Featured Wood Decoy

Any suggestions on the signature?

 

Thanks. Likely by Ronnie Wade.

 

Looks really crude for it to be by Wade ( http://kiscrapbook.knottsislandonline.com/ronniewade.html ) but I don't know anything more than I found out from a google search so don't listen to me.

 

Could be an earlier work. Btw, what kind of bird is that supposed to be?

 

It's a sucker decoy

 

Drillbill balloonbird, last known individual died Feb. 16, 1946, at the San Diego zoo, section B. Very sad.

 

Spring, for real or a joke. I can’t find anything on such a bird.

 

Dude... There is no section B at the San Diego zoo.



From pinterest linked to eBay, but long gone so no further I'd, sorry. Just this caption:

tercrwfrd Maarouf saved to Ducks n' Such
Antique Folk Art, Primitive Duck, Root Head; Coot Decoy North Carolina

Don't know that much about Wade's bariety, but root Head decoys are a well known genre. *like*

 

Kard, I shoulda put a smiley after that but smileys make me sad. Sry. That thing looked so goofy I jus’ had to have some fun with it.

As far as an “earlier work” by Wade, I agree, looks like he may have made it at about age 6.

 

Dude. (I looked it up, too)

 

LOL, oh dear, this duck decoy thing is getting outa control!

 

If I am correct this is the white billed variety, which was always very rare (since recorded history). The last one was spotted in the wild in 1903.

 

Snipe!

 

(in California, anyway) snipe hunting is a little prank played on camping trips at night. Victims are invited to join in a hunt and taught the snipe "call."

Then the perps stop calling and sit back, listening to their target and waiting for the "aha" moment.

Of course, my older brothers pulled it on me - it only works once, though lol.

We thought it was an entirely made up creature.

 

Shades of Spin and Marty!