Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup final touches of white painted

final touches of white painted whiskers and ears

born in Versailles

but all are extraordinary miniature works of serious art despite being made for the most part by children

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

another set like them

Very Primitive, Heavily Worked Working and Weighted Duck Decoy painted tin cup final touches of white paintedThe 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