G&D, Any Favorites?

[Craig Larter]

McGaw decoys bring very little money because his production was lathe produced in huge numbers. His pre 1929 hand chopped decoys sell for higher prices. Most production was divers and sell for a few hundred dollars, blacks made before 1929 bring good prices.

[Bill Murphy]

OK, Craig, here goes. A.J. and I had a long relationship that involved fooling with guns, drinking bourbon, and freeloading at some friends' Eastern Shore Dorcester County RSA. A.J.'s dad and his friends were serious Potomac River waterfowlers, headquartered below Washington D.C. at Fort Washington, Maryland where Henry Bartholomew, "Doc" and Nash Buckingham hunted canvasbacks. A.J.'s dad and his McGaw spread were discussed in a Decoy magazine article a few years ago. When we were in his basement recreation room, having an Ezra Brooks, we were a room away from an overflowing closet full of McGaw canvasbacks, and another room full of his extensive working gun collection. What a life we live.

[Craig Larter]

[QUOTE=Bill Murphy;445031]OK, Craig, here goes. A.J. and I had a long relationship that involved fooling with guns, drinking bourbon, and freeloading at some friends' Eastern Shore Dorcester County RSA. A.J.'s dad and his friends were serious Potomac River waterfowlers, headquartered below Washington D.C. at Fort Washington, Maryland where Henry Bartholomew, "Doc" and Nash Buckingham hunted canvasbacks. A.J.'s dad and his McGaw spread were discussed in a Decoy magazine article a few years ago. When we were in his basement recreation room, having an Ezra Brooks, we were a room away from an overflowing closet full of McGaw canvasbacks, and another room full of his extensive working gun collection. What a life we live.[/QUOT E]

Your a lucky man to have participated in the last days of the Susquehanna flats golden era of hunting. How sad it is that a once meca is now just a shadow of it's by gone days. We only have the wooden decoys to remind us of what was once was.