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has his works in their collection. He was given his nickname in 1945 by John
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and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs. He had carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally used cork or wood as his medium. He carved his first duck out of balsa wood in 1940 at his father's wood shop. The
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in 1973, as a present for his wife. That was the only fully decorative decoy he had ever made, and was featured in
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magazine, June 1980, page 826. The decoy was estimated to be worth $ 150,000.
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132:black ducks
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272:Categories
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