Wild Fowl Decoys, Paperback

Joel Barber spent 20 years studying and collecting wild fowl decoys from Nova Scotia to North Carolina. Mr. Barber's authoratative volume is the only text written for the true collector and contains all there is to be known on the subject: how to recognize the locality from which a decoy comes, the world of famous decoy makers, the scarcity of certain types of decoys and more.

Joel Barber was a New York architect who spent 20 years studying and collecting wild fowl decoys. He is also the author of the Derrydale book Long Shore. His collection of decoys is now in Vermont's Shelburne Museum, where it forms the nucleus of the largest and most important public collection in the world.