Give a gift of a decoy, a realistic wooden duck.
Wooden ducks, or decoys, may be known as being kitschy telephones, funny bookends or cabin and lodge accessories, but collectors have been enjoying them for centuries. The first ducks were estimated to have been made in 200 A.D., according to eHunting Blinds, after 11 were found in a cave in 1924. Since then, decoys have been a part of hunting, fishing and collectors' lives ever since. If a decoy lover is on your shopping list, you'll find a variety of ways to ruffle his feathers.
Decoys
The actual wooden ducks that collectors love are called decoys, because they are hand-crafted to look so much like their real-life models. Start a duck lover's collection or build it up with more birds including bluebills, black ducks, canvasbacks, golden-eye, redheads, mallards, teals, northern pile, shiners and bobtails, from vendors such as Wooden Decoy and NC Fish and Game. Ducks come in a variety of sizes and shapes, such as Magnum Black Duck, with dimensions of 16 inches by 7 inches and weighing just under 2 pounds. If you've got a number of duck lovers to buy for, consider purchasing in bulk from a vendor such as the Duck Decoy Shop, which sells six-packs of feathered friends such as the Bufflehead, also known as the "butterball," with a pair of sleeping ducks, a pair of resting ducks and a pair of standard ducks.
Sportswear
Make any wooden duck collector a personalized wearable to show off his love of the quackers. A variety of online personalization websites allow images to be uploaded, text and designs to be added and the entire graphic on a T-shirt, polo, tote bag, sweatshirt, shorts and even gym towels to be imported. Once an image of a wooden duck is found (photos and drawings are available on free download and clip-art websites), click through such sites as VistaPrint, Zazzle or Cafe Press, which lets shoppers select everything from the style of a shirt (baseball jersey, T-shirt, tank top) to the color, size and placement of any wooden duck image. Other options include adding text, such as "I'm quackers for Quackers!" and the gift recipient's name.
Pin
Even if your wooden duck fanatic can't bring her favorite accessories with her on a trip or to a meeting, she can keep her feathered friend close at heart with a duck pin. A variety of vendors offer wooden duck pins in an endless variety of styles, such as a sitting duck, ducks flying away or a small group of ducks sitting together. Both male and female duck lovers appreciate pins; men can wear them as tie tacks (cuff links are also an option), women may pin them on a jacket lapel, on a purse strap or front and center on a sweater. Pins come in traditional wood styles, but also in sterling silver, antiqued finish, gold and gemstones, along with photo-style buttons and badges.
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