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Lot 7051
Delbert "Cigar" Daisey (VA, 1929-2017), Pair of Ruddy Ducks
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Chincoteague, Virginia, circa 1993, carved and painted wood, glass eyes, incised wing feather patterns, wooden keels, each ink stamped DECOY COLLECTION / DOILY E. FULCHER, each branded CIGAR, each in marker 9/93, (drake) RD-42 and (hen) RD-41.

Length 11 in.

From the personal collection of Doily Fulcher, King George, Virginia

Cigar was given his nickname by a game warden when he lost some cigars while stealing ducks from the warden's trap. Daisey and his stories are of folk legend. His life and decoys have been memorialized in a book by Doily Fulcher.

Original paint, no signs of use.