The Sporting Sale 2015 | Copley Fine Art Auctions

THE SPORTING SALE 2015 July 25 | Plymouth, Massachusetts

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JONATHAN BREWSTER NASH 1966-2015

The fishing and hunting community lost one of its great ambassadors earlier this year. My dear friend and Copley co-founder Jon Nash died unexpectedly on Friday, February 13th at the age of 49. The last bit of snow in my hometown melted on April 26th. This spring felt eternal in many ways.

The loss of a family member or close friend is numbing. At first you cannot believe it, then you question why. The density and weight of the loss can be crippling.

The memories that you are left with do not seem enough to fill the void. This was my state of mind for much of the spring. When I was asked by the Nash family to review Jon’s obituary it felt surreal.

I was extremely fortunate to count Jon as a fishing and hunting buddy for almost 40 years. He was a fixture in the community of Duxbury and its surrounding waters.

Jon Nash An avid outdoorsman and consummate sportsman, Jon was deeply committed to environmental sustainability and stewardship. He was a role model and a leader through his professional and personal networks. Our inner circle of friends was always amazed at Jon’s networking ability, for which I jokingly nicknamed him “Jonny Systems” one night while we stayed up late tying saltwater flies. Jon utilized his vast network of contacts for the broader good, namely for the preservation of our land and water ecosystems. He served in leadership capacities for Ducks Unlimited, Manomet, the Boston Flycasters, and as a founder of the Duxbury One Fly fishing tournament. Jon was a staunch advocate for the conservation of keystone species in Duxbury Bay, including herring, striped bass, and black ducks. Often seen tagging and banding these species on the Bay, Jon collaborated with leading scientific researchers and his enthusiasm and boundless energy made him larger than life in these endeavors.

The week before Jon passed away, he called to invite me and my son to help band black ducks with a state wildlife biologist. I was travelling at the time and could not make it. Not content with my response, Jon offered to swing by and take my son because he thought it might ignite a spark in a potential conservationist. My son was tied up with another activity so neither of us went...

Jon was always paying his wonder of the natural world forward. He was a true renaissance man and he gave his full commitment to every activity he participated in, whether fathering, hunting, fishing, skiing, gardening, cooking, entertaining his friends, or preserving community history. Jon was intense; he studied each field and soaked up information from the best teachers. He always gave you his best and, damn, if he didn’t expect the same from you! There was a method to his madness; he helped others shine by setting a great example.

On April 21st, while attending a Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Dinner in New York, I ran into a college buddy I had not seen in almost 25 years.

We did the usual catch up and talked about getting together to fish for striped bass in the spring. It was one of those encounters and conversations where talk can be cheap. A week later we hooked up on LinkedIn which bills itself as the “World’s Largest Professional Network.” We penciled in a fishing date, a few weeks out. “Jonny Systems” would have approved.

As the fishing day drew nearer there were a multiple of factors that could have derailed our bayside reunion. Kids’ plays, juggling business meetings, catalog deadlines, tenuous hallway passes from the wives, and inclement weather all threatened to scuttle our plans. Everything broke right. We shot out in my friend’s skiff. Within an hour I witnessed something I had never seen. I looked down into the clear water and saw a perfectly healthy striped bass upside down scratching her back on the sandy bottom. ”Probably trying to rub the sea lice off,” quipped my friend in stride. “Exactly,” I thought. A moment later another thirty-inch bass crossed the bow of the boat. A short cast and I was hooked up; a few minutes later the beautiful fish was in my hands. I thought about keeping it for a moment, but the thought quickly passed. After a minute of reviving the tired fish, off she shot.

The thought of Jon’s approving wide grin popped into my head.

Jon’s memory reminds me to seize life with both hands and leap at any opportunity to connect with the natural world. I hope that this summer you too can relish time spent outdoors.

I can’t wait to band black ducks next spring.

Steve Steve O’Brien

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THE SPORTING SALE Schedule of Events AUCTION to be held at The Radisson Hotel 180 Water Street | Plymouth, Massachusetts FRIDAY, JULY 24 New England Decoy Collectors 1pm Association Meeting Dealer Exhibition

3pm

McNair Exhibition & Sale

3pm

Live Carving Demonstration

4pm

Auction Preview

5:30pm - 7:30pm

SATURDAY, JULY 25 Auction Preview

8am - 10am

Dealer Exhibition

8am - 12pm

Auction

10am

CONTACTS THE DAY OF SALE On Site: 617.536.0030

Cinnie O’Brien: 617.501.7544

ABSENTEE AND TELEPHONE BIDS Please visit copleyart.com to leave absentee or telephone bids or use the bid forms found in the back of this catalog.

ONLINE BIDDING This auction features live online bidding through

Please review the Terms and Conditions of Sale on page 236 of this catalog.

For further information please contact us at 617.536.0030.

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Front Cover: Lot 28

CATALOG

Inside Front Cover: Lot 421

Stephen B. O’Brien Jr., President

Left Table of Contents: Lot 195

Cinnie O’Brien, Financial Controller

Page 7: Lot 84

Aimee Stashak-Moore, Auction Coordinator

Page 8: Lot 356 Inside Back Cover: Lot 26 Back Cover: Lot 371

Printed in the USA on recycled paper

Colin McNair, Decoy Specialist Jim Parker, Decoy Consultant Leah Tharpe, Fine Art Consultant Shawn Plouffe, Photographer Chelsie Olney, Editor

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© Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC 2015.

All rights reserved.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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President’s Welcome

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Schedule of Events

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Important Notices

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Decoys, Folk Art, and Fishing

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Paintings, Works on Paper, Bronzes, and Books

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Index of Artists and Makers

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Buyer Pre-Registration Form

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Absentee/Telephone Bid Form

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Terms and Conditions of Sale

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Authorized Shipping Release Form

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THE SPORTING SALE Important Notices 1 Please be advised that all persons wishing to bid at this auction should read, and be familiar with the Terms and Conditions of Sale in this catalog prior to bidding.

2 Buyer’s premium A buyer’s premium of 20% (23% for online bidding) of the final bid price up to and including $1,000,000, plus 15% of the final bid price over $1,000,000, will be applied to each lot sold, to be paid by the Buyer to Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC as part of the purchase price.

3 Consign to our next sale Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC is accepting consignments for our Winter Sale 2016. Please contact us by phone at 617.536.0030, or by email at consignments@copleyart.com.

4 Pre-registration Although you may register at the time of sale, we strongly encourage pre-registration to save you time at check-in.

Pre-Registration forms are available online, as well as in the back of this catalog.

5 Absentee and telephone bidding If you plan to place absentee bids or to bid by telephone, please make sure that we receive your Absentee/Telephone Bid form at least 24 hours before the start of the sale. It is possible that any bids received after this time may not be accepted. You will receive confirmation of your absentee bid(s) within 24 hours of receipt. If you do not receive confirmation, please call our office at 617.536.0030.

6 Sales tax All bidders holding a valid Massachusetts or out of state resale number must provide their certificate or a copy thereof while registering. Failure to do so will subject the bidder to a mandatory 6.25% Massachusetts sales tax on purchases.

7 Inspection of items offered at this auction All items are sold as is and should be inspected either personally or by agent before a bid is placed. Prospective buyers should satisfy themselves by personal inspection as to the condition of each lot. Although condition reports may be given on request, such reports are statements of opinion only.

Regardless of whether or not a condition report is given, all property is sold as is. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the property is in good condition. Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse condition requests.

8 Flat art dimensions Please be aware that all flat art dimensions are approximate and are rounded to the nearest quarter inch.

9 Additional images For lots with multiple items and only one shown, please visit copleyart.com for additional images.

10 Decoy stands Please be aware that decoy stands are not included with items purchased.

11 Condition description of wear or gunning wear Wear or gunning wear may include all types of wear and damage that can be inflicted, and is to be expected, to an object from handling or use in the field. This may include, but is not limited to, paint wear, flaking, dings, scratches, checks, cracks, craquelure, age lines, dents, chips, rubs, blunts, cracked eyes, shot scars, seam separations, popped grain, rust, filler loss, sap, and discoloration. Varnish may not be mentioned.

