Stacy, North Carolina, circa 1957, carved and painted wood, incised DEF, signed in pen ELDON WILLIS / ELMER SALTER / ELDON HEAD.

Length 13 in.

From the hunting rig of Doily Fulcher, presented to him as a Christmas gift by his father in 1957.

This redhead is from the famous Doily Earl Fulcher 1957 Christmas hunting rig. His father gifted him a rig of twenty redheads and fifteen blackheads. Eldon and Elmer used the best wood, copper nails, and Whitehurst ballast weights. Doily hunted this rig until 1967 and fortunately never repainted them.

Original paint, wear to wood on left side of the breast and on front part of the neck.