vintage-fire-light-northampton-county-virginia
Lot 2232
Vintage Fire Light, Northampton County, Virginia
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Fire lighting was one of the market gunner's tactics to kill a lot of ducks with one shot. He would pole his skiff up to raft of birds; they would be blinded by the light and the gunner could sometimes kill twenty to thirty birds with one shot. This tactic was outlawed in 1918.

Height 19 in.; Width 12.75 in.

Former collection of DC North

Removal board in the back a likely replacement.