Steve Sanford
Well-known member
Good morning, All~
Lots of gunning decoys at Pencil Brook Decoy Infirmary (VERY nearby Pencil Brook Boatworks) over the past couple of months. One poor soul wandered over from the Left Coast - an old balsa-bodied Wildfowler Wigeon that had worked hard for many seasons - then been burned badly in a fire.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE profile.JPG
I do not know whether the cracks were from the soaking-and-drying of many seasons - or the heat of the fire.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE oblique.JPG
The head and keel were still soundly attached.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE bottom.JPG
Note the lost wood along the starboard chine.....
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE bottom oblique.JPG
The crevasse through the crown was deep and long. Note, too, the base of the head mortised into the body.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE head oblique.JPG
I'm thinking this is an Old Saybrook bird - from the remnants of the nice scratch paint on the neck.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE head profile.JPG
Here is a Superior model Wi(d)geon from 1960 - which makes it a bird from the Quogue factory.
View attachment WF Wigeon - 1960 Superior Widgeon.jpg
Continued....
SJS
Lots of gunning decoys at Pencil Brook Decoy Infirmary (VERY nearby Pencil Brook Boatworks) over the past couple of months. One poor soul wandered over from the Left Coast - an old balsa-bodied Wildfowler Wigeon that had worked hard for many seasons - then been burned badly in a fire.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE profile.JPG
I do not know whether the cracks were from the soaking-and-drying of many seasons - or the heat of the fire.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE oblique.JPG
The head and keel were still soundly attached.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE bottom.JPG
Note the lost wood along the starboard chine.....
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon BEFORE bottom oblique.JPG
The crevasse through the crown was deep and long. Note, too, the base of the head mortised into the body.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE head oblique.JPG
I'm thinking this is an Old Saybrook bird - from the remnants of the nice scratch paint on the neck.
View attachment E Henry Wildfowler Wigeon - BEFORE head profile.JPG
Here is a Superior model Wi(d)geon from 1960 - which makes it a bird from the Quogue factory.
View attachment WF Wigeon - 1960 Superior Widgeon.jpg
Continued....
SJS