Harkers Island, North Carolina, circa 2005, carved and painted wood, turned heads with glass eyes, relief body and head carvings with exceptional paint schemes, wooden keels, bottoms signed WALTER "BROTHER" GASKILL / 2005 / RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.

Length 19.25 in.

Blue Ribbon winner at Core Sound Decoy Festival 2006, East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival 2006, and Virginia Beach Wildlife Festival 2006.

Original.