wood duck half stamped

[sugarcube5419]

anybody know the company name?

[sugarcube5419]

bottoms up

[ghopper1924]

I hate to be pedantic, but that's a mallard drake, not a wood duck. Don't know the company stamp....

[sugarcube5419]

sorry ghopper

[Pelady]

Sugar Cube,

I believe it is
French Broad River Decoy
Town might be: Saluda, North Carolina
They seem to be offered on eBay from $30 up.

PeLady

[KC]

$6.99?  Deal!

Yep the FRENCH Broad River Decoy Company!  Beat me to it Pelady!  Located in Edneyville!  Family owned.  Seen a duck decoy or two and these are not for throwing in the water and blowing your quackers!

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19860511&id=6RsaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6278,2546097&hl=en

[KC]

Okay, I DIDN'T put emoji's in the post above but they are showing up!

[sugarcube5419]

THANKYOU

[mart]

I hate to be pedantic, but that's a mallard drake, not a wood duck. Don't know the company stamp....

I think she meant made of wood !!  Wooden duck !!

[ghopper1924]

Of course, saying woodEN would have put a entirely different spin on it.

[mart]

I looked twice too !!

[cogar]

I hate to be pedantic, but that's a mallard drake, not a wood duck. Don't know the company stamp....

I chuckled at the intended "pun" in the above. 

But I had to look up the definition of "pedantic", which its synonyms are: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky.

So, MLO is that it is in fact a "wood duck" ...... but that wood duck is not a "Wood Duck".   

Most older decoys are wood ducks, newer ones are plastic ducks.

And you can buy plastic Wood Duck decoys.

[ghopper1924]

OK, now I'm going to have to get pedantic: What we've got here is a case of capitalitis (a pathogen otherwise known as Uppercasis ludicrosii).

A duck decoy made of wood is a wooden duck. The beautiful species of duck that everyone loves is a wood duck. A wood duck can be either a wooden duck or a plastic duck, but it's always lower case.  In the anglicized form of latin binomial nomenclature, the species is not capitalized unless it contains a proper name.

To wit: Stellar's jay. While the Stellar's in Stellar's jay is capitalized because it's named after Mr. Stellar, the blue in blue jay is not. OK kids, this will be on the quiz at the end of the semester.

The important thing is that we know who made the duck, thanks to PeLady.

[mart]

LOL !!  I didn`t know the word or its proper use either but figured the way the sentence read it just meant "picky" !!  You see we in Texas have a tendency to simplify things !!

[cogar]

a case of capitalitis (a pathogen otherwise known as Uppercasis ludicrosii).

ghopper, that was a goodern, .... I liked it.

But anyway, you are technically correct with your "capitalitis" claim.

And being technically correct means that one’s written verbiage should adhere to your stated vocabulary Rule that …… “In the anglicized form of latin(sic) binomial nomenclature, the species is not capitalized unless it contains a proper name.”

But, you can’t be writing “technical” verbiage if your commentary is to be read and understood by the general populace simply because many of said populace won‘t or can’t comprehend exactly what the animal or plant actually is that was stipulated in your commentary.

Thus, to prevent confusion and whenever appropriate it is best to use proper, common and/or capitalized names to define individual animals or plants or a pseudo-name for a particular species or sub-species. For example, more readers will know what you are talking about if you write “Killer Whale” verses “killer whale”, …. or “Orca” verses ”orca”, ….. and forget about writing  “Orcinus orca”. And the same goes for “Wood Duck” verses ”wood duck” as the following four (4) url links typifies.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wood_Duck/lifehistory - non-technical commentary
http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/wood-duck - non-technical commentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_duck - technical commentary
http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowl-id/wood-duck#ad-image-0 - technical commentary