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Wood duck decoy sells for $1.26M
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:13 pm
The decoy that went for the highest price was a wood duck carved by Joseph Lincoln in the early 1900s. Lincoln was a renowned decoy carver based in Massachusetts. The wood duck decoy is exceptional not only because of its beauty and quality, but because Lincoln rarely carved woody dekes.
At the April 23 auction, the decoy went for a whopping $1,260,000.
Would you hunt with it?
At the April 23 auction, the decoy went for a whopping $1,260,000.
Would you hunt with it?
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Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:16 pm to weagle1999
I’d buy a replica for two hundy.
I don’t fully understand art.
Still can’t understand why the Wu Tang album went for astronomical amounts.
I don’t fully understand art.
Still can’t understand why the Wu Tang album went for astronomical amounts.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:30 pm to weagle1999
Ironic since woodies don’t decoy.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 9:10 pm to weagle1999
I have one of those. I need to check and see what it's worth!
Posted on 6/16/26 at 9:10 pm to White Bear
They do when you set a blind and throw decoys where they are roosting lol.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 10:02 pm to White Bear
Killed many of woodducks over mojos baw.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 6:48 am to dstone12
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Still can’t understand why the Wu Tang album went for astronomical amounts.
Because Wu Tang is forever. Duh.
I wish I would have carved a woody decoy when I was still into it. I did a few mallards, my brother has them at his house now. I have a smaller mallard drake that I carved/painted on my desk at work.
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 6:51 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:30 am to weagle1999
When you have ALOT more money than I have, you do things like this.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 12:10 pm to tigerfoot
Wonder what the Cap Gains are on something like that? 
Posted on 6/17/26 at 1:16 pm to weagle1999
quote:DONT SHOOT MY DECOY!!!!
Would you hunt with it?
Posted on 6/17/26 at 1:21 pm to White Bear
They do decoy. Not great, but do decoy.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 3:19 pm to White Bear
quote:
Ironic since woodies don’t decoy.
Migrant woodies decoy about like teal and ringnecks....with abandon. Resident woodies know where they are and if you ain't where they are going or on the path they ain't interested. Woodies and ringnecks are about the only duck we have consistently in Georgia in most areas...they will most certainly decoy if they ain't local and haven't gotten stale...only happens a few times a season in a memorable season but when a front is right they are as easy to decoy as ducks get....
Posted on 6/17/26 at 3:24 pm to weagle1999
Value based on rarity, certainly not quality. I have carved woody dekes that look almost identical to that one...in fact the first pattern book I had was supposedly based on Lincoln's decoys....and it sold millions of copies worldwide. Those patterns were supposedly developed by sections of actual Lincoln Decoys....I think that was a damn lie because they are nearly identical to most patterns in most commercial pattern collections. Lincoln did not, that I am aware of, carve laminated decoys so there were no patterns and certainly not using a band saw.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 10:00 am to AwgustaDawg
Wood ducks are our main bird because they are in abundant where I hunt. Once they know the lake it's mostly pass shooting with the occasional single falling in. I put a dozen decoys away from my spread around a cypress tree. When migraters hit, they hit those decoys like nobody's business. Not in the spread but right where the wood duck decoys are.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:14 pm to dstone12
quote:
I don’t fully understand art.
It’s called money laundering
Posted on 6/20/26 at 10:15 am to Gee Grenouille
Brilliant, never thought of that. It all makes sense to me now
Posted on 6/20/26 at 8:57 pm to tigerfoot
I could be a billionaire and wouldn’t pay that for a decoy
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