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- Feb. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Collectibles
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 55
- Business Notes
- COLLECTIBLES
- These Fish Are Keepers
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- <body>
- <p> The beauty of handmade duck decoys has long been appreciated
- by many, if not by ducks. Now collectors are discovering another
- variety of folk art: fish decoys. They have traditionally been
- used by ice fishers to lure prey within spearing range. Last
- month a 9-in. hand-carved trout with glass eyes and metal fins
- snared $18,700 at Sotheby's in New York City.
- </p>
- <p> The first major exhibit of fish decoys opened last week at
- the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan. The decoys range
- from unadorned wooden designs to the elaborately painted "ghost
- fish" of Michigan carver Hans Janner Sr. "The most highly valued
- fish decoys are charming, but they are also fabulous at doing
- their jobs as tools," says Ben Apfelbaum, curator of the
- exhibition. Not all decoys are expensive. Contemporary Native
- American wooden fish can be bought for $50 to $250.
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- </body>
- </article>
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