If you're looking for decoys, make the Buy, Sell, Swap at Easton High School your first stop at the 2014 Waterfowl Festival!  

 Join dedicated collectors, first time buyers, and browsers and enjoy a staggering array of decoys, hunting and sporting memorabilia, sporting books and much more. Prices range from pocket change to the thousands of dollars.  

 Stop by to learn more about this historical hobby that can easily turn into an obsession! 

 NEW IN 2014, the Buy, Sell, Swap exhibit will also feature folk art in a variety of forms presented by respected collectors and antique dealers.

 For a current list of 2014 Buy, Sell, Swap exhibitors, click here.

Decoy Heritage - Tuckerton, NJ

Decoy Heritage is a Tuckerton New Jersey based decoy business, owned by Jim and Deb Allen. Jim and Deb have been involved in decoy collecting since the early 1970's. Mentored by well-known collectors/dealers John Hillman, Bud Ward and others and working with well-known collectors as they amassed their collections has led Jim to become known as an expert for many regions with a main focus on the New Jersey and Delaware River decoy. Though his initial passion has been buying and selling New Jersey decoys, Jim has had over 40 years of experience in brokering decoys from many different regions. To learn more about Decoy Heritage, click here to visit their website.

Newsome & Berdan Antiques
Thomasville, PA & Hallowell, ME
Newsome & Berdan Antiques is one of our new Folk Art exhibitors at the 2014 Festival. With locations in Pennsylvania and Maine, Newsome & Berdan are a welcome addition to the Buy, Sell, Swap exhibit. Their business focuses on antique furniture, textiles, paintings, accessories and folk art. Their display at the Festival will focus primarily on folk art from the MidAtlantic region. We're looking forward to welcoming them to the Festival for the first time!

 

While you are in at Easton High School, make sure you stop into the Walsh Waterfowling Artifacts Exhibit!

Part of the mission of the Waterfowl Festival is to preserve and promote the heritage that has made Maryland's Eastern Shore unique. The annual displays of Waterfowling Artifacts are must-see exhibits for visitors. In Artifacts, one can trace the evolution of waterfowling from an economic necessity to the sport of today. Some of these seldom seen treasurers loaned from private and museum collections date back hundreds of years, and include decoys, guns, gunning boats, and countless related items, some of priceless rarity.

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Partner Exhibition:

Carvers at the Crossroads: Sharing Ideas, Techniques and Styles Across the Chesapeake's Susquehanna Flats 

In this exhibit the stories and connections between these early 20th century carvers will be told through artifacts, photographs, and above all, the decoys they created. Leonard Pryor, a Chesapeake City carver whose elegant birds communicated influences both deeply local and surprisingly distant, "Carvers at the Crossroads" will connect visitors with a period in Chesapeake history when the carving techniques and skills of the Susquehanna Flats were as abundant and nomadic as the canvasbacks, pintails, and blackheads they artfully rendered.
 

Elliot Brothers Exhibit

Twin brothers born in 1904, Chank and Bill Elliot of Easton were perhaps the last of the commercial makers of wood and cork decoys in Talbot County. Their legacy consists of some very good swan, goose and black duck decoys that were made to stand the test of time.