 Welcome to The Canvasback Gallery website! The gallery is enjoying its new home on the water in Cambridge, Maryland on the Eastern Shore of the famous Chesapeake Bay! The gallery is a unique tribute to the waterfowling days of past. Some truly amazing history surrounds the gallery. The gallery is home to a world-class waterfowling artifacts display. The many wonderful displays are a vivid reminder of the great old duck shooting days! See historic Chesapeake Bay Canvasback gunning decoys that once floated around sinkboxes on the famed Susquehanna Flats. Admire the beautiful old double barrel shotguns by Clark and Sneider, Alexander McComas, John Krider, Patrick and John Mullin, David Kirkwood, W. & C. Scott and also large punt guns and other market hunting duck guns. See a colorful collection of early shotshell boxes by the Winchester and Peters Companies and early gunpowder cans by Hazard Powder, Dupont Powder, Laflin & Rand Powder, Oriental Powder and American Powder. The Canvasback Gallery is one of the best sources for old wooden antique decoy ducks and other fine waterfowling collectibles such as shotshell boxes, gunpowder cans, antique shotguns, original flat art, advertising memorabilia and more! Visitors and collectors of all levels will be able to see and purchase examples of fine American Folk Art by some of the most well known decoy makers from the Chesapeake Bay and other areas for example; Madison Mitchell,  James Holly, Ward Brothers, Ira Hudson, Will Heverin, Sam Barnes, John Graham, John "Daddy" Holly, Ben Dye, Joseph Coudon, Miles Hancock, Lloyd Tyler, Charlie Joiner, Bob McGaw, Joe Dye, Elmer Crowell, Duncan Ducharme, Doug Jester, Charles Barnard, Paul Gibson, Jim Currier and more. In addition, a nice selection of educational materials are available in the comfortable reading and gun room. The Canvasback Decoy Gallery is without question an Eastern Shore destination you will want to check out! If you want to visit the gallery - please make sure to contact me in advance - as visiting is by appointment only. If you have old decoys or shotguns for sale or need them professionally appraised - single pieces or entire collections - please give me a call and let me work with you on figuring out what you have!
Jeff, Jessie and Jet Pelayo
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A look inside The Original Canvasback Gallery!
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