Handsome Antique Black Duck Green Bill Working Decoy Signed carnival toss but do think it has

but do think it has a fair amount of age

and in 1763 establishing the Governor Dummer School

but I'm not placing it

5 3/4" tall x 3 7/8" a widest

and they make dusting off the desk or work table a pleasure

Handsome Antique Black Duck Green Bill Working Decoy Signed carnival toss but do think it hasI am not a great expert on decoys, but I look at them a lot, and wait for one to strike me as especially beautiful and elegant, or awkward or empathetic! I'm more interested in the stoic than the fancy, and this black duck won me for the sensitively carved shape of its head and body, and for the old green paint on its bill, and for being super heavy and substantial, and for the fact that from one side especially it appears to have double eyes one