Soooo, Delbert"Cigar" Daisy and Frank "Goldie" Coombs ( I picked him because he championed high-head decoys as stool that would work in pulling-in birds, countering the common contention that decoys had to be depicted as content resting birds.) are now artisans....how interesting!!! I am quite sure they would be impressed by this "elevated" status.
Isn't it interesting, in our current era, that self-sufficiency and self-reliance has come to be "quantified" and celebrated this way.