WHISPERING WINGS
featuring the Wildlife Art of Jim Alexander
Contemporary Antique Decoys
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Decoys represent a unique form of American folk art with origins that go back some 2000 years. In the last 30
years the collecting of decoys has grown in leaps and bounds. As a result of supply and demand gone are the days
of an affordable antique decoy being found. The value of antique decoys has skyrocketed to where prices can
easily range into the six-figures or more with new auction records set every year. This has therefore set the price
range of the antique decoy well beyond the majority of the population interested in collecting decoys.
Thus, the contemporary decoy is born. This style of carving gives a collector the ability to own a decoy with the
characteristics of an original carving without the price of the actual antique. For the carver this provides an
opportunity to emulate well known carvers while adding one’s own personal carving style. The contemporary
antique decoy certainly doesn’t replace the original but compliments any vintage decoy collection.
| RUDDY TURNSTONE Antique Reproduction Lathrop Holmes (1824-1899) Tupelo Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| WOOD DUCK Contemporary Antique Decoy Northern Cedar Wood Acrylics (click on image to enlarge) |
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| LONGTAIL DUCK Contemporary Antique Decoy Northern Cedar Wood Acrylics (click on image to enlarge) |
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| BRANT Antique Reproduction Ira Hudson (1920) Northern Cedar Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| CANADA GOOSE Antique Reproduction Charles E. Shang (1935) Northern Cedar Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| WHISTLING SWAN Antique Reproduction William Holly (1890) Tupelo Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| WHISTLING SWAN (Sleeping) Antique Reproduction Albert Laing (1864) Northern Cedar Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| YELLOWLEGS (Sleeping) Antique Reproduction Massachusetts (Unknown) Circa 1890 Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| LONG -BILLED CURLEW Antique Reproduction Cobb Family(1890) Tupelo Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| YELLOWLEGS(Preening) Antique Reproduction Cape Cod (Unknown) Circa 1880 Tupelo Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
| GOLDEN PLOVER Antique Reproduction Elmer Crowell (1852-1951) Tupelo Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
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| PINTAIL DUCK Contemporary Antique Decoy Northern Cedar Wood Oils (click on image to enlarge) |
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