I guess I'd want a bit more authentication for $1800, but maybe that's just me. Also I notice is was carved BUY W.H.F...or maybe that was meant to be a subliminal message.

Yea and if you look real closely you can see a piece of shot lodged in the decoy that came from LL Beans gun too.....:rotf::rotf:

It says "Made in Maine" but WHF never worked in Maine that we know of... He lived in Andover, Ma. and worked in Boston as publisher/editor of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines. He did work with L.L. Bean in developing the sneak boat Bean sold and probably some decoys too. The Foster family did own a place on the Maine coast that they vacationed and hunted at.

interesting stories for sure on this duck...charlie

Me thinks Burt Becker owned that decoy....I remember having a dream about a Becker bored Fox and that decoy was in my dream...(-: