Welcome to Wooden-Decoy.com

At Wooden-decoy, we offer a range of quality waterfowl decoys, spear-fishing decoys, and hunting collectibles for sale. 

Our area of emphasis is the Great Lakes area (especially Wisconsin, Michigan, and the St. Clair Flats), but we sell decoys from all areas of North America including Quebec and British Columbia.  We sell species of carved waterfowl decoys. The variety that we market on this website is wide: we feature vintage hand-carved decoys along with the famous antique birds made in factories; contemporary and vintage decorative decoys; and vintage and contemporary gunning decoys. Many of the decoys that you see listed are “Under the Radar” creations made by unknown carvers and that have the grace, beauty and charm suitable for any decoy collection.  Some of them even seem like old relicts but with a charm that grows on you. The waterfowl species usually include black ducks, bluebills, buffleheads, canvasbacks, golden-eye, mallards, pintails, redheads, and teals. The spear-fishing decoys include species of perch, northern pike, shiners, suckers and others.  We have some hunting collectibles such as knives and prints among our listings, along with books for sale. We welcome your business either as a buyer or as a consigner. We appraise and identify decoys free-of-charge. If you are trying to locate a decoy by a particular carver, we can try to find it. Finally, if you have an entire collection to have appraised, we can help.   Join Our Email Mailing List Email:   For Email Marketing you can trust

Featured Listings            Hollow pair of mallard decoys by Wisconsin dentist Walter Lowery, ca. 1920. These rare decoys are is excellent original condition. Lowery carved very few decoys and they are impossible to find in this condition--that is, until now!   $17500 or make an offer. woodendecoy@aol.com View our Featured Listings Wooden Decoy on Facebook

The asking price for each item is listed directly below the carver's name to the left of the picture. Sometimes the price is negotiable, and sometimes it is not. If you are interested in a particular item, click on the "Make us an offer" button and send an e-mail that includes your best offer. The seller will get back to you as quickly as possible with an answer.

Once your offer is accepted, payments can be in the form of cash, money order, cashier's check, personal check, credit card, or Paypal -- the choice is up to you. Buyers who use Paypal will be charged an extra 5% of the final sales price. Those who prefer to use a credit card will be charged an extra 4.5% of the final sales price.  When the sale is final, you will be sent an invoice including shipping charges. If you prefer to use Paypal or a credit card, please call Jackie at (707)762-8689 or (707)217-2758 so you either can receive a Paypal invoice, or so you can furnish credit card information for your payment. Satisfaction is guaranteed: returns are accepted within 7 days, less shipping/handling fees.

Very sad news
Len Suzor was a very special person, and it is really hard to realize that he is gone. For visitors on www.wooden-decoy.com who have been with us from the beginning, you know that Jackie Robertson (me), Len, Patrick Kane and John Freimuth got our collective noggins together at a decoy show and decided we needed our own site for selling our good decoys outside of Ebay. Ron Koch came in just about then and Jim Young and John Herman joined us a bit later on. I had the site designed (and have been chained to my computer ever since) and off we went.

Len and I go back to when I first started collecting decoys. I was ready to give up on Canadian birds because of a dishonest dealer on Ebay -- Len got me re-started with fine Canadian birds, and suggested that I demand my money back. I did exactly that and between the two of us, we scared that crook off of Ebay for a good 3 years. That was the thing about Len: he was an honest unpretentious person, and an honest carver. There is really nothing fancy about Len's decoys -- they are gunning birds meant for hunting, not for the shelf. But they are nice, very nice and I'm glad to have them because they will always remind me of Len. He was proud to be a 3rd-generation carver, following in the tradition of his grandfather Helery and his father Mose. And he was so proud of his boys, Len Jr. and Mike (the 4th generation carvers) and their kids (one or more of whom will no doubt be the 5th generation carvers). Most of all, though, Len was my first "best friend" in decoy collecting, and we shared the hard times that both of our families were going through because of prolonged illnesses of our loved ones.

From right to left, this classic "Four Most Wanted" poster from the last St. Charles show features Charlie Brisky, Ron Koch, me, and Len. And the next picture is the very last one that Len sent me this past July. Len was looking to buy a fishing boat, and you can see why. I'm sure he would rather have me put in pictures of some of his decoys in something like this, so here are a couple of those too.

Our "Four Most Wanted" Poster, April 2009	Len Suzor, July 2009
Hollow-carved green-winged teal,  Len Suzor Sr., 2006	Solid redhead, Len Suzor Sr., 2000

So thank you my friend Len -- I am so glad to have known you, and I sure will miss you!
---Jackie