Building a Private Collection.
I can no better understand why someone would collect baseball cards or toy tractors as they can understand my reason for collecting duck...
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Ebay Redhead Evaluation
Guest essay by Travis Bryant Currently a Harvey Stevens Redhead Decoy is being offered on Ebay. See Listing. The auction will end on...
Murder on the Postal Express
In October 2012, I agreed to loan a very rare Stevens Mallard hen decoy to the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art for an exhibition. I had...
Firewood
Guest essay by Travis Bryant What is an antique decoy to you? Is it art; a piece of history that tells a story; a woodcarving...
I love decoys and...ratios!?!
A large database gives us the opportunity to extract useful ratios. The larger the sample size – the more accurate the ratios. In each of...
Soldiers in the W.S.O. rig
Sometime around 1890, Harvey Stevens received a large order for decoys from Dr. William S. Overton of Binghamton, New York. Dr. Overton...
Stevens branded shorebirds?
Years ago I'd get a call or an email every month from someone asking if the Stevens Brothers of Weedsport ever made shorebird decoys. The...
Some rules get broken, some don't...
In The Essential Guide To Stevens Decoys, published in 2004, I set forth "Ten Missing Records or Ten Valuable Rules" in Chapter VIII. I...
My card sir...
In the 1880's, the business card of a person offering retail goods or services was known as a Trade Card. Harvey's Trade Card promoted...
We all start with a decoy...
I began collecting decoys on April 20, 1987. I know because I began a handwritten journal about what I found that same day. Like most...
The latest on the earliest...
By 1865 Harvey started producing decoys for the Montezuma Marsh hunters while working as a guide and market hunter. His earliest decoys,...
The cover story about book covers...
I published my softcover book in 2004 as "Volume I" because I expected to follow up with a hardcover edition and pictorial guide. The...
The Runt of all Staple Holes
Guest essay by Travis Bryant This Harvey Stevens Bluebill Sleeper was the very first Stevens Decoy in my collection. It came home with...
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