Poplar Branch, North Carolina, circa 1930s, carved and painted wood, large Saunders Foundry ballast.

Length 15 in.

As a teenager, he helped his father with the family market hunting rig operation. He sold his original rig of decoys used in his sinkbox blind to Joseph Knapp in the 1930s. He later made a smaller stand of decoys to support his commercial hunting business.

Old gunning paint, carpenter bee hole on the right side.