Golden Eye Male, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Color, North Shore, MA silver bird with quartz and/or to cultivate a pipe

and/or to cultivate a pipe smoking friend just to be able to do so

but for me it brings the form of modernist sculpture to pure make do construction

it’s got a great

Carved of pine with a great dry wood patina and stands up in its own--unusual and very charming

ready to swat at the tiny balls that hover above these tiny nets

Golden Eye Male, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Color, North Shore, MA silver bird with quartz and/or to cultivate a pipeI know this working duck decoy, and its female Golden Eye mate, came from an estate in Newburyport, MA, where, or near where, they were made. I'm no decoy expert and not dedicated to becoming one; I get excited about them for their sculptural qualities, the more primitive the better, and for their surfaces, made better by the years and work they've done. The shape of the dark green painted head on this one, with white cheek, yellow glass eye (on one