Joel Barber was a New York architect who spent 20 years studying and collecting wild fowl decoys. He is also the author of the Derrydale book Long Shore. His collection of decoys is now in Vermont's Shelburne Museum, where it forms the nucleus of the largest and most important public collection in the world.
While vintage decoys are fetching high prices as antiques, they
began life as hunters' tools used to lure ducks from the sky to the
dinner plate. Barber's 1934 volume as long been a standard for
carving and molding duck and geese decoys. The text offers numerous
pictures as well as patterns and loads of advice on creating the
decoys and deploying them, along with information on the real
birds. This book now will do double duty with bird hunters and
antiques hunters.
*Library Journal*
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