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When the colonists first arrived in north america, they found that the natives were using mud, bulrushes, fowl carcasses, and other materials to create imitations of ducks. Wildfowler decoys babylon ny large vintage wooden duck. While vintage decoys are fetching high prices as antiques, they began life as hunters tools used to lure ducks from the sky to the dinner plate. The identity of wildfowler decoys by factory has always been difficult for several.
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