ducksmuggler wrote:I for one am still trying to deal with what them dusharme decoys went for Fri.
All that said the best speaker was the last one!!!
At the auction? What did it go for?
Commissioner Tom or Steve's quiz?
cstemig wrote:Some of those olds dekes command some serious $$.
Original paint--unretouched, and varifiable who made it, and scarcity of species and/or pose of the decoy, the scarcity of the makers decoys and if he is well known maker are all key to highest dollar values. One small detail can be the difeence of a $500 decoy Vs a $1500 one in the really collectable ones. I remember about 10 years ago debating if I should plunk down $1150 for a hen Canvasback OP (original paint) Challenge grade Mason. I did not do it, but it was difficult decision. I (and others) thought $1000 was top value for it.
Musher wrote: Good idea about the long weekend. My wife would be at the show for sure. She's a bit of decoy nut.
Next year it is the 3rd through the 6th of Feb, so a week before Valentines. I suggest if she is really into it, get here by late Thursday afternoon so she can go room to room in the evening, and take in the full members only showing (with auction) on Friday. Sat you could do the Symposium and she could head to MOA. And then head back Sunday.
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God, help me be the man that my dog thinks that I am.