Louisiana
This call is another of the earliest styles the Faulk company made. It was the beginning of the production model calls utilizing a piece of cane to enclose the reed assembly. The reed was held in place with a cedar wedge. The call uses a hard rubber reed which was supposedly made out of an old Ace pocket comb. This hard rubber material was utilized from the early stages of call construction in the Louisiana style of call making. During World War II,
hard rubber became very difficult to purchase, and some Louisiana call makers went back to utilizing metal reeds. After the war you can find these makers experimenting with early forms of plastic for the reed material. This call is an early example of Clarence and Dudley Faulk’s work. This call was stamped with the name of Clarence Faulk. It is not known what year Faulk began stamping the calls.
(Below) This is the same “International” duck call as the one to the left, this one still has its sticker.
(Above) One of Faulk’s high production “International” style duck calls. There just isn’t a sticker on it. A hunter probably got bored in the blind and picked it off!
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