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with zig zag stitching holding the fabric tight to the inside covers
late 19th/very early 20th century or so I would guess
from their profiles and expressions to the detailing on the balls to the dense field of pin prick engraving for the ground
black ink on laid paper
The hand-forged large nail itself of course is beautiful
Handsome Antique Black Duck Green Bill Working Decoy Signed parrots with zig zag stitching holdingI 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
