Well, Well, Well, Looky What Popped Up On Ebay! A Real Chris Smith Decoy!
Is it Duck Decoy season on ebay? Is the seller a Woody Boater and saw that we were talking about decoys? Well, today this just popped up on ebay. $1,200 so it must be real? Its even got a CC SMITH metal plate at the bottom with carved in names.
Very cool!
Stunning!
That brand is priceless
And just feels right. This if the real thing even with the price would be a very cool addition to your flock of stuff.
YOU CAN SEE THE ENTIRE EBAY LISTING HERE!
I am holding out for a Gar Wood garbage truck. I expect one to show up in eBay autos any day now.
Christopher Columbus Smith (1858-1937) Algonac, HI
Chris Smith was known for his boat building long before he was recognized as a carver of decoys. Chris and his older brother Henry were both market hunters as young men and made their own decoys and boats out of necessity. The popular Chris¬Craft and Miss America boats that triumphed in the Gold Cup Races held on the Detroit River are products of the company that bear Chris Smith’s name (Kangas, Survey 178).
For their lures, Chris and Henry got wood from ships passing Algonac; the ships’ captains would piCk out usable logs and throw them overboard for the brothers. As hunters, the Smiths understood the need for light decoys that could be packed in large quantities in a tiny boat. They carved small decoys with hollow bodies. The decoys have long slender necks and chests that are narrow in comparison to the rest of the bodily proportions. The decoys display a variety of positions that portray both content and alert attitudes. Neither brother adorned his decoys with surface carving on the body or detailed carving on the bills with the exception of canvasbacks. Between the two of them, the brothers produced as many as a thousand decoys. Some of these decoys have a lead keel with “C.C. Smith” stamped on them to clearly identify decoys by Chris. For the great amount of decoys the men produced, they limited themselves to black ducks, scaup, canvasbacks, pintails, redheads and whistlers, the primary species hunted in the area.
duck season!
wabbit season!
duck season!
wabbit season!
What a bunch of weenies…CC Smith decoys show up on eBay often…wtf is so funny dickweeds ?
If that is really a Chris Smith decoy and it could talk, the stories it could tell us.
Love the header . That one is going up on the wall in my office!
Thanks Greg, doing headers can sometimes be my favorite time of day!
I echo that.
Garbage truck? I want a Garwood bus to pull the Chris Craft camper.
I have a couple along with most of my family. This is a nice one but it has been painted and over detailed. Most of them came with grey bilge paint on the bottom and would have not looked so nice because they where used for hunting. The eyes are not original and have been replaced. It looks like it is hollow and the bottom is nailed so that’s correct on. This is a bit over priced as well, $600 at the most
The one pictured is pretty nice and is worth about $1000
It feels overpriced, but as art, stunning! But that’s ebay, and its history. Thanks Mike for your insight.
Love the picture under the header! Looks like a mid ’30s 21′ Utility. Very cool boat. Grampa is happy!!
Yea, gramps has a woody
Yes, we love those simple utilities. B engine and no fancy pants stuff.
So, along with searching old abandoned barns for woodies we now need to go looking through marshes for antique C-C decoys that may have floated away decades ago?
How is that duck powered?
Also, be careful. I’ve heard they can have a problem with blow by.
So, my woody is not a CC… it is plywood…. and has a stern drive…. and it has no “build card”… and is not 100% original… and it was built in the ’70’s… and it is Canadian… and now I have to deal with the fact that my antique decoy (which has a great history of its own) is not a Chris Smith CC decoy!
I think I’m getting an inferiority complex!