Poplar Branch, North Carolina, circa 1920s, carved and painted wood.

Length 17 in.

Wallace O'Neal, Jr sold his market hunting rig in the early 1920s to Jospeh Knapp. Knapp founded Ducks Unlimited in 1937. Knapp cut the bottoms down on the decoys so they would ride better in the Currituck chop.

Old gunning paint worn to wood on body, working repair to the neck.