS |
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Bill Goenne
Green-winged Teal Pair |
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Bill Goenne (King City, CA) green-winged teal pair. Goenne's work is very collectible and is represented in Decoys, Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers by Loy Harrell. Both branded WRG. OOS |
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Bill Goenne
Cinnamon Teal |
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Bill Goenne (King City, CA) cinnamon teal pair. Goenne's work is very collectible and is represented in Decoys, Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers by Loy Harrell. Both are signed by the maker and branded WRG. IS |
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Bill Goenne
Cinnamon Teal |
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Bill Goenne (King City, CA) cinnamon teal pair. Goenne's work is very collectible and is represented in Decoys, Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers by Loy Harrell. Both are branded WRG. OOS |
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Bill Goenne
Blue-winged Teal |
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Bill Goenne (King City, CA) blue-winged teal drake. Goenne's work is very collectible and is represented in Decoys, Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers by Loy Harrell. Branded WRG on the bottom, turned head, excellent original paint. Measures 14.5" in length. IS |
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Bill Goenne
Green-winged Teal |
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Bill Goenne (King City, CA) hollow carved green-winged teal drake. Goenne's work is very collectible and is represented in Decoys, Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers by Loy Harrell. Branded WRG on the bottom, turned head, excellent original paint. Signed by the maker Measures 14.5" in length. IS |
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Solid carved of redwood canvasback drake by John Thomas "Tom" Daily of San Francisco, CA, c. 1890. Daily was one of the earliest of the known CA decoy makers. This example is excellent structurally. Later repaint in the Daily style. OOS |
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Charles Pice
Pintail Drake |
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Hollow carved pintail drake by Charles Pice (Astoria, OR) ca. 1930s. Paint is original and skillfully applied applied by another highly collecible early Astoria maker, Frank Bay. Measures nearly 18" in length. See the wonderful article detailing the Astoria group entitled "Helsinki of the West" in the September/October 2012 issue of Decoy Magazine. OOS |
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An outstanding, full-bodied, standing, green-winged teal drake by David Ward (Essex, CT). Excellent, thick all original paint applied with nice combing. Raised primary feathers and carved shoulders. Slightly turned head. Measures 11.5" in length and 12" from base to the top of the head. The pictures don't do this carving justice. OOS |
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Outstanding solid carved redhead hen by Miles Pirnie of East Lansing, MI, ca.1960's. Beautiful form and carving. Stamped with the Pirnie stamp on the bottom. Head is turned to the right. Measures 14" in length. The keel has been removed. OOS |
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Rare tack-eye model teal (likely green-winged) from the Mason Decoy Company (Detroit, MI), c. 1900. Paint has been stripped. Measures 12" in length. OOS |
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Tom Rodella
Pintail Drake |
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A great example by Tom Rodella (Concord, CA) c. 1940s. Paint appears to be good and original with some fine scratch painting on the back. See page 444 of Wildfowl Decoys of California by Michael Miller for additional information on this maker. IS |
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John Winter
Pintail Drake |
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Pintail drake by John Winter (Cleveland Wrecking Co.) of San Francisco, CA, ca. 1948. Constructed with a balsa body, redwood tail and head and tack eyes. See page 376-377 of Wildfowl Decoys of California by Mike Miller for additional information on these interesting decoys. Measures 16.5" in length. Original paint with light wear. The red staining is commonly found on decoys used in the San Pablo Bay region of San Francisco Bay. IS |
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Frank Mattie
Pintail Drake |
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Great solid redwood body with sugar pine head "jack-tail" sprig by Frank Mattie of Antioch, CA, ca. 1920s. Nice original comb painting on the back with in service repaint on the head and chest. Unique construction with the tail attached as a seperate piece of wood. See pages 439-442 of Wildfowl Decoys of California by Michael Miller. OOS |
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Charlie Haines
Bluebill Drake |
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Stylish and folksy bluebill drake by Charlie Haines (Richmond, California), c. 1938. Paint on this solid carved redwood bluebill has had professional restoration. Page 186 of Wildfowl Decoys of the Pacific Coast indicates that Haines, a sergeant in the Richmond Police Department, was arrested for an overlimit of canvasbacks. "The judge thought it inappropriate that a lawman should violate the law, so he sentenced Haines to 10 days in the Federal penitentiary in San Francisco". OOS |
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Dick Thedens
Pintail Pair |
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This unique, hollow carved, pintail pair was found on a farm near Othello, WA in 1976. The rig consisted of very stylish pintail, wigeon, teal and mallard. Said to have been made by Dick Thedens of Ellensburg, WA. I suspect these to be C. 1960's. The drake measures 22" and the hen measures 15". The drakes sprig tail is removable. The bottom indicates they were once weighted for use. OOS |
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George Goertz
Black Brant |
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Rare brant by George Goertz of Alameda, CA, c. 1946. See Wildfowl Decoys of California page 264 for a similar example as well as our article on Goertz in the November-December 2008 issue of Hunting and Fishing Collectibles magazine. Goertz was an innovative maker who pioneered many different construction techniques. Balsawood body, sugar pine head reinforced with fiberglass. The bill has been repaired by Bill Neal. Measures 17" in length. IS |
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James Walton
Bluebill Pair |
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Charming pair of bluebills by James Walton of Milwaukee, WI ca. 1930's-40's. The hen's head is turned to the left and the drakes head is tucked in the resting posture. Very appealing style on this diminutive rigmate pair. The hen is approximately 12" n length and the drake is 11". Attractive carved, crossed wings. There may be areas of old in-use repaint. OOS |
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Rare pair of solid cedar pintails attributed to the Tuveson Mfg. Company of St. James, MN. This Co. was in production from 1919-1942. The hen is all original with a tail chip and missing her right eye. The drake is original with the white sides, chest and neck in repaint with the right eye missing. See pages 376-378 of North American Factory Decoys by Ken Trayer. OOS |
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Rare, tack-eye model canvasback drake from the Mason Decoy Company of Detroit, MI, ca. 1905. Paint appears to be mostly original with an old coat of varnish applied. Measures 14.5" in length. OOS |
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Taylor Boyd
Pintail Drake |
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Early, solid carved canvasback in attractive old gunning repaint to represent a pintail. This great old Chesapeake Bay decoy is by Taylor Boyd (Perryville, Maryland). Boyd's elongated body style decoys are dated to ca. 1900. OOS |
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Stylish little common goldeneye by a maker unknown to me. Measures 12.5" in length. OOS |
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Herters Co.
Goldeneye Pair |
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Rigmate pair of Herter's Company (Waseca, MN) goldeneye's. Balsa body models, c 1940s-mid 1950s. Paint is worn but all original. OOS |
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Madison Mitchell
Canada Goose |
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Nice, original, Canada Goose by Madison Mitchell (Havre de Grace, MD). Measures 24.5" in length. There is an old stable neck crack. OOS |
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A beautifully designed and painted swimming mallard hen by Roger Barton of San Francisco, CA. The bottom is branded "R.W.B." in attractive scroll design. The tag dates this example to 1968. Measures 17.5" in length. OOS |
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Original paint wood duck drake by the L.L. Bean Company of Freeport, MN. This is the later style very similar to the one pictured on page 60 of North American Factory Decoys by Ken Trayer. Measures 14" in length. OOS |
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Anthony Hillman
Mourning Dove |
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Stunning dove decoy in the sleeping posture by Cape May, NJ artist Anthony Hillman. Branded "H". OOS |
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Plump ruddy duck by the talented decoy maker, Mark McNair (Craddockville, VA). Outstanding original paint and condition. Measures approximately 10.5" in length. OOS |
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The body on this decoy is that of Dick Allen (Vallejo, CA), c 1940's. This is the COM MINS model and so branded on the back. This stands for Commissioned Officers Mess Mare Island Naval Shipyard. See pages 153-155 of Wildfowl Decoys of the Pacific Coast by Miller and Hanson for additional information on this important maker. The tail and bill are a later replacement. Paint is mostly in old repaint. Measures 18.5" in length. IS |
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Emilio Andreuccetti
Pintail Drake |
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Pintail drake by Emilio Andreuccetti of Sacramento, California, c. 1950's. Paint appears to be in a second coat, likely by the maker. Directly from the Andreucetti estate. Emilio's work is well documented on pages 336-337 of Wildfowl Decoys of the Pacific Coast. IS |
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Walter Ruppel
Mallard Hen |
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This is a rare, hollow carved cedar, model mallard hen by Walter Ruppel (Portland, OR). North American Factory Decoys by Ken Trayer indicates that to control production costs, Ruppel used cork or balsa after moving to Oregon in 1942. This is a hollow cedar model with the Oregon factory ink stamp on the bottom. Excellent unused paint and condition. There is a tight stable neck crack. Measures 16.5" in length. OOS |
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Madison Mitchell
Pintail Drake |
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All original pintail drake by Madison Mitchell of Havre de Grace, MD. Measures 18" in length. Head is slightly turned to the left. Tight neck crack. Signed in electropen and dated 1974. OOS |
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Pete Peterson
Mourning Dove |
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Dove by Cape Charles, VA artist, Pete Peterson. OOS |
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