Wash Woods, North Carolina, circa 1940s, carved and painted wood, published on page 93 of Gunnin' Birds by Kroghie Andresen.

Length 27.5 in.

From the Personal Collection of Mr. Kroghie Andresen, Charlotte, North Carolina

Purchased from Reggie Waterfield on March 1, 2002. Reggie inherited this decoy from Wilson White.

Wilson White told Reggie Waterfield that he made six swan from balsa wood that washed up on the beach during World War II. Balsa was used as flotation material in life rafts of liberty ships. He hunted these swan decoys in several freshwater ponds on the southern side of the land he inherited below the old Currituck Inlet Club. He never rigged them out since the ponds were small.

Original paint with some light crazing.