SOLD Elegant Old Hand-carved Wooden Ice Fishing Decoy acorns for its pale aqua color

for its pale aqua color and proportions and embossed text but especially for its silvery neck

I could look at this every day forever

Note there is some reflection visible in the photos

including at least one that featured a motor--all preceding the Erector set

which interlock to allow for even spacing between letters

SOLD Elegant Old Hand-carved Wooden Ice Fishing Decoy acorns for its pale aqua colorI was thrilled to find a box filled with several old folk art ice fishing decoys yesterday in Maine, all made by the same person I believe. I am not an expert on these (or fish, so I'm no good identifying the type represented), but my eye tells me these are really wonderful examples. The rest were exuberantly, colorfully painted, but on this one the wood of the body is unpainted except for the eyes, a very subtle smattering of red dots around the