Steve Sutton
Well-known member
here it is.....
The quality of this first scan isn't great. It's scanned from a photo copy that was sent to me by the guy in Missouri that now has the box in his possession......its the only photos that I have that show the relief carving on the lid of the box. If you look close you can see the dowels used to pin the box together. The corners and other hardware are brass and the handle is leather.
The lid of the box has one of those "cunning" little pegs to hold the interior lid shut.....
The second picture is the only original photo that I have of the box. It shows the box closed better than any of the photos above and also has one of Dave "English Caller" hen Mallard decoys sitting on the lid......
I saw the box many years ago in Dave's shop. Dave was still hunting at the time, (at least occassionally), and I didn't think about asking him if it might be available. Wish I had because a couple of years later when I asked him what had happened to it he told me it was now in the hands of a man in Missouri. I know the guy sells a good bit of Dave's artwork and books, and to my knowledge still has the box...
It was made the size and shape that it is, 6" x 11 x 14", give or take a half inch here or there, so that it could be used as a seat in the Barnegat that Dave had. As I recall he told me he kept his oarlocks in the compartment to the right of the shell block and his calls and gloves and that sort of thing in the lid, but since there are calls in the compartment in front of the shell block I might have that wrong and it might have been used for his thermos, (its been awhile and I've slept since that day).....
It was over 15 years old when I first saw it, (makes it 25 by now), and was made out of 3/4" Redwood....the carving was done by Dave and is of "brant" if that isn't obvious due to the quality of the picture.....
If anyone can tell me what setting I need to set my scanner on so that when I scan a photo from glass that it comes out full size maybe I can get better scans of stuff in the future....
Steve
The quality of this first scan isn't great. It's scanned from a photo copy that was sent to me by the guy in Missouri that now has the box in his possession......its the only photos that I have that show the relief carving on the lid of the box. If you look close you can see the dowels used to pin the box together. The corners and other hardware are brass and the handle is leather.
The lid of the box has one of those "cunning" little pegs to hold the interior lid shut.....
The second picture is the only original photo that I have of the box. It shows the box closed better than any of the photos above and also has one of Dave "English Caller" hen Mallard decoys sitting on the lid......
I saw the box many years ago in Dave's shop. Dave was still hunting at the time, (at least occassionally), and I didn't think about asking him if it might be available. Wish I had because a couple of years later when I asked him what had happened to it he told me it was now in the hands of a man in Missouri. I know the guy sells a good bit of Dave's artwork and books, and to my knowledge still has the box...
It was made the size and shape that it is, 6" x 11 x 14", give or take a half inch here or there, so that it could be used as a seat in the Barnegat that Dave had. As I recall he told me he kept his oarlocks in the compartment to the right of the shell block and his calls and gloves and that sort of thing in the lid, but since there are calls in the compartment in front of the shell block I might have that wrong and it might have been used for his thermos, (its been awhile and I've slept since that day).....
It was over 15 years old when I first saw it, (makes it 25 by now), and was made out of 3/4" Redwood....the carving was done by Dave and is of "brant" if that isn't obvious due to the quality of the picture.....
If anyone can tell me what setting I need to set my scanner on so that when I scan a photo from glass that it comes out full size maybe I can get better scans of stuff in the future....
Steve
