Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup a perfect case in point

a perfect case in point

final touches of white painted whiskers and ears

feels like the 70s-style hospitality

another set like them

I've bought and sold a handful of machinists' folk art ladies legs calipers

Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup a perfect case in pointThe more battered the better for me when it comes to old decoys it's the one's that wear their work on their backs (literally) and that show all sorts of losses and or repairs that I find most appealing, both aesthetically and empathetically! This one is most definitely one of those, with holes and bent nails scattered across its carved, black painted body, and a head that seems perhaps to have been salvaged from another and crudely nailed on, making