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MINT SUPERB ORIG PAINT 1968 HERTERS Model 1893 GREEN-WINGED TEAL Wood Duck Decoy a.imagelink {color:#000000;} a:hover.imagelink {color:#000000;} a:visited.imagelink {color:#00A8A8;} a.imagelink img.saleimage { border: 2px solid #000000; } a:visited.imagelink img.saleimage { border: 2px solid #00A8A8; }

PRISTINE, ABSOLUTELY MINT CONDITION!!

c1968HERTER'S "Model 1893"; DRAKE GREEN-WINGED TEAL;Wood Duck Decoy; (Waseca, Minnesota)

• THESE MODEL 1893 DECOYS WERE THE LAST WOODEN DUCK DECOYS THE STORIED COMPANY WOULD EVER MAKE!!
• AWESOMEHAND-FINISHED, SEMI-ALERTHEADwith EXCELLENT LONG BODY STYLE!!

OUTSTANDING & INCREDIBLE ORIGINAL PAINT and IMPORTED HERTER'SAMBER GLASS EYES!

OUTSTANDING CARVING: RECESSES IN THE BACK and REAR SIDES GIVES THE CONTOURED WINGS PRECISE AND SMOOTH DEFINITION!!!

Although Produced as Decoratives, these Solid Wood Decoys Could Have Easily Been Rigged and Been More Than Effective Hunting Tools!!

SHIPPING INCLUDES INSURANCE!!!!

This Outstanding and Beautiful DrakeGreen-Winged Teal duckdecoy up for sale is one of the Special Series of Decorative decoys that Herter's produced during the time that the sales of their working decoys had run its course and was disappearing quickly. The Herter's Model 1893 line of Wood Duck and Waterfowl Decoys, was a line of decorative decoys that the Waseca, Minnesota company launched in 1965 and manufactured them through around 1980. Unlike this decoy up for sale, many were cold-stamped HERTER'S, INC. 1893. The series was comprised of all Drake decoys and over the course of the production run they manufactured 31 different species of Waterfowl. During the time that these Model 1893 decoys were made, from roughly 1965 to 1980, different species of male ducks had various production runs.For instance, Drake Wood Ducks were part of their assortment from 1971 until the line of decoys was canceled in c1980. This decoy up for sale has one of themore realisticpaint schemesthat any of the various species would be afforded. This excellent little decoy has a mix of air-brushed detail paint and hand done detail brush work. The hand painting gives nice detail to the wing and tail areas and the breast, back and sides all have wonderful air-brushed detail. The Head on this teal has very nice carving that is so fine that it gives the appearance of feathering with the textured surface.

Herter's, which operated primarily as a mail order company in addition to their Waseca, Minnesota headquarters and flag-ship store, years later also opened a satellite location in Mitchell, South Dakota. Both store locations offered these Model 1892 decoys, in addition to obviously being available as a mail order item. Thus, the decoys can be found with no price tags on the bottom, as well as many that either have the Waseca or Mitchell store price stickers on them.These decoyswere produced around and roughly the same time period as the majority of the production run of Wildfowler decoys that were manufactured in Babylon,New York. While Wildfowler had no retail outletsof their own at the time, the Massa's were successful at marketing their decorative Wildfowler decoys through retailers like Ethan Allen, Flower Time (which became Franks Nursery and Crafts), Burdines, Bullocks and Macys. Herter's and Wildfowler had been very successful at producing, marketing and selling hunting decoys until the advent of plastic decoys began to gradually capture the lion's share of the hunting decoy market in the late 1960's. To supplementthe sagging sales of their wood and cork hunting decoys that was permanently being replaced by plastic decoys, both Herter's and Wildfowler aggressively attacked the decorative decoy market and this DrakeGreen-Winged Tealdecoy up for sale is one of those earlyentrants into the decorative decoy market. The decorative decoymarket segment lasted several years, but was not a long-term and viable option to replace their hunting decoy market, whichinvariably contributed to the demise of both companies as hunting decoys was one of their core sales and margin productcategories. This decoy is in excellent condition with absolutely no edge rubbing from handling and basically in mint, pristine condition without even a hint of fading to the paint; it is just that mint. The decoy is 12-3/8" long x 3-5/8" wide x 4-3/8" tall and weighs 12-ozs. Nice piece of the evolvinghistory of decoys to add to your collection of wood duck decoys and shorebirds. If you have any questions or would like any additional photos feel free to email me. Thanks for looking.

BELOW ARE PICTURES OF OTHER MODEL 1893 HERTER'S DECOYS:

NICE LITTLE BUFFLEHEAD THAT I ALSO HAVE ON !!!

BEAUTIFUL WOOD DUCK WITH THE BEST OF PAINT YOU'LL SEE ON THIS SPECIES IN THE 1893 MODEL!!!!!

A PICTURE OF THE BOTTOM OF THE SAMEWOOD DUCK IN THE 1893 MODEL!!!!!

A CLOSE-UPOF THE BOTTOM OF THE SAMEWOOD DUCK!!!

A PHOTO OF ANOTHER WOOD DUCK IN THE 1983!!!!!

(Note the Dramatic Difference between this Wood Duck and the One Above. The Constantly Evolving Paint Directionand the Difference By Artist/Painter Has Made These Models More and More Collectible and Very Rare in Some Paint Schemes by Species)

VERY NICE1893 MODEL RUDDY DUCK,THE BACK FEATHER PAINT IS ALMOST IDENTICAL TOTHAT ON THISBLACK DUCK DECOY UP FOR sale!!

VERYSCARCE1893 MODEL SHOVELER,MAYBE NOT THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF PAINT JOBS BUT ITS RARITY MAKES IT COLLECTIBLE!!

EXCELLENT LITTLEMODEL 1893 BLUE-WINGED TEAL,THIS LITTLE BEAUTY BLENDS A MYRIAD OF PAINT PATTERNS TO ACHIEVE A VERY CONTRASTING SET OF SCHEMES!!!!

A BASICYET CONCISE PAINT SCHEME FOR THISMODEL 1893 REDHEAD,NOTE HOW BURLAP WAS USED TO HELP PRODUCE THIS GRADUALLY CHANGING PAINT SCHEME!!!!