Painted Wooden Folk Art Wood Duck in Excellent Palette fishing decoy short vertical tear--about parallel to

short vertical tear--about parallel to the dog's eye

one is a little narrower at about 2 1/2" across

perhaps 18th century in fact

This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange

Painted Wooden Folk Art Wood Duck in Excellent Palette fishing decoy short vertical tear--about parallel toNot an especially old one, but I couldnt resist it for the determined effort of its maker to fully honor the fantastic patterns of the wood duck in a most excellent palette. It is signed Paul E. Bickford of Southhampton NH on the underside of the base, indicating, I assume, that its maker was pretty pleased with their efforts, too. Theres a repaired and painted over split on the yellow of the legs; I might guess this was made in two pieces to begin