Cigar Daisey - Artist Info

About Cigar Daisey

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Delbert "Cigar" Daisey
  • Biography

    Delbert Cigar Daisey was born in 1918 in Chincoteague, Virginia. He was given the nickname "Cigar" by a game warden after he lost some cigars while stealing ducks from the warden's trap. Cigar was a renowned decoy carver and his life and work have been memorialized in a book by Doily Fulcher. He passed away in 2017 and his red breasted merganser decoys are considered to be some of his best work.

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