But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej ...

"I'm not trying to make perfectly polished replicas of fish models," he said, "but rather 'folk art' that follows the tradition of hand-carved wooden decoys produced for spear fishing decades ago." ...