12 Condition description of as found The item is sold with any faults and imperfections that may exist. It is the responsibility of the buyer to determine condition.

13 Auction results Unofficial auction results will be available online approximately one week after the auction at copleyart.com.

14 Pick up and shipping Buyers wishing to pick up items at the sale must do so by 5 PM on the day of the sale. Buyers wishing to pick up items after the auction at our office may do so only by appointment starting five days after the sale. If you would like your items shipped, please complete and return the Authorized Shipping Release form found in the back of this catalog.

15 Auction day contact numbers

On site: 617.536.0030 Cinnie O’Brien: 617.501.7544

Auctioneer Peter J. Coccoluto MA License #2428

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THE SPORTING SALE July 25, 2015 PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS

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Properties from THE ESTATE OF GERTRUDE CARTER BULLOCK JAMES B. CERRETA COLLECTION NANCY DOLE COLLECTION BETSEY BURHANS FOWLER COLLECTION RYAN FRANKLIN COLLECTION RICHARD AND LYNN GOVE COLLECTION DESCENDENT OF CHARLES “BUDDY” HARRIS DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE COLLECTION DICK LAFOUNTAIN COLLECTION SHANE NEWELL COLLECTION JOHN T. ORDEMAN COLLECTION DESCENDENT OF ROGER TORY PETERSON WILLIAM H. PURNELL, JR. COLLECTION THOMAS W. SHEPPARD COLLECTION PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA PRIVATE COLLECTION, CONNECTICUT PRIVATE COLLECTION, FLORIDA PRIVATE COLLECTION, GEORGIA PRIVATE COLLECTION, ILLINOIS PRIVATE COLLECTION, INDIANA PRIVATE COLLECTION, MASSACHUSETTS PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION, NORTH CAROLINA PRIVATE COLLECTION, NORTH DAKOTA PRIVATE COLLECTION, OHIO PRIVATE COLLECTION, PENNSYLVANIA PRIVATE COLLECTION, VIRGINIA PRIVATE COLLECTION, WASHINGTON VARIOUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

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The Sporting Sale 2015 July 25, 10am

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1 Miniature Bluebill Drake

2 Miniature Green Heron

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920 1 1⁄8 by 2 1⁄8 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 4 1⁄4 by 5 1⁄4 in. long

An exceedingly rare diminutive decoy signed in ink by Crowell on the underside. This is one of the smallest Crowell carvings that has ever come to light. Original paint.

A rare species of miniature by the maker with his rectangular stamp on the bottom. Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

$1,000 - $1,500

$500 - $800

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3 Diminutive Miniature Mallard Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920 1 7⁄8 by 1 7⁄8 in. long

This mallard along with lot 4, the wood duck, are amongst the smallest miniatures that the maker is known to have executed. Signed in ink by the maker on the bottom. Original paint with a crack in the bill.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800

4 Diminutive Miniature Wood Duck Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920 1 7⁄8 by 2 1⁄4 in. long

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Signed in ink by the maker on the bottom.

Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

6 Miniature Wilson’s or Common Tern

$500 - $800

Retains a faint rectangular stamp impression and Crowell’s ink signature on the bottom. Original paint.

5 Miniature Long-Tailed Duck Drake

PROVENANCE:

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 1 7⁄8 by 3 1⁄8 in. long

A smaller carving of a duck than normally executed

by Crowell with a rectangular stamp on the bottom.

Original paint.

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 1⁄4 by 4 1⁄4 in. long

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800 12

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7 Miniature Green-Winged Teal Drake

9 Miniature Mallard Pair

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 1 7⁄8 by 3 1⁄8 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 1⁄8 by 3 7⁄8 in. long

A smaller carving of a duck than normally executed

by Crowell with a rectangular stamp on the bottom.

Original paint.

A smaller pair than normally executed by Crowell.

His rectangular stamp is on the bottom. Original paint with professional restoration to both bills. Both birds are reset to their bases with minimal touch-up.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $1,200 - $1,800

8 Miniature Bufflehead Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 5⁄8 by 2 7⁄8 in. long

10 Miniature Canvasback Hen A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 3 3⁄8 by 4 in. long

Retains a rectangular stamp and Crowell’s signature on the bottom. Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800

Retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp on the bottom.

Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $500 - $800

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11 Miniature Wood Thrush

13 Miniature Robin

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 1⁄4 by 2 7⁄8 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1940 3 1⁄2 by 4 1⁄2 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp on the bottom. Original paint with a beak chip.

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint, with a crack in beak.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $400 - $600

$400 - $600

14 Miniature Baltimore Oriole 12 Miniature Blue Jay A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 3 by 3 7⁄8 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s signature in ink and the rectangular stamp.

Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

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A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint with blunted beak tip.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $400 - $600

15 Miniature Black-Capped Chickadee A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 1⁄2 by 3 5⁄8 in. long

A rare size carving with Crowell’s rectangular stamp in the bottom.

Original paint with a minute beak tip chip.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $400 - $600

16 Miniature Goldfinch A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 1⁄4 by 2 3⁄4 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $400 - $600

$400 - $600

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17 Miniature Downy Woodpecker

19 Miniature Flicker

21 Miniature Red-Winged Black Bird

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 3⁄8 by 2 3⁄4 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1940 3 3⁄8 by 4 1⁄8 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 7⁄8 by 3 3⁄4 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint, very minor rub to beak tip.

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint.

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

PROVENANCE:

$400 - $600

$400 - $600

20 Miniature Cedar Waxwing

22 Miniature Towhee

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 5⁄8 by 3 1⁄8 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930 2 5⁄8 by 3 1⁄8 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s signature in ink and rectangular stamp. Original paint.

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

PROVENANCE:

$400 - $600

$400 - $600

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

$400 - $600

18 Miniature Scarlet Tanager A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1940 2 5⁄8 by 4 in. long

The bottom retains Crowell’s rectangular stamp. Original paint with chip to beak tip.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner $400 - $600

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Private Collection, purchased from the artist By descent in the family to current owner

JOSEPH W. LINCOLN 1859-1938 | ACCORD, MA

Joseph Lincoln Photograph courtesy of Cap Vinal

23 Miniature Swimming Canada Goose JOSEPH W. LINCOLN (1859-1938) ACCORD, MA, C. 1920 6 1⁄4 in. long

The following three Canada goose carvings represent some of the finest miniature carvings the maker is known to have produced. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 330, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

PROVENANCE:

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 329, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

25 Miniature Canada Goose JOSEPH W. LINCOLN (1859-1938) ACCORD, MA, C. 1920 4 3⁄4 in. long

Original paint with minimal wear and an age line in neck with very minimal touch-up.

PROVENANCE:

24 Miniature Sleeping Canada Goose JOSEPH W. LINCOLN (1859-1938) ACCORD, MA, C. 1920 4 7⁄8 in. long

Original paint with minimal wear.

Private Collection

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 331, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

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A. ELMER CROWELL 1862-1952 | EAST HARWICH, MA

26 Running Black-Bellied Plover A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1912

This early plover carving with its elegant form and strong provenance is one of Crowell’s finest decorative plover carvings known to exist. The paint detail is among the best known to have been executed on any plover by the maker.

the wingtips and extended tail. When Crowell initially began carving he was far more consumed with rendering a perfect likeness for each species. Typical of many artists, as his carvings gained in popularity and demand increased, his attention to detail began to wane. With this particular bird, Crowell went so far as to paint the auricular feathers below the eyes; this plover is believed to be one of the only such examples with this precise detail. A related curlew with similar auricular treatment was sold by our firm as the cover bird, lot 198, on the Sporting Sale Catalog, July 26, 2007.

In a bold running position, this carving measures a full eleven and one-half inches from the tip of the bill to the tail and shows the artisan’s finest original paint, with terrific intricate feather detail and blending. The layered impasto paint technique that he imparted upon his early carvings created a lifelike effect on the birds which is virtually unmatched by any carver of his day or since. The vermiculation on this plover where the black belly meets the white sides is reminiscent of Crowell’s famous preening pintail made for Crowell patron, author, and naturalist Dr. John C Phillips, Jr. (1876-1938). This plover along with the famous pintail both hail from the Russell B. Aitken Collection of Wildfowl Decoys.

While it remains a mystery as to whom Crowell created this masterwork for, Dr. John C. Phillips, Jr. (1876-1938), Dr. John H. Cunningham, Jr. (1877-1960), and Charles Ashley Hardy (1874-1929) are all likely candidates.

Displays Crowell’s pristine oval brand on the bottom of the surf clam base. According to Crowell historian Gigi Hopkins the auricular treatment is quite rare and the crisp brand is one of the earlier strikes she has ever seen. The oval brand was purchased by Crowell in 1912. Original paint with minimal restoration to thighs and feet.

PROVENANCE:

The Russell B. Aitken Collection Private Collection Christie’s, The Russell B. Aitken Collection of Waterfowl Decoys, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 4 and 61, lot 1126, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

The bill of the bird displays incised mandible separation as well as subtle nostril carving. With its black glass eyes, the bird likely predates 1915. Crowell used black glass eyes before switching to brass tacks eyes on his bigger birds, most of which are found on his 1915-1924 carvings. The carving displays nice separation between

Stephen O’Brien, Jr. Fine Arts, LLC., Select Carvings by A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952), Boston, MA, 2008, exact carving illustrated. $30,000 - $50,000

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27 Semipalmated Plover A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1930

A finely executed and highly detailed life-size shorebird mantle carving signed on the bottom with the maker’s rectangular stamp. Original paint, a minute paint rub at bill tip, and some minor wear on legs. Thigh putty appears original with some discoloration. $15,000 - $20,000

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28 Preening Black Duck A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1900 15 by 6 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 in.

feathers this decoy ranks among the finest. Outstanding original paint and condition, one wing tip has been reset twice.

An early, pre-brand, decoy that conveys the maker’s complete understanding of the species and command of his craft.

This full-bodied black duck exhibits excellent form, clean lines, and a head that fully extends back over the left side. The head reveals meticulously blended paint and refined carving details.

The crossed and raised wing tips are inserted into the body and are finished with carved primaries. Over three inches of the left wing tip is lifted in the air. The tail also features carved feather detail. The body displays wet-on-wet dry brush feathering and an exceptional surface.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

David S. Webster and William Kehoe, Decoys at Shelburne Museum, Burlington, VT, 1961, p. 23, No. D-43-W, similar decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings, New York, NY, 1965, p. 172, plate 148, similar decoy illustrated.

Gene and Linda Kangas, Decoys, Paducah, KY, 1992, p. 111, plate 156, similar decoy illustrated.

Black duck decoys were Crowell’s most requested species with hundreds carved in typical straight head positions. His preening models are rare and reside in the country’s top private and museum collections. The Magazine Antiques further cemented the iconic status of the Crowell preening black duck when they chose a related example for their September 1989 cover. With its exceptional condition, perfect proportions, and raised wing

Donna Tonelli, Top of the Line Hunting Collectibles, Atglen, PA, 1998, p. 87, similar decoy illustrated.

The Magazine Antiques, September 1989, front cover, similar decoy illustrated. $200,000 - $300,000

The Magazine ANTIQUES, September 1989.

From the journal of Harry V. Long

Courtesy of BMP Media Holdings, LLC.

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GEORGE BOYD 1873-1941 | SEABROOK, NH

A. ELMER CROWELL 1862-1952 | EAST HARWICH, MA

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“The collector values the Merganser decoy by Boyd above his other species.” - Jim Cullen

28A Merganser Hen GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1925 28

The head is slightly turned and uplifted with carved cheeks and a pronounced crest.

In excellent original paint with a tight age line along the back that has been touched-up and approximately two-thirds of bill is replaced.

Joe Engers, ed., The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys, San Diego, CA, 1990, p. 67, related example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Jim Cullen, Finely Carved and Nicely Painted: The Life, Art and Decoys of George H. Boyd, Seabrook, NH, 1873-1941, Rye, NH, 2009, p. 34-37, related example illustrated. $10,000 - $15,000

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29 Miniature Preening Pintail Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920

An extremely rare turned-head miniature carving with the maker’s “A. E. Crowell & Son, Bird Carving, E. Harwich, Mass.” dark blue paper label on the bottom of the base. Crowell made very few preening miniatures; this carving represents a rare opportunity to acquire a version in miniature of the maker’s most iconic species and form. Original paint with minimal wear and touch-up to tip of the tail.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 11, front cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$10,000 - $15,000

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30 Miniature Pintail Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1910

A stunning early miniature carving with the maker’s rare “A. E. Crowell, M’FR, East Harwich” round ink stamp on the bottom of the base. The thin neck and irregular shape of the base date this among his earliest miniatures. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 12, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

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33 Miniature Redhead Drake

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1910 2 by 2 1⁄4 in. long

A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1910

An early, small shorebird carving signed on the bottom “A. E. Crowell, Cape Cod.” Original paint with minimal wear.

An early miniature carving with the maker’s rare “A. E. Crowell, M’FR, East Harwich” round ink stamp on the bottom of the base. Original paint with minimal wear.

$2,000 - $4,000

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 13, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

32 Miniature Goldeneye Drake A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1910

$1,000 - $2,000

An early miniature carving with the maker’s rare “A. E. Crowell, M’FR, East Harwich” round ink stamp on the bottom of the base. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

34 Miniature Redhead Hen A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920

Private Collection

Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Our Annual Cape Cod Decoy Auction, Bourne, MA, 2004, lot 14, back cover, exact carving illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Original paint with minor craquelure and a few minute flakes. $1,000 - $1,500

$1,000 - $2,000

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35 Miniature Redhead

37 Miniature Pintails

39 Miniature Mallard Pair

JAMES LAPHAM (1909-1987) DENNISPORT, MA, C. 1950

BRIG. GEN. CHESTER B. DEGAVRE (1908-1993) ONANCOCK, VA, C. 1960

BRIG. GEN. CHESTER B. DEGAVRE (1908-1993) ONANCOCK, VA, 1958

Signed on the bottom by the maker.

Original paint with minimal wear.

A standing drake and a resting hen signed on the bottom by the maker.

Original paint with minimal wear, a minor chip to hen’s wing tip.

A standing drake and a resting hen signed and dated on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $200 - $300

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$400 - $600

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JAMES LAPHAM (1909-1987) DENNISPORT, MA, C. 1950

WILLIAM H. REINBOLD (B. 1926) CHESTERTOWN, MD, C. 1960 3 1⁄2 in. long

Signed by the maker on the bottom.

Original paint with reset crest tip and minimal wear.

Signed by the maker on the side of the base. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

$200 - $400

Collection $300 - $500

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40 Two Miniature Northern Gannets PERCE, QUEBEC, CANADA, C. 1930 5 1⁄4 by 8 1⁄4 by 10 1⁄4 in.

Early carvings with extended wings and applied bill tips on beveled square bases.

Lettering on one base reads “From Perce P.Q.” St. Bonaventure Island just off the coast of Perce is home to the largest gannet nesting colony in North America.

Original paint with some craquelure, wear, and some seam separation.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove

Collection $200 - $300

41 Two Miniature Carvings RUSS E. BURR (1887-1955) HINGHAM, MA, C. 1950

A standing black duck, signed on the bottom of the base with the maker’s ink stamp. In original paint with light wear.

DR. GEORGE ROSS STARR JR. (1915-1985) DUXBURY, MA, C. 1960.

A ruddy duck drake with raised wings and tail feathers. This little carving was part of lot 368 in the 1986 auction of Dr. Starr’s decoys and bears his oval collection stamp and his inventory number on the bottom. In original paint with light wear and tail feather chips. $100 - $200

43 Five Miniatures A miniature Canada goose by Albert J. Dittman (1884-1974) Williamstown, MA, c. 1950, signed with his A, J, within a D mark on the side. A pair of high-head canvasbacks by Leonard N. Lipham, Jr. (b. 1946) Earleville, MD, 1997, signed on the bottom. A pair of resting canvasbacks by Joe Morgan (1924-2010) Holland, PA, 1965, signed and dated on the bottom. As Found.

PROVENANCE:

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PETER PELTZ (1915-2001) SANDWICH, MA, C. 1970

$400 - $600

A rare life-size tern with extended wings, a life-size cedar waxwing, a miniature screech owl, all three signed “P Peltz” on the bottom, and a pair of unsigned miniature chickadees. Original paint with minor wear. The tern has a reset tail feather and one chickadee has a small hole in the back. $600 - $900

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ROBERT “BOB” WHITE (B. 1939) TULLYTOWN, PA, 1992

ROBERT “BOB” WHITE (B. 1939) TULLYTOWN, PA, C. 1990

A hollow, high-head, Delaware River decoy with raised wing and tail carving. Signed and dated on the underside by the maker. Retains his triangle-shaped, bobwhite-quailembossed lead weight. Original paint with minor wear.

A hollow Delaware River decoy with raised wing and tail carving. Signed on the side of the triangle-shaped, bobwhite-quail-embossed lead weight. Original paint with minor wear.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$400 - $600

$300 - $500

45 Bufflehead Pair

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ROBERT “BOB” WHITE (B. 1939) TULLYTOWN, PA, C. 1980

WILLIAM GIBIAN (B. 1946) ONANCOCK, VA, 2011

Two hollow Delaware River decoys with raised wing tips and tail carving. Signed on the side of the triangle-shaped, bobwhite-quail-embossed lead weight. Original paint with gunning wear and wrapped anchor line impressions.

A hollow, turned-head decoy with carved bill detail, carved wing tips, and the maker’s incised signature on the bottom.

Original paint with possible minor touch-up to tip of tail.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$600 - $900

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$800 - $1,200

GEORGE BOYD 1873-1941 | SEABROOK, NH

48 Miniature Swimming Canada Goose GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1930 6 in. long 49

Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Jim Cullen, Finely Carved & Nicely Painted: The Life, Art and Decoys of George H. Boyd, Rye, NH, 2009, p. 27, similar example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

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49 Miniature Canada Goose GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1930 5 in. long

Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

$1,000 - $2,000

50 Miniature Canvasback Drake GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1930 4 1⁄2 in. long

A slightly turned-head carving with “Canvas Back” written in pencil on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear and minor touch-up to a couple scratches on the head.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

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$1,000 - $2,000

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51 Canvas-Covered Canada Goose GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1920

In 1910 future World War II General George S. Patton (1885-1945) married his wife, Beatrice Ayer, in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Together they owned a farm in nearby Hamilton, Massachusetts, where his son (1923-2004) lived and his daughter-in-law still resides. In the summer of 1923 Patton was assigned to the General Staff Corps in Boston. At that time, Patton purchased a rig of goose decoys from George Boyd. A few years later he was transferred to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. His goose decoys were given to his cousin, William Gordon “Gus” Means. Means was born in Boston in 1884. In 1906 he graduated from Harvard University and joined the ranks of that University’s sportsmen and sporting authors. After college, Means settled north of Boston in Beverly, Massachusetts. In 1941 he authored My Guns and in 1953 wrote My Bird Dogs and Hounds. Both were recollections of his earlier sporting exploits.

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This fine goose with historic provenance bears Means’ brand.

The decoy exhibits tack eyes, a slightly turned head, canvas stretched over a wood frame, and a carved breast and tail.

Original paint with typical Boyd craquelure, a few flaked spots, and even gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Gen. George S. Patton Rig William G. Means Rig Private Collection Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Sporting Sale 2013, Boston, MA, 2013, lot 129, rigmate illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$10,000 - $15,000

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52 Canada Goose A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920

An excellent example of the species by this maker with an early oval brand on the bottom. Original paint with gunning wear, age lines, possible minor touch-up to back of neck seam, and an imperfection on lower right side.

Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Winter Sale 2013, Boston, MA, 2013, lot 334, rigmate illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$10,000 - $15,000

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CHARLES HART 1862-1960 | GLOUCESTER, MA

53 Black Duck CHARLES H. HART (1862-1960) GLOUCESTER, MA, C. 1920

This bold hollow-carved decoy with a pronounced breast displays carved bill detail and highly defined raised wings and primaries. The body of this decoy was hollowed out to one-half-inch thickness and no bottom board was applied, leaving it open. This unusual construction was designed to create a suction on calm gunning waters.

Warren Babson, M.D. of Gloucester, Massachusetts, acquired a rig of similar decoys from Hart, from which a pair of mallards went to the Dr. George Ross Starr Collection. This black duck is amongst the finest Hart decoys ever to come on the market. Outstanding original paint with even gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

George Ross Starr, Jr., M.D., Decoys of the Atlantic Flyway, New York, NY, 1974, p. 178, Figure 88, rigmates illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $6,000

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54 Goldeneye Drake MASSACHUSETTS, C. 1900

A boldly carved sea duck with racy lines, carved eyes, and precise bill carving including undercuts. The head is inletted and the bird shows a distinct “V” cut transition from the body to the tail. Original paint and finish with even gunning wear and a crack along the underside.

PROVENANCE: Adele Earnest Collection

Private Collection LITERATURE:

Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, American Vernacular, Boston, MA, 2002, p. 41, exact decoy illustrated.

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55 Swimming Black Duck CHARLES H. HART (1862-1960) GLOUCESTER, MA, C. 1900

An early hollow decoy from Hart’s own gunning rig. Displays a turned head, carved bill detail, six-piece laminated construction, and the maker’s “C. H. Hart” brand on the bottom. Original paint with even gunning wear and restoration to a small tail chip.

PROVENANCE:

Charles H. Hart Rig Peter Brams Collection Private Collection, Pennsylvania $1,500 - $2,500

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JAMES WALTER FOLGER 1851-1918 | NANTUCKET, MA

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56 Flying Merganser Drake Plaque JAMES WALTER FOLGER (1851-1918) NANTUCKET, MA, 1911 11 by 22 1⁄4 in.

A relief carving on board, signed and dated lower left “James Walter Folger 1911 Nantucket, Mass.” Also signed on the back: “Hand Carved Duck Panel of Shell Drake also painted in oil colors by James Walter Folger Nantucket, MASS. Oct. 1911.”

Several examples of Folger’s work currently reside in the Nantucket Whaling Museum.

Very few of Folger’s carvings ever come to market and this example reveals his great sense of artistry in all aspects. Original paint with minor wear, a few age lines in the plaque bordering the lower portion of the carving, and scattered touch-up.

James Folger at work in his studio, c. 1910.

Photograph courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association

$14,000 - $18,000

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57 Canada Goose JOSEPH W. LINCOLN (1859-1938) ACCORD, MA, C. 1900

This decoy retains a “Bradford” rig brand in the bottom. The Bradfords were one of the earliest prominent families in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The rig was purchased from Lincoln by Harry Ames Bradford (1883-1951), a Plymouth merchant.

A mixture of original and working re-paint with gunning wear and a tight age crack in the bottom.

PROVENANCE:

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58 Black Duck A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1920

A classic Crowell black duck decoy with carved tail feathers and the maker’s oval brand on the bottom. Original paint with gunning wear, a tight age line on one side, and an in-use reset head. $1,500 - $2,500

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59 Black Duck A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1910

An early pre-brand decoy. In gunning repaint with heavy wear. $800 - $1,200

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60 Redhead Hen HENRY KEYES CHADWICK (1865-1958) OAK BLUFFS, MA, C. 1910

A Martha’s Vineyard decoy with a “W. E. Dugan” brand for the gunning rig of William E. Dugan, Sr. (1892-1955). Original paint worn to the wood in places, gunning wear, tail chips, and lower half of the bill is restored. $200 - $400

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61 Bluebill Drake HENRY KEYES CHADWICK (1865-1958) OAK BLUFFS, MA, C. 1930

A well-executed, full-bodied decoy by this famous Martha’s Vineyard maker.

Original paint with fine craquelure, light gunning wear, and a crack along the bottom. $500 - $700

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62 Preening Long-Tailed Duck C. 1900

A rare, turned-head, long-tailed duck decoy in summer plumage, with carved bill definition. In old probably original paint with gunning wear and a loose head. $600 - $900

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63 Merganser Drake AMOS G. WALLACE (1882-1968) WEST POINT, ME, C. 1910

An oversize Down East decoy with carved eyes, and dot-painted feather detail. Original paint worn to the wood in places, some in-use repaint on the bill, gunning wear, and a neck crack.

PROVENANCE:

Daniel Slocum Collection Private Collection $3,000 - $5,000

64 Eider Hen CAPT. MERRITT P. PINKHAM (1861-1947) SEGUIN ISLAND, ME, C. 1900

An oversize Down East sea duck decoy with black glass eyes, an inletted head, and an oval George R. Starr Collection ink stamp on the bottom.

Merritt Pinkham was the lighthouse keeper on Seguin Island in Maine during the Great Storm of 1898 when a schooner shipwrecked on the island. Starr writes, “The keeper of the Seguin Light was a friend of [J. Allen Drinkwater’s, (1866-1952)] named Captain Pinkham. By 1900 he had finally salvaged the schooner’s pine bowsprit, made the eider decoys out of the wood, and sold them to Allen.” Original paint with possible later white accents. Worn to the wood in places with gunning wear,

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and a couple tight cracks, one of which has a wooden patch by the maker.

PROVENANCE:

J. Allen Drinkwater Rig Dr. George Ross Starr Collection Private Collection George Ross Starr, Jr., M.D., Decoys of the Atlantic Flyway, New York, NY, 1974, p.

124 and color plate 13, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

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WILMER L. AMES (1853-1933) MATINICUS ISLAND, ME, C. 1910

GERALD P. TREMBLAY (1918-2001) ALBURG SPRINGS, VT, C. 1950

A wide solid-bodied decoy with carved eyes, carved bill detail, an inletted head, an uplifted tail, and stylized curvilinear paint at the waterline. Retains an incised “W” along the right side. In old working repaint with gunning wear and a tight age crack along the back.

A pair of bufflehead decoys with painted eyes, carved bills, carved wing detail, and incised tail feather delineation. A pair of 4 3⁄4 inch long buffleheads with similar detail. One is a paperweight; the other is finely stamped “G. P. Tremblay.” A pair of 3 1⁄4 inch long goldeneye miniatures by the same maker. As Found.

$600 - $900

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$500 - $800

66 Swimming Scoter MAINE, C. 1910

A swimming decoy with an inletted head and a well-formed body. A rig-mate to this decoy was sold as lot 505 in the sale of Dr. Starr’s decoy collection in 1986. This one was sold by Starr a couple years earlier at his “Duxbury Boathouse” auction and bears the “Starr Collection” fan-shaped stamp on the bottom. Old paint with gunning wear.

68 Scoter Silhouettes AUGUSTUS AARON WILSON (1864-1950) SOUTH PORTLAND, ME, C. 1900

George Ross Starr, Jr., M.D. Collection Private Collection

A pair of white-winged scoter shadow decoys. Of the decoy makers that created flatties, Wilson stands out for the amount of time and detail he put into carving each head. These birds display carved eyes, bill detail, and slightly turned heads that are inletted into the two-inch-thick bodies. Original paint with gunning wear and age lines.

$400 - $600

LITERATURE:

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AUGUSTUS AARON WILSON 1864-1950 | SOUTH PORTLAND, ME

“ Wilson looked at waterfowl much the way the Ward brothers did. There was a similarity in their ability to capture an unusual pose and to produce a decoy that continues to enthrall even the seasoned gunners who have spent their lives observing waterfowl.”

- Captain John Dinan, Maine decoy author and historian

69 Preening Eider Hen AUGUSTUS AARON WILSON (1864-1950) SOUTH PORTLAND, ME, C. 1900

This boldly carved sea duck is one of the finest Wilson eider hen decoys to ever be offered at public auction. The carving features a preening head with carved eyes, bill detail, and raised wings.

This large bird is seventeen and one-half inches long, over eight and one-half inches high, and nine inches wide. The two-piece construction features a prodigious sevenby-four-inch inletted head seat. The bird’s bill tip fuses with the back left corner of the inlay, fully completing the graceful turn of the head. The bottom displays an anchor line ring fastened with an old fence staple.

Wilson was born on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Though he is foremost remembered as a carver, he was also a boat builder, waterman, outdoorsman, and lighthouse

keeper. He was an attendant to a number of Maine’s lighthouses, including the Great Duck Island Light, Goose Rocks Station on Fox Island, Two Lights Station on Cape Elizabeth, Marshalls Point Light at Port Clyde, and lastly Spring Point Light in Casco Bay. According to art historian Gene Kangas, “His job as a lighthouse keeper provided financial security and ample time to facilitate rapid artistic advancement.

Imaginative decoys and wildlife carving began to taking shape in an incredible variety of poses.” Early regional traditions and requirements drove carvers to produce big solid decoys with modest paint patterns. “Seaworthiness, durability, practicality, effectiveness and affordability were essential considerations...Wilson’s genius is demonstrated by his ability to work within those existing traditions, yet elevate the Maine decoy to a higher level of artistic achievement.”

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Wilson’s interests were by no means limited to decoys. He carved a variety of songbirds, decoratives, weathervanes, and big cats.

A pair of Wilson’s tigers are featured in the “American Identities” exhibit, on display as a part of the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.

Original paint with even gunning wear, age lines, and a crack through head.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

LITERATURE:

Gene Kangas, “Gus Wilson, Folk Artist,” Decoy Magazine, Lewes, DE, November/December 1994, pp. 8-13.

Robert Shaw, Bird Decoys of North America, New York, NY, 2010, p. 149, similar decoy illustrated.

David A. Schorsch, American Decoys II, Boyertown, PA, 1998, p. 55 and front cover, similar decoy illustrated. $20,000 - $40,000

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George Soule (left) with a descendent of L.L. Bean.

70 Merganser Drake ORLANDO “OS” BIBBER (1882-1970) SOUTH HARPSWELL, ME, C. 1920 20 1⁄2 in. long

An exceedingly rare, hollow Maine decoy. This grand sheldrake is an outstanding example of Down East American folk art by one of Maine’s premier decoy carvers. Measuring over twenty inches in length, this racy merganser stands apart from most of Bibbers. The bird displays painted eyes, a flowing carved bill, pegged-together body, and the paint retains a dry surface.

Bibber was a mentor to George Soule (1912-1996) of Freeport, Maine and this decoy was a special gift to his student. Soule proudly displayed it on an eye-level shelf in his den where it remained until his passing. Soule is known for his Decoy Shop in Freeport, Maine, that supplied L.L. Bean with thousands of cork and wooden decoys. Original paint with light, even gunning wear and a minor chip to bill tip.

PROVENANCE:

George V. Soule Collection Private Collection Joe Engers, ed., The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys, San Diego, CA, 1990, p. 32, related decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$20,000 - $30,000

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71 Miniature Mallard Decoy Pair ROBERT “BOB” MCGAW (1879-1958) HAVRE DE GRACE, MD, C. 1930 3 1⁄2 by 6 1⁄4 in.

A pair of painted-eye miniature decoys with beveled-edge hardwood bases.

The drake has stippled upper wing paint and the hen has delicate scratchpainted feather detail. Original paint with minimal wear. $500 - $800

72 Miniature Black Duck ROBERT “BOB” MCGAW (1879-1958) HAVRE DE GRACE, MD, C. 1930 3 1⁄2 by 6 1⁄4 in.

inscription “My first whistling swan.”

Original paint with minimal wear, reset wings with touch-up. $1,500 - $2,500

74 Miniature Merganser Pair

A pair of red-breasted mergansers riding a carved wooden wave base, signed by the maker on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear.

$800 - $1,000

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DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE (B. 1924) SEAFORD, DE, C. 1990 5 1⁄4 in. high

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection

$200 - $300

DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE (B. 1924) SEAFORD, DE, C. 1990 5 in. long

A painted-eye, balsa-bodied bird with raised wings. Signed and dated on the bottom by the maker with the

The female bird is signed “D.B.H.” on the underside. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

$500 - $800

OLIVER “TOOTS” LAWSON (B. 1938) CRISFIELD, MD, 1955 5 by 8 3⁄4 by 3 1⁄4 in.

DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE (B. 1924) SEAFORD, DE, C. 1990 7 1⁄2 in. long

DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE (B. 1924) SEAFORD, DE, C. 1990 5 in. long

A painted-eye miniature decoy with a beveled-edge hardwood base and delicate scratch-painted feather detail.

Original paint with minor wear.

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76 Half-Sized Mourning Dove Pair

75 Miniature Widgeon and Mallard Drakes

Signed by the maker on the bottom.

Original condition with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $500 - $800

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77 Miniature Ruffed Grouse and Quail

Each is signed by the maker on the bottom of the base. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $600 - $900

78 Bobwhite Quail Hen DAVISON B. HAWTHORNE (B. 1924) SEAFORD, DE, C. 1980

A resting life-size game bird carving with raised carved leaves on the base. Signed on the bottom of the base by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne Collection

$500 - $800

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79 Two Canvasbacks JAMES “CORB” REED (1897-1987) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, C. 1970

A pair of decoys displaying glass eyes, carved bill detail, fine painted feathering, and carved tail feathers and feet. The resting hen has nearly closed eyes and carved primaries. The turnedhead drake has “Corb Reed” stamped on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear, the drake has two tiny chips to tail feathers. $2,000 - $3,000

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80 Trumpeter Swan REGGIE BIRCH (B. 1953) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, 2015

A life-size decoy with incised wing tip carving, signed by the maker on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear. $1,400 - $1,800

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81 Bobwhite Quail Plaque OLIVER “TOOTS” LAWSON (B. 1938) CRISFIELD, MD, 1967 40 3⁄4 by 28 1⁄2 by 7 in.

An important carving by this famed maker who worked alongside the Ward Brothers in their Crisfield shop. Inspired by a painting by John A. Ruthven (b. 1924), Lawson carved a pair of life-size, full-bodied quail flying past a half-carved raised sumac bush with painted grasses in the background. Signed and dated by the maker in the lower right corner.

Original paint with minor wear. $4,000 - $6,000

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82 Rare Long-Tailed Duck Drake LEMUEL T. WARD (1896-1984) CRISFIELD, MD, 1952

An alert long-tailed duck with a hollow body by Maryland’s most famous maker who rarely carved this species. Signed and dated on the bottom with a painted signature framed with a painted banner. The bottom also has stamped letters “SGH” for the Headley collection and a Noyes Museum exhibition ink stamp dated August 1995. Original paint with light wear.

PROVENANCE:

Somers G. Headley Collection Richard and Lynn Gove Collection $6,000 - $9,000

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83 Black Duck Pair LLOYD AARON STERLING (1880-1964) CRISFIELD, MD, C. 1925

A perfectly matched decoy pair with fine scratch-painted feather detail.

Original paint with gunning wear and an age crack along the bottom of each.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

$8,000 - $12,000

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84 Turned-Head Mallard Drake THE WARD BROTHERS, LEMUEL T. (1896-1984) AND STEPHEN (1895-1976) CRISFIELD, MD, C. 1935

An exemplary, cedar-bodied Ward decoy with glass eyes, carved bill detail, and exceptional carved turned-head attitude. Original paint with light gunning wear, stabilizing touch-up to original Ward filler around neck by Gigi Hopkins, and a tight age crack along the bottom.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

LITERATURE: Ronald J. Gard and Brian J. McGrath, The Ward Brothers’ Decoys:

A Collector’s Guide, Wolfe City, TX, 1989, pp. 82 and 83, similar decoys illustrated. $20,000 - $30,000

Lem and Steve Ward outside their workshop Photograph by A. Aubrey Bodine. Copyright © Jennifer B. Bodine Courtesy of www.aaubreybodine.com

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THE WARD BROTHERS LEMUEL T. 1896-1984 AND STEPHEN 1895-1976 | CRISFIELD, MD

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85 Feeding Brant

PROVENANCE:

Captain Elkanah B. Cobb Rig Richard L. Parks Collection Somers G. Headley Collection William H. Purnell, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above

NATHAN F. COBB, JR. (1825-1905) COBB ISLAND, VA, C. 1880

Cobb Island is known to have produced some of the most animated brant decoys ever carved. This may be due in part to a special affinity for the species that the islanders showed. Nathan Cobb, Sr. maintained a tame flock of brant on the island that were a local attraction and even once collateral for hotel construction loans.

Eugene V. Connett, ed., Duck Shooting Along the Atlantic Tidewater, New York, NY, 1947, p.149, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Gene and Linda Kangas, Decoys: A North Atlantic Survey, Spanish Fork, UT, 1983, page 18 and back of dust jacket, exact decoy illustrated.

This important decoy is documented in Eugene V. Connett’s 1947 masterwork Duck Shooting Along the Atlantic Tidewater. Numerous prominent figures in the early decoy and sporting art community contributed to this volume with chapters written by A. Elmer Crowell, Charles E. “Shang” Wheeler, and Lynn Bogue Hunt.

The “Eastern Shore of Virginia” chapter was penned by Richard L. Parks, a previous owner of this decoy. Parks dedicates much of his chapter to the Cobbs’ story, which was told to him directly by two of Nathan, Jr’s nephews, Lucius (1870-1947) and Arthur Cobb (1870-1951), who were born and raised on the island. Parks writes that “... they and their fathers before them, came pretty close to living the history of duck hunting on the Eastern Shore.”

Grayson Chesser, “Cobb Island, A hunter’s paradise,” Decoy Magazine, Nov/Dec 1998, pp. 8-13.

Alexander Hunter, The Huntsman in the South, New York, NY, 1908, p. 145. $50,000 - $70,000

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86 Running Curlew NATHAN F. COBB, JR. (1825-1905) COBB ISLAND, VA, C. 1880

This bold decoy features the classic Cobb tail split, an original oak bill, and black glass eyes within carved eye grooves. While Cobb curlew decoys are rare, this bird with its original paint and bill is a particularly noteworthy example. This early gunning decoy has impeccable provenance, coming directly to the consignor from renowned decoy collector William J. Mackey, Jr. in the 1960s. The underside of this decoy displays the maker’s large serifed “N.” Original paint with gunning wear, age lines, a crack in bill, and roughness on the tip of bill.

This decoy displays an incised and serifed “E” and an “E. B. COBB.” brand on the underside, designating it as part of Elkanah B. Cobb’s (1852-1943) gunning rig. Elkanah was Nathan Cobb, Jr.’s son and a famed island guide.

While demonstrating all of the bold features that define the Cobb style, this prime example demonstrates a refinement not often seen in southern decoys. This bird features a “root-head” in an animated feeding pose. This feature was likely carved from a single twisted branch of the southern wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera), which is abundant on the island. The neck comes out to the right and both twists and turns down and to the left. The head has inset German glass eyes within carved eye grooves.

The body possesses shoulder carving and a ridge down the length of the back leading to the diamond-shaped raised wingtips. The carving measures eighteen and three-quarters inches from tip to tail and is notable for its outstanding condition.

PROVENANCE:

William J. Mackey, Jr. Collection William H. Purnell, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above in 1968 Robert Shaw, Call to the Sky: The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D., Houston, TX, 1992, p. 83, rigmate illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Robert Shaw, Bird Decoys of North America, New York, NY, 2010, p. 214, rigmate illustrated. $50,000 - $70,000

In addition to the Cobb rig markings and rigging, the underside bears “W.H.P. JR”, “P” and “SGH.” Original paint with even gunning wear and some possible early working touch-up to white.

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NATHAN F. COBB, JR 1825-1905 | COBB ISLAND, VA

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Cobb Island guide and hunter with Cobb decoys, c. 1880.

Photograph courtesy of Thomas J. O’Connor III.

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87 Pintail Drake IRA D. HUDSON (1873-1949) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, C. 1930

A handsome pintail drake with exceptional Hudson paint. The underside bears a “WHP JR” brand.

Original paint with light wear and a crack along the back.

PROVENANCE: Somers G. Headley Collection

William H. Purnell, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above $12,000 - $18,000

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88 Black-Bellied Plover NATHAN F. COBB, JR. (1825-1905) COBB ISLAND, VA, C. 1880

A classic Cobb shorebird decoy with an incised “A” on the underside, from the rig of Nathan Cobb, Jr.’s younger brother, Albert.

“A F Cobb, Cobbs Island, VA ...- 1886” is faintly written on the bottom. A “W.H.P. JR” brand is also on the underside for the Purnell collection. The shorebird displays carved eyes, a through-splined bill, and V-cut wing tip and tail definition. The decoy shows distinct lines and very similar form to the famous Cobb running curlew held in the Purnell collection. Appears to be original paint worn to the wood in small areas, even gunning wear, and an age line in the head.

PROVENANCE:

William J. Mackey Collection William H. Purnell, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above, c. 1968 William J. Mackey, Jr., American Bird Decoys, New York, NY, 1965, p. 153.

LITERATURE:

Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., Southern Decoys, Exton, PA, 1983, p. 208, plate 443, rigmate illustrated. $12,000 - $18,000

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89 Curlew CHARLES S. CLARK (1869-1947), CHINCOTEAGUE, VA OR WILLIAM J. MATTHEWS (B. 1855) ASSAWOMAN, VA, C. 1890

A large shorebird with elliptical carved eyes, a sharp ridge down the back, sharp V-cut wing-tips, and a mortise-and-tenon fit oak bill. The body bears small staple holes indicating that this bird would have had bird wings attached when in use. Branded “W.H.P. JR.” Original paint with gunning wear

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to the wood in many places, a crack in bill, and check in left side.

PROVENANCE:

William H. Purnell, Jr.

Collection $1,500 - $2,500

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90 Hissing Canada Goose IRA D. HUDSON (1873-1949) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, C. 1920

This goose displays Ira Hudson’s most sought after form, and relatively few Hudson geese in this pose are known to exist. A tack-eyed decoy with carved bill detail and a large original pad weight. Original paint with gunning wear, a reset neck with touch-up, small compression marks in wing tip area, age lines, and a crack along the bottom.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., Southern Decoys of Virginia and the Carolinas, Exton, PA, 1983, p. 32, plates 38 and 39, similar examples illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$12,000 - $18,000

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91 Black Duck IRA D. HUDSON (1873-1949) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, C. 1935

An excellent, full-bodied black duck with an ever-so-slightly turned head. The strong head carving features carved bill and nostril detail and tack eyes. The body displays a deep shoulder groove and scratch feather paint with primaries and broad speculums. The plump body tapers down to Hudson’s signature fluted tail.

This decoy was hunted off the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay near Parker’s Island. William J. Mackey, Jr., in his pioneering decoy collecting book, American Bird Decoys, writes that Hudson was, “the most prolific and best commercial decoy maker Virginia ever produced.” Original paint with even gunning wear, shot scars, and a few tail chips.

PROVENANCE:

Brice Davis Rig, purchased directly from Hudson as part of a rig of twelve decoys By descent in the family to the current owner $3,500 - $4,500

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92 Two Black Ducks

94 Red-Breasted Merganser Drake

MARTIN D. COLLINS (B. 1960) BRIDGEWATER, MA, C. 2000

GEORGE STRUNK (B. 1958) GLENDORA, NJ, C. 1990 22 1⁄2 in. long

A pair of North Shore style, slightly oversize decoys with glass eyes, carved bill detail, raised carved wing and tail feathers, original rigging, and the maker’s “M. D. Collins” brand on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

An oversize hollow decoy with a slightly turned head, raised primaries, and carved tail feathers. Signed on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear. $500 - $800

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$500 - $700

95 Black Duck Pair JAMES “CORB” REED (1897-1987) CHINCOTEAGUE, VA, C. 1970

93 Bufflehead Pair MARTIN D. COLLINS (B. 1960) BRIDGEWATER, MA, C. 2010

A pair of decoys displaying glass eyes, carved bill detail, painted feathering, and carved raised wings and feet.

Both are stamped “J C Reed” by the maker on the bottom.

Original paint with minimal wear.

A life-size preening drake with raised wings and a lowhead hen, both branded on the bottom “M. D. Collins.”

Original paint with minor wear.

PROVENANCE:

$800 - $1,200

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$400 - $500

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MARK S. MCNAIR B. 1950 | CRADDOCKVILLE, VA

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96 White Whale MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 2000 11 by 50 by 2 in.

A sperm whale carving with a carved eye, bone teeth, and a well-sculpted tail. The maker’s ink signature, an inscription “1st Wall Hanger,” and incised “McNair” signature are on the back. Original paint with minor wear. $3,000 - $5,000

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JULIUS E. MITTLESTEADT 1888-1957 | BUFFALO, NY

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211 Canvasback Pair JULIUS E. MITTLESTEADT (1888-1957) BUFFALO, NY, C. 1930

An exemplary canvasback pair with incised bill definition and painted tack eyes. The drake has combpainted wings and the hen has stylish outlined wing paint. Original paint with even gunning wear. Drake has a tight crack on one side of the neck. $2,000 - $3,000

212 Merganser Drake JULIUS E. MITTLESTEADT (1888-1957) BUFFALO, NY, C. 1920

An American merganser decoy with painted tack eyes, carved bill detail, comb painting, a branded “N,” and stamped letters “DWS” on the underside. Original paint with gunning wear and some neck filler loss.

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$600 - $900

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213 Gull

is signed by the maker, retains a “Kangas” brand, and is stamped “WD 3.” Original paint with minor wear.

QUEBEC, CANADA, C. 1925

A gull confidence decoy with carved eyes, raised wings, and intricate incised feathering. In working repaint with gunning wear and a bill crack.

PROVENANCE:

Linda and Gene Kangas Collection Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$1,000 - $2,000

Larry Lunman, David W. Nichol and the Decoys of the Rideau Canal Waterway, Louisville, KY, 2009, p. 54, similar decoy illustrated.

214 High-Head Black Duck

$400 - $600

LITERATURE:

ONTARIO, CANADA, C. 1940

This stately decoy has a sharp reared-back head and intricate feather paint. Original paint with even gunning wear. $1,000 - $2,000

216 Goldeneye Drake DAVID W. NICHOLS (1890-1977) SMITH FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1955

A rigged decoy with glass eyes, a lightly “coggled” bill edge, and raised, incised wing tips and tail feathers.

The bottom is signed and dated by the maker. Original paint with minor gunning wear.

215 Wood Duck Drake DAVID W. NICHOLS (1890-1977) SMITH FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA, C. 1950

A well-executed decoy with glass eyes, a lightly “coggled” bill edge, and raised wing tips and tail feathers. The bottom

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PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$200 - $400

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219 Bluebill Hen

221 Miniature Wood Duck Drake

ST. CLAIR FLATS, C. 1920

ONTARIO, CANADA, C. 1930

In old working repaint with gunning wear and a bill chip.

A very hollow St. Clair Flats decoy with scratch paint and “T H” initials impressed in the bottom. In mix of original and working paint with gunning wear.

KEN HARRIS (1905-1981) WOODVILLE, NY, C. 1970 5 1⁄2 in. long

$200 - $300

218 Black Duck

$200 - $400

PROVENANCE:

Collection

$200 - $300

$150 - $250

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, C. 1920

A hollow decoy with glass eyes, carved bill detail, and raised wing tips. Old paint worn to the wood in places, gunning wear, and touch-up at cracked neck seat.

Original paint with minimal wear.

220 Black Duck REEVES FAMILY PORT ROWAN, ONTARIO, CANADA, C. 1900

Original paint with gunning wear and an age line along bottom board. $500 - $700

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MASON DECOY FACTORY 1896-1924 | DETROIT, MI

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224 Golden Plover

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910 12 in.

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1900

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1900

A nice plump Mason plover. Original paint with even wear and a couple small scrapes to the wood.

Original paint with gunning wear, hit by shot with dings on left side.

LITERATURE:

$600 - $900

A tack-eyed shorebird decoy with its original bill. Untouched original paint with light gunning wear. $1,000 - $1,500

Russ J. Goldberger and Alan G. Haid, Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide, Burtonsville, MD, 1993, p. 100 and back dustjacket cover, similar decoys illustrated. $2,500 - $3,500

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225 Premier-Grade Canvasback Drake MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1896

An early hollow canvasback with strong swirl paint.

The underside retains the original weight and is stamped “V L & A CHICAGO” for Von Lengerke & Antoines, a Chicago, Illinois, sporting goods store that opened in 1891. Original paint with even gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$3,000 - $5,000

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Reprinted detail from “Mason’s Decoy Ducks” factory catalog.

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226 Premier-Grade Bluebill Drake

228 Blue-Winged Teal Hen

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1900

Original paint with even gunning wear.

Authors Goldberger and Haid describe a similar challengegrade, blue-winged teal hen as, “rare and hard to find” in their book on Mason decoys. In original paint with light wear, replaced neck filler, minor touch-up to back and head, and roughness to bill edges.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$1,000 - $1,500

227 Challenge-Grade Black Duck

Russ J. Goldberger and Alan G. Haid, Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide, Burtonsville, MD, 1993, p. 58, related example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

A very fine, snakey-head black duck with strong swirl paint and an upswept bill. Original paint with light gunning wear and a tail chip repair.

PROVENANCE:

$2,500 - $3,500

229 Early Black Duck

Private Collection, Midwest

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1900

$3,000 - $5,000

A very early challenge-grade black duck. In original paint with gunning wear, an age line down back and in knot, and touch-up to shot scars and tail chip.

Bernard W. Crandell, Decoying: St. Clair to St. Lawrence, Erin, ON, 1988, p. 72, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $2,500 117

230 Premier-Grade Black Duck MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

A snakey-head decoy with a large “J. L. S.” brand on the bottom. Original paint, gunning wear, tight cracks, a tail chip repair, and some touch-up to body in a few spots. $500 - $800

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231 Premier-Grade Mallard Drake MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

Original paint with even gunning wear, a couple small tail chips, and an age line along the edge of one wing. $500 - $700

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232 Challenge-Grade Black Duck MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1900

An early factory decoy with nice swirl paint and its provenance written on the bottom. Original paint with gunning wear, a few scrapes to wood, a tail chip, tight age cracks, and a loose head.

PROVENANCE:

Ellery Clark Collection Private Collection, Pennsylvania $800 - $1,200

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236 Black Brant

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1905

MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1896

Original paint worn to the wood in places with even gunning wear and body and neck seams have been reset.

An exceedingly early “Canada Brant” as denoted in early Mason catalogs. The head construction is identical to the Canada goose illustrated on page 80 of Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide. The dowel comes through the right side of the head and the original inserted bill goes into the face. The rig brand initials “JFH” are impressed on the back. Original paint with gunning wear, neck filler missing, and a crack along the bottom.

$300 - $500

234 Standard-Grade Pintail MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

In original paint with gunning wear, overpaint on the white, and chipped neck filler.

Russ J. Goldberger and Alan G. Haid, Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide, Burtonsville, MD, 1993, p. 80, related example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$400 - $600

Guyette & Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, St. Charles, IL, April 23-24, 1998, lot 123, rigmate illustrated.

235 Standard-Grade Green-Winged Teal Drake MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1920

$500 - $800

Original paint with touch-up to top of head, gunning wear, and a coat of sealer. $600 - $900

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GEORGE PETERSEN FACTORY 1873-1884 | DETROIT, MI

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237 Redhead Drake GEO. PETERSEN FACTORY (1873-1884) DETROIT, MI, C. 1880

An early and very rare factory decoy by George Petersen (1846-1905). Rig branded “T K Bolton” on the underside.

The bottom also has a painted “D” possibly for the “WMD” discussed in Gene Kangas’ Decoy Magazine article on the subject. Original paint with even gunning wear, a tight age line along the back, neck filler missing, and a darkened bill chip.

Ron Sharp and Bill Dodge, Detroit Decoy Dynasty, Lawsonville, NC, 2009, p. 22, similar decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Gene Kangas, “WMD: The Missing Link,” Decoy Magazine, July/August 2012, pp. 24-31. $1,000 - $1,500

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238 Redhead Drake GEORGE STEVENS (1856-1905) AND HARVEY STEVENS (1847-1894) WEEDSPORT, NY, C. 1880

An early factory decoy with glass eyes, carved bill detail, comb painting, original rigging, and “DWS” initials stamped in the bottom. A mixture of original and working paint, gunning wear, and a neck repair. $400 - $600

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239 Mason Decoy MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1920

A premiere-grade hollow diving duck (may have been a goldeneye) repainted as a black duck. As found. $100 - $200

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240 Standard-Grade Mallard Pair MASON DECOY FACTORY (1896-1924) DETROIT, MI, C. 1910

In original paint with gunning wear, loose heads, and factory cracks. $600 - $900

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WILDFOWLER DECOYS, INC. EST. 1939

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WILDFOWLER DECOYS, INC. (EST. 1939) POINT PLEASANT, NJ, C. 1970

WILDFOWLER DECOYS, INC. (EST. 1939) OLD SAYBROOK, CT, C. 1950

A rare pair of hollow pine wood ducks with glass eyes, bill detail, original keels, and partial “Wildfowler Decoys, Pt. Pleasant, NJ” circular brands. Original paint with minimal wear.

A pair of balsa-bodied teal decoys with glass eyes, detailed paint, original keels, and partial “Wildfowler Decoys, Old Saybrook, Conn” circular brands. Original paint with minor wear.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Dick LaFountain Collection

Dick LaFountain Collection

$800 - $1,200

$800 - $1,200

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244 Pintail Pair

WILDFOWLER DECOYS, INC. (EST. 1939) POINT PLEASANT, NJ, C. 1960

WILDFOWLER DECOYS, INC. (EST. 1939) OLD SAYBROOK, CT, C. 1940

A rare pair of Ward Brothers-style decoys with the Pt. Pleasant Wildfowler circular brand on the bottom of each. Original paint, with gunning wear, touch-up to neck seams, an age line in drake’s head, and hen’s tail is reset.

A pair of hollow pine pintails with glass eyes, carved bill detail, inletted necks, original keels, and partial “Wildfowler Decoys, Old Saybrook, Conn” circular brands. Original paint with light gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Dick LaFountain Collection

$800 - $1,200

Dick LaFountain Collection

$800 - $1,200

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246 Black Duck Pair

ROY H. COLLINS (1883-1949) PORTLAND, CT, C. 1930

TOWNSEND GARVIE CARMAN (1874-1938) AMITYVILLE, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1910

A beautifully sculpted hollow decoy with upswept bill, pronounced cheek an- thigh, and delineated and raised wing carving. Roy Collins was a mid-20th century gunner and mentor to fellow Connecticut artist Chet Reneson (b. 1934.) This is one of the finest Collins known, along with a high-head and snugglehead decoy from this same rig. Original paint with even gunning wear and old tail chips.

Two rare decoys from South Oyster Bay, Long Island, one swimming and the other preening. The decoys display glass eyes, carved bill detail, and the swimmer has raised heart-shaped wings. A turned-head goose by the same maker is illustrated in the book American Vernacular by Maresca and Ricco. Original paint with even gunning wear.

$2,000 - $3,000

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, American Vernacular, Boston, MA, 2002, p. 44, related decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$1,000 - $3,000 123

247 Preening Black Duck JOEL D. BARBER (1876-1952) WILTON, CT, C. 1940

An oversize, turned-head decoy with carved bill detail and balsa body. Barber only produced approximately fifty decoys in his lifetime.

This is an exceedingly rare preening example by the maker. Original paint with some flaking and darkening, and gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

Stephen B. O’Brien, Jr., Antique American