Decoys For Sale and Viewing

New - Excellent Wildfowler Decoys and Barnegat Bay Decoys listed below. Please write us soon for availability.

Looking for a Tim Grounds Super Mag Poly Carb short reed goose call. Please write it you have one for sale. Thanks, Jason

Decoys

Point Pleasant Wildfowler Black Duck Decoy -EXTREMELY RARE! #IV of VI.

Rare black duck decoy ,one of six. Quote from Wildfowler Decoys by Cowan and LaFountain: "Skip Thompson, a friend of Bill Keim, ordered six magnum black duck for himself and Alan Liu that were made on a standard, hollow goose body. Charlie planned to make 100 of these, but probably did not because only these six are known."

This decoy retains a very crisp Point Pleasant Wildfowler "hot" brand, the roman number #IV (#4 of six mentioned above.) Just to the right of the brand the owner engraved his name "E.L. Thompson." Original gunning decoy line, even the original mud, very minor gunning wear, premeir paint by W. Keim.

Mr. Thompson (Skip) and Alan Liu were gunning partners that had special order decoys made for their gunning purposes. This decoy and the canada goose below was purchased directly from the Thompson gunning rig a few years ago. This is the first time it has been offered publically.

$450.00 + 20 shipping.

Point Pleasant Wildfowler Canada Goose - Wildfowler Point Pleasant Canada Goose, from the E.L. (Skip) Thompson collection. Signed on bottom by Point Pleasant Wildfowler's premeir painter William Keim. Dated 1964, #1. ---- $225. +$ 20 Shipping.

Point Pleasant Wildfowler Brant Decoy -Life size. This decoy is an excellent example of the life sized model, with all original paint and minor gunning wear. This decoy is constructed of very good balsa with circular Point Pleasant brand, and full original keel. This is an excellent example of a life sized point pleaseant Wildfowler Brant.$225.00 + 10. shipping.

Barnegat Bay Factory Bufflehead Pair - I have a pair similar to the decoys pictured below for sale. The pair I have are from the Art Birdsall rig, then Gutwein rig. Both decoys have sleeper or resting head positions. An original note from Art Birdsall comes with the decoys explaining their provenance. Please write for pictures. The pair below are not the pair for sale but from the same rig and same body styles. $ 325.00 includes shipping.

Barnegat Bay Factory Canvasback Drake - in-use repaint to back of decoy. Rig mate to the pair above only repainted on back. The repaint is nicely done. 60 + 10 shipping. Not pictured.

Barnegat Bay Factory Broadbill Drake - Shourds Model $125.00 + 10 s.Written on bottom in pen - Barnegat Bay Decoys, Point Pleasant, NJ, 1980 Signed by owner Rick Brown, and employees of the day Ar Birdsall & Chip Allsopp.

Nearly all of the Barnegat Bay Decoys pictured in the book are from our collection except for the Widgeon pair as I sold them after I sent off the pictures to Dick LaFountain.

Barnegat Bay Decoys - See pages 166 - 171 of Wildfowler Decoys b7 LaFountain and Cowan for more information of Barnegat Bay decoys.

Nearly all of the pictured Barnegat Bay decoys in the book Wildfowler Decoys are from the our collection.

Below and throughout my website you will find other information and pictures of Barnegat Bay Decoys.You can also check Rick Brown's CurrentClassicsDecoys website to find a past article and other information on Barnegat Bay Decoys. Below you will find some fine examples of Barnegat Bay Decoys for sale.

All three decoys makers are pictured in the book Wildfowler Decoys and American Factory Decoys by Fleckenstien.

Please Note: If interested in one of these decoys, contact me by email.

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The Fine Print: Digital pictures of any of the decoys available, including additional photos of ones provided above. Copies of the articles are available upon request. I do have some of the magazines above for sale also. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for your interest.

Shipping not included unless otherwise stated. $10.00 for shipping per decoy purchased. Decoys can be returned and price of decoy refunded with no questions ask. Shipping and insurance not refunded.

Exceptionally Rare Barnegat Bay Decoys Woodduck Pair, BBay oval Brand, BBay Common Goldeneye Drake

Below : Three different styles of Blue bill - Broadbills 4"body, Broadbills 5" body, Shourds Broadbill.

Barnegat Bay Decoys are extremely collectible and in some cases very similar to Wildfowler Decoys. Similarities include body style, paint patterens, and the site in which they were produced. Barnegat Bay Decoys, owned by Fredrick "Rick" Brown Jr., purchased the Point Pleasant Wildfowler Decoy factory site and began producing quality gunning decoys. The factory made decoys from 1977 until 1992 Rick Brown and crew made gunning decoys and adapted to the ever changing decoy market. Rick kept the doors open until 1996 but production was very limited. Decoys were made for decorative purposes as well as Duck Unlimited banguet items. You can currently find Rick and his hand carvings at www.currentclassics.com

To find Barnegat Bay Decoys is another story. These decoys were collectible as people walked out the door of the shop and took on great appeal to the gunners using them. Made totally of cedar and never balsa these were quality gunning decoys. The similarities of BBay decoys and Wildfowlers make them tricky to identify. I hesitate to admit but I have seen quite a few greenwing and bluewing teal on dealers tables and ebay sell as wildfowlers.

In short there are a few characteristics that give way to telling WF's vs. BBay.

These include: keel width, acrylic paint, cedar bodies vs. pine or balsa, eye color, and the slash over the eye and wing feathers on divers, and a small dowel sized putty "hole" at the crest of the head (where the screw was placed to hold the head on to the body). These characteristics are offered only as guidelines, and suggestions on what to look for when determining whether a decoy is a BBay or Wildfowler.

In the new book, Wildfowler Decoys, produced by Dick Cowan and Dick LaFountain - my father and I were able to provide information and nearly all the pictures from the book for the barnegat bay section. The majority of the photos were taken at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, my fathers home in Old DuQuoin, or in my home town of Greenville, Illinois.

It was my pleasure to to provide information, pictures, and written documentation to help collectors, old and new, to identify and enjoy collecting Barnegat Bay decoys.

The list below links you to photographs of decoy samples my family collects. Most of these are not for sale.

Please Note: All links to photographs and descriptions open in another window. All of these photos are from my family's personal collection, but they also serve as a sample of what I buy, sell, and collect. While the For Sale list is above, these can give you a broader idea of what catches our eyes.

Some of the pictures below were taken at the Greenville, Illinois Public Library. I was allowed to display many of my decoys there for public viewing.