The Goose
 

Sunday morning photos of a nice decoy I found on craig list. It looks like the original hardware. The body is cork and the head is wood. Maybe glass eyes.

very nice Angel

i seem to have a soft spot for goose decoys - i love that one


i thought about this one (which is doubtful it ever was a field decoy as the seller claimed) for too long at an antique show last weekend
the seller said he had another at home and would contact me- never heard back

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...pictureid=8823

Rick, that's beautiful. Too bad he didn't get back to you.

there is another show in that area in a few weeks - since he sold one - i hope he'll bring the other - the issue with goose decoys is flat spaces to display them :)

a poor cell phone pic- but this is one of my favorites

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...pictureid=8824

The story is much too long to tell properly here, but the short form is that some of the decoys I carved years ago showed up on ebay. The seller sent back to me for free, and even paid the $75 shipping. (Oh by the way, I did sent him a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label)

all of the decoys pictured are beautiful...charlie

Angel, that goose decoy of yours looks to be an LL Bean decoy made for Bean's by a company located also in Freeport, Maine. I once got a tour of their facility and saw how they made their cork decoys for Beans.

Allen, thanks for that bit of info.
Big D, you lucky I didn't see those, I would have been all over them.

Angel - The ducks have gone to my kids (as if they needed more) but for $375, I'll ship the geese to you. Only issue is that I won't be able to get to them until April

Allen is correct your Brant is an L.L.Bean decoy carved by George Soule. J.J.