Carving for Sport and Profit

While guns and dogs played a critical role in Rock Hall's preoccupation with hunting waterfowl, nothing was quite so important as a good string of working decoys. Hand-carved at first, working decoys eventually evolved into plastic mass-produced lures in more recent years, adding significant worth to the surviving early crafted models. Rock Hall still has some decorative carvers. But serious collectors know well the names of the Rock Hall masters: John B. Glenn, August Heinefield, Captain Jesse Urie, Clifton Simns and Roger Urie. The Rock Hall Museum features a re-created carving shop, featuring original tools, furnishings, patterns and partially carved decoys donated by the Urie family. The Museum also maintains off-site a hand-built duplicating lathe from the shop of Roger Urie. Special loaned exhibits too are a periodic feature, announced in advance on this website's Homepage Bulletin Board.


Color is Critical


Roger's Paint Table

From this paint table recovered from Roger Urie's Rock Hall carving shop emerged countless decoys for gunning or display.

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