With the weather not cooperating and having to wait around for some phonecalls this morning. I finished up another project. A couple of years back some of my wife's relatives gave her an old duck decoy that was hand carved, not sure how old it was, but someone put a lot of time into it. The head is moveable and everything was hand carved and chiseled. I didn't take a picture before, the stain on it was very old and it had been painted once, I think water had taken most of it off. There was one chip in the tail that I repaired and made look like the rest of the bird. I decided to paint it like a mallard drake because that's the most common duck we have in the area. Not sure if there was a collector's value since it looks like something someone made and not produced but now the wife likes how it looks and it can officially stay on the mantle.

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Vaya con Dios

I don't know anything about collecting, I just know that you did some very nice work restoring someone's hard work. Your reward is being able to display it.

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Carpriver.

Nice restoration. Unfortunately it may have pretty seriously reduced any collector value, but I'd keep it on the mantel if it were mine.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Nice job. There's something about duck decoys that make a room a little warmer, and a cluttered shelf a little more organic.

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