Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition

Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition

Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition
Brand New Rare Pair of Sean Sutton Blue Wing Teal. Anyone who collects decoys will certainly know Sean Sutton's decoys. All of Sean Sutton's decoys are made by hand using hand tools and painted in oil. Below is an article from the Philadelphia Newspaper regarding Sean Sutton and another famous carver Bob White. By Robert Strauss FOR THE INQUIRER (Philadelphia Newspaper). Bob White sprays a bit of salt over the partridge he bagged a few days before. It will soon be lunchtime, the middle of a perfect day - a little reading, some schmoozing, a bit of carving for the turkey decoy he will use later in the month. "I like to hunt, and I keep and cook everything I shoot, " White said. I grew up on the Delaware River and never really left it.

I've hunted and fished and trapped and carved birds for pretty much my whole life. White, 67, of Tullytown, started carving decoys about 60 years ago, when he was growing up in the Chambersburg section of Trenton.

Then it was so that his father and he and his friends could use them for hunting. It was a wild chance, but it ended up making him a legend. "Bob's the last of the old school, the man who has made decoy-carving an art, " said Sean Sutton, himself a noted decoy-carver out of Paulsboro. I retired two years ago so I could do more hunting and fishing and whatever I wanted to. Oh, I still do a lot for myself, said White, showing off the big hen turkey he intends to use to lure the one wild turkey due him on his license. Both White and Sutton say decoy carving has gone from a practical hunting tool to a craft to folk art in the last four decades.

They made a distinctive bird - skinny and light, with cut wings and carved tails. White said that decoys elsewhere and earlier, especially those made by American Indians, were crude and not true to the way a bird looked. Still, Blair and English mostly worked other jobs.

Hunters, at least through the 1950s and 1960s, pretty much made their own decoys. "Then the art folks started discovering us, " said White. He said he likes the older decoys he made better than the "art" ones. They were light and durable and usable.

What I did later were good in other ways. The colors were perfect and the carvings were true, but they wouldn't stand up very long if you tried to put them in a pond and hunt over them.

Sutton, is quitting his heavy-machine operator's job this spring and going into carving full time, having waited for his wife, Julia, to finish her nursing degree. His basement shop in his Delaware Avenue home, not far from the river, contains little heavy machinery - just a few power saws. Even those he does not use much. Carvers generally do them in pairs - male and female.

Neither White nor Sutton has ever advertised. Sutton does go to some trade shows, but mostly just to keep his name in circulation. "It is a community where people find out about you, " he said of decoy carving. Sutton's birds are detailed and have intricate carvings, while White's tend to be simpler. Both use cedar from a supplier in Maine who kiln-dries it.

"You could use Jersey cedar, " said Sutton, but after a year, sometimes the sap bleeds out and will ruin the paint. They prefer oil-based paint, which tends to hold the detail better. White said that when he was a boy, he and his older brother, Jim, used to strip the cork out of old industrial refrigerators at the Peter Cracker dump near their house, then collect pine from fruit boxes the A&P grocery would throw out.

He would laminate the pine strips with standard glue and use the cork for heads. Sometimes I wish I still had some of them. With the rage for folk art, who knows what they might bring?

He said with a laugh. He goes to shows now and buys and resells decoys, though he prizes an old John English black duck he keeps with others in his basement collection. On occasion, though, he runs into an early Bob White on the antiques circuit. Then I sell them again for more than that. The item "Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition" is in sale since Sunday, February 07, 2016. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Hunting\Vintage Hunting\Duck Decoys". The seller is "poppi57" and is located in Burlington, Connecticut. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, TR, BR, CL, CO, CR, PA, TT, GT, HN, JM.
Duck Decoy Sean Sutton Pair of Blue Wing Teal Spotless/Mint Condition


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