Wildfowler Decoy Company Blue-winged Teal Pair

Wildfowler Decoys (1939-1957) Old Saybrook, CT, c. 1940 A pair of superior model, solid-bodied, pine decoys with their original keels. Both are in original paint, the drake with craquelure, the hen with age lines in the bill. Both have gunning wear and tight age cracks along the bottom.

Literature: Richard Cowen and Richard LaFountain, "Wildfowler Decoys," Lewes, DE, 2004, p. 31, similar decoys illustrated.