Decoy Heritage

Decoy Heritage Jim & Deb - Decoy collector —- decoy specialist for Copley , Fine Art Auctions jim@Copleyart.com

Topic: Early Flourishing Industries on the Tuckerton Creek
07/03/2025

Topic: Early Flourishing Industries on the Tuckerton Creek

05/01/2025

Special thanks to everyone who joined us at The North American Decoy Association show in Chicago last week. Copley's special preview hosted 150 collectors for cocktails and a sneak peek of Ducks Unlimited’s major Canada goose exhibit featuring objects from The Peterson Collection.

04/18/2025

Copley will once again be selling the finest decoys in 2025.
Click on the link below to see some of the items in the upcoming Sporting Sale.

https://mailchi.mp/copleyart/ss25-1

The early days of Decoy collecting !!! conversation with Joe French at the Richard Born auction !!! at the Craigville In...
04/16/2025

The early days of Decoy collecting !!! conversation with Joe French at the Richard Born auction !!! at the Craigville Inn  early 80s 

03/31/2025

Just in time for our friends coming in for the New Jersey Decoy Collectors Annual Show at Stockton University tomorrow, this new exhibit, John Updike: Bringing the Barnegat Bay Style up the Mullica River will be opening tomorrow! Stop by to see this incredible collection as we put the finishing touches on. Special thank you to Mark Ford for curatorial support and posthumously to Dick Gove for his research.

03/30/2025

THE SPRING ONLINE SALE: MARCH 26–APRIL 9, 2025
The bidding has begun! Click on the link below to view lots and place your bids!
https://mailchi.mp/copleyart/sos25

03/30/2025

OBJECT OF THE WEEK
— Augustus Aaron "Gus" Wilson (1864-1950) —
McCleery White-Winged Scoter

Featured in the first plate of "Call to the Sky," this decoy was held back from the 2000 McCleery auction by the estate. Copley has been selected by the McCleery family to sell this and other McCleery Collection decoys in the Sporting Sale 2025 in July.

03/30/2025

Broadbill Shooting with the Doc Roger Cramer formally with the Boston Red Sox from Manahawkin, New Jersey at Sedge Island gun club Barnegat Bay in the 1930s shooting over what I think are Taylor Johnson Decoys and with Barnegat Bay sneakbox’s

Copley Fine Art Auction
03/30/2025

Copley Fine Art Auction

Stockton University, lecture on the makers of Decoys- from the Barnegat Bay region !!!  Sponsored by Copley Fine Art Auctions 

Stockton University, lecture on the makers of Decoys- from the Barnegat Bay region !!!  Sponsored by Copley Fine Art Au...
03/30/2025

Stockton University, lecture on the makers of Decoys- from the Barnegat Bay region !!!  Sponsored by Copley Fine Art Auctions 

03/22/2025

Many thanks to Rick Russack and "Antiques and The Arts Weekly" for their coverage of Copley's record-setting Winter Sale 2025 in today's issue. Click on the link below to read the whole article.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e7a9bab370c202efc397c1e/t/67dd9f41ea04ac4927ebe5d8/1742577474567/2025_3_21_AntiquesandArtsWeekly.pdf

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Jim and Deb Allen 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.

Jim is an electrical engineer by trade, working for Atlantic Electric as a manager.

Deb is a registered nurse, who currently works with RED-NUCLEUS as a medical writer/director.

Decoy Heritage is a Tuckerton New Jersey based decoy business, the same town that bore Harry V. Shourds, one of the well-known early New Jersey carvers. 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.