[fabsroman]

Have de Grace or if you are Italian, Hava de Grace.

I am looking to spend about $200 a piece for these decoys since I will be able to write some, if not all, of them off for my business. I will have to look into the rules regarding the write off of art for an office, because I think there are some special quirks to it. However, as most of you know I love waterfowl, especially hunting them.

I have several waterfowl prints from Terry Redlin, two glass ducks from Murano, Italy (i.e., Venice) with the feather detail created with smoke blown into the glass, I have three miniature decoys, and I have a wood duck decoy that my fiance bought me Christmas of 2003.

Regarding the new decoys I want to get, I want to get some with nice feather detail. A lot of the Maryland stuff I have seen just doesn't have the feather detail that I am looking for. Then there is the $200 a piece limitation. My fiance would kill me if I spent $400 a piece on decoys. Then again, I would probably kill myself.

TD,

I have plenty of Carry-Lite mallards, geese, and wood ducks to put on the shell and I also have some Greenhead mallard decoys with the removable keel so they will lay flat. However, I don't think my clients will be impressed by that stuff. Then again, a lot of my clients aren't hunters or waterfowlers either.