Connecticut Decoys: Carvers and Gunners
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Pub. 1987. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering on front cover and spine, decorative end pages, yellow dust jacket with color illustrations and purple lettering, 192 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. VG/VG (pages 87-100 have a crease/bend in bottom corner. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Light overall shelfwear to dust jacket.). Item #179606
ISBN: 9780887401046
"Unquestionably, this is the most comprehensive study ever written on the subject of Connecticut working decoys. The author has documented and shown exampls of decoys from eighty-odd carvers throughout the state. Henry C. Chitwood begins his book with a table of carvers listen them by name, date, location, carving period, number of deocys made, and a description of the types of decoys they carved. This is followed by a detailed text covering the various geographic areas in Connecticut and the decoys produced there, along with biographical notes on the gunners as well as the carvers. Finally Mr. Chitwood conclues his book with the discussions on factory decoys, shore birds and descriptive decoy features. The hunting as well as decoy enthusiast could not ask for a more informative sourche on Connecticut working decoys." -dust jacket.
OCLC: 17675210
Price: $30.00