Flying Mallard Drake, Phillippe Sirois (1893-1980), Arrowsic, Maine

with early, normal wear; chips on wing detail.

See Decoy Magazine, May/June 2000, p.12
North American Decoys, Fall 1979

Sirois lived in Bath, Maine and died in 1980. He painted, carved fish plaques, and did some additional decorative carvings but this is the only duck decoy known by him. It is clear that he was influenced by Gus Wilson in the style and form of this flyer.