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Title: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: qochoc on July 22, 2012, 01:45:24 PM

Can't find a makers mark on the one duck, but would love people opinions and thoughts on age and value

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-56-13_185.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-56-22_718.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-56-02_268.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-55-50_169.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-55-38_160.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/qochoc/2012-07-22_11-55-21_579.jpg)

Thanks

jim

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: mart on July 22, 2012, 02:06:45 PM

These could be anytime from 40`s to now !! They are using decoys not the decorative hand painted collectable ones !!  They were in lakes and ponds, thrown in the back of PU trucks, probably with the dead ducks if they shot any then stored in a shop or storage bldg till next season !!  Value,, repaint them and find a duck hunting enthusiast and you might get $10. each !!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 22, 2012, 02:19:31 PM

Decorators are using these right and left.  They range from $25 - $80 in my neck of the woods.

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: Rauville on July 22, 2012, 02:30:06 PM

They could have been made in Pascagoula, MS by PADCO (Pascagoula Decoy Co.)1941 - 1960. That angled undercut tail on the mallard drake looks like their style. Probably about 1950 era. Retail price around here would be about $45 each.
The "KD" brand would have been a past owner's initials.

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: mart on July 22, 2012, 03:05:52 PM

Too many duck hunters here !!  Won`t even get close to that in my neck of the woods !!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 22, 2012, 04:13:37 PM

Quack Quack

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: mart on July 22, 2012, 08:04:23 PM

LOL !!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: ghopper1924 on July 23, 2012, 05:25:55 AM

I would just clean them up and use them as-is, for decorative purposes.

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 23, 2012, 10:55:32 AM

Got another question....are your solid wood or does it appear to have canvas applied to the body?

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: mart on July 23, 2012, 04:06:30 PM

KC,, you can see pattern on all of them !! Never saw a canvas covered decoy but I admit I was wondering if it had something applied !!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: Rauville on July 23, 2012, 04:26:47 PM

Quote from: KC on July 23, 2012, 10:55:32 AM

Got another question....are your solid wood or does it appear to have canvas applied to the body?

These would be wooden lathe turned decoys with the rough ridges left to simulate feathers...at least that's the way the companies promoted them at the time. In reality, it was the cheapest way to make a decoy.

(I don't have it, but there is an entire book available that features the Pascagoula, MS decoy industry and their products.)

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 23, 2012, 06:35:32 PM

If you search canvas back decoy ducks....it is a whole 'nutha kind of collectible decoy duck!  It added texture and interest as well as prolonged the life/use of the duck!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: qochoc on July 23, 2012, 08:23:00 PM

No Canvas, they are turned on a lathe

Jim

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: ghopper1924 on July 23, 2012, 08:32:26 PM

Perhaps you're confusing Canvasback ducks, a species of duck, with decoys made with applied canvas as a technique.  ;D

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 23, 2012, 08:58:33 PM

I was raised they were called canvas back decoy ducks....with applied canvas on the back!  :)  I guess it is just an accent in the south!  :)

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: ghopper1924 on July 24, 2012, 05:40:33 AM

Good one!

Canvas backed duck decoys to attract Canvasback ducks! ;D

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: mart on July 24, 2012, 09:02:22 AM

Same as wood decoys for wood ducks ????  Interesting theory !!

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: ghopper1924 on July 24, 2012, 11:15:08 AM

Good one!! ;D

Title: Re: Old Wooden Duck Decoys
Post by: KC on July 25, 2012, 01:35:00 AM

Yepper!  :)  LOL