Flurry - #0012

DuckDex Entry #0012: Flurry

DuckDex Number: #0012

Museum Name: Flurry

Original Product Name: Not yet documented

Brand: Bath & Body Works

Object Type: Rubber duck

Colors: White with multicolored snowflakes and orange beak

Date: Undetermined

Acquisition: Purchased by Nichole

Museum Collection: Bath & Body Works Collection 

❄️ Captain Quackers' Curator Notes

"Flurry may look ready for the holidays, but her snowflakes actually give us something more valuable than a festive story—they give us evidence. Her white body is covered with colorful snowflake motifs, strongly suggesting a winter or holiday-inspired design. We still don't know exactly when Bath & Body Works sold her, what the company called her, or whether she belonged to a formally identified holiday collection. Until contemporary evidence answers those questions, Flurry preserves an important clue to how seasonal imagery appeared among Bath & Body Works' remarkably varied rubber ducks." 

🧳 Adventure Log

📍 Current Home: The American Rubber Duck Museum Collection

🛍️ Collection: Bath & Body Works

❄️ Known For: Multicolored snowflake pattern

🎁 Special Talent: Bringing a little snow to the flock without making the museum shovel

🦆 Mission: Help investigate the use of winter and seasonal imagery among Bath & Body Works rubber ducks

📅 Adventure Status: Preserved for future museum display

🏛️ Museum Label

Flurry
Bath & Body Works Collection
DuckDex Entry #0012

This white duck, decorated with multicolored snowflakes, is a surviving example of Bath & Body Works rubber duck merchandise. Molded Bath & Body Works markings establish its brand attribution, while its original product name, release date, manufacturer, and retail context remain under investigation.

Flurry's snowflake decoration provides strong visual evidence of a winter or holiday-inspired theme. However, whether Bath & Body Works officially marketed this duck as a holiday release, tied it to a particular promotion, or included it in a named seasonal collection remains unclear.

💝 Provenance

Brand/Marking: Bath & Body Works

Manufacturer: Not yet identified

Country of Manufacture: China (object marked “Made in China”) 

Molded Code/Marking: 09/10

Acquisition Source: Purchased by Nichole

Acquisition Date: [if known]

Story Connection: Nichole added Flurry to the museum as part of her effort to document the variety of surviving Bath & Body Works rubber ducks. Its multicolored snowflake decoration distinguishes it from the solid-color, pearlescent, and polka-dot examples already in the collection and provides useful evidence for investigating how Bath & Body Works incorporated seasonal imagery into duck designs.

🌨️ Conservation Notes

Flurry retains a white surface decorated with multicolored snowflake motifs and an orange beak. The decorative snowflake elements and molded underside markings remain. Condition documented at the time of cataloging. 

🔎 Research Notes

🟩 Confirmed: Bath & Body Works attribution is established by molded markings on the surviving object.

🟩 Confirmed: The surviving object has a white body decorated with multicolored snowflake motifs.

🟩 Confirmed: The snowflake imagery establishes a winter-themed decorative treatment.

🟩 Confirmed: A molded code/marking resembling “09/10” is present on the object, subject to exact transcription from the artifact.

🟨 Strongly suggested by object evidence: The snowflake motif is consistent with a holiday or winter-season design.

🟨 Not yet established: Whether Bath & Body Works officially designated Flurry as a holiday release or included it in a named holiday/seasonal collection.

🟨 Not yet established: Meaning of the molded “09/10” code.

🟨 Not yet established: Original product name, release date, manufacturer/vendor, original retail price, or specific promotional context.

❄️ Why Captain Quackers Loves This Duck

Every duck has a story...

"Some ducks remind us of a place. Flurry makes me think of a season. Her colorful snowflakes immediately bring winter to mind—but they also remind me why museum research means looking beyond the obvious. We can see the snowflakes. We can document them. But figuring out exactly when and why Bath & Body Works put them on this duck is another question entirely. Sometimes a snowflake isn't just decoration. Sometimes it's a clue." 

❄️Captain Quackers

Chief Curator & Adventure Officer

🦆 Every Duck Has a Story...

"...and Flurry reminds us that sometimes the smallest snowflake can become a clue to a much bigger story."