Dear Helaine and Joe: I purchased decoys at a flea market on Cape Cod in the 1980s and cannot seem to find a match online for the brand name, “Hard,” which is stamped into the bottom of each. Are you ...

BURLINGTON — Decoys may be fake ducks, but the artistry behind creating them is the real deal. The Washington Brant Foundation held its national decoy carving contest Saturday at Holiday Sports in ...

Carved and painted, solid-body form with high head, tack eyes, and lightly carved detail, retaining possibly original painted surface, applied lead weight and iron ring to underside of base ...

J.P. HAND sits at his workbench placing a freshly painted rig of 10 brant decoys into a slot bag while we get ready to hunt in the morning. He constructed each brant from three pieces of Atlantic ...

TILGHMAN — A rare Brant decoy, carved by Ira Hudson, Chincoteague, circa 1920-30 will be a live auction item at the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum’s sixth annual fundraiser, Splendor, to be held from 5 to ...

MOUNT VERNON — The Washington Brant Foundation’s Puget Sound Open Decoy Carving Competition returns Saturday to Burlington’s Maiben Park. The foundation’s annual fundraiser will include carving ...

R. E., Wayne, N.J. Dear R. E.: We would like to have ducked this question because we know so little about hunting decoys. But with more than a little help from our friends -- namely, Russ Goldberger ...