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Unread 02-19-2017, 12:17 PM   #1
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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.
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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

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

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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)
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all of the decoys pictured are beautiful...charlie
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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.
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Allen, thanks for that bit of info.
Big D, you lucky I didn't see those, I would have been all over them.
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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
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Allen is correct your Brant is an L.L.Bean decoy carved by George Soule. J.J.
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