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Old Antique Duck Decoys from the Chesapeake bay, Maryland.  Vintage wood duck decoys made the old Chesapeake way with hand tools. Classic carver models from the Susquehanna flats on the Upper-bay down to Crisfield, Maryland and Chincoteague, Virginia. Ward, Hudson, Holly and other folk art decoy and shorebird replica, reproduction and interpretive decoys.  We are both CHESAPEAKE WINGS DECOYS, home of the *worlds finest investment grade contemporary waterfowl decoys and the internets largest information and research decoy site. Be sure to visit various sections of this site for many in depth articles and photographs for a virtual educational tour of the ways and life of the old Chesapeake waterman decoy carvers. The Chesapeake bay holds a unique position in North American waterfowl hunting history.  Like no other area in the world, waterfowl hunting and decoy carving became an institution, industry and religion on the Chesapeake bay, truly the Decoy Capital of the country and the cradle of American Wildfowling.                               

Some of the old wood decoy carvers we cover on this site include the Ward Brothers, Cobb Island Carvers, Hog Island Carvers, Ira Hudson, Lem Dudley, Lee Dudley, Dave Umbrella Watson, Charles Birch, John Daddy Holly, Jim Holly, John Graham, Lem Ward, Steve Ward, John Blair, Ben Dye, Joe Dye, John Hanson Downes, Joe Crumb, John Wessel, Madision Mitchell, Frank Ward, Nathan Cobb, Walter Brady, Bill Haverin, Norris Pratt, Robert Andrews, Rod Sweeney, Alma Fitch, Jim Cockey, Millers Island Gun Club, Bishops Head Gun club, Sam Barnes, Milton Dean, Luther Lee Nottingham, Elkanah Cobb, Aurther Cobb, Norman Hudson, John Vickers, Dick Hipple, Glen L. Martin, Leonard Pryor, Bob McGaw, Sebastian Taylor, George Lockard, Milton Watson, Bob Litzenberg, Ike Philips, Accomack club, Jim Doughty, John Haff, Charles Clark, William Matthews, Miles Hancock, Wally Algard, Summerfield Wilson, Henry Gilbert, Doug Jester, Eli Doughty, Griffen Moore, Charles Nelson Barnard, Thomas Isdell, Jim Currier, Jess Urie, Taylor Boyd, Lloyd Tyler, John Glen, Mike Robinson, Lloyd Sterling, Charlie Joiner, Ed Parsons, Richard Tilghman, Ed Phillips, Scott Jackson, Joe Travers, Elliott Brothers, Clarence Pap Crighton, Lum Fletcher, Herb Barnes, Charlie Bryan, Pied Jones, George Washington Barnes, Paul Gibson, Remington Farms, Horace Graham, Stanley Evans, Ed Sampson.