Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup and the box stands level

and the box stands level and sturdy on four stacked

beauty and excellence of a fine piece of penmanship rests on a few points

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

sent to a "Fellow Member" reports that the Fellows had "decided on this emblem" (though haven't started on buttons yet)

another set like them

Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup and the box stands levelThe 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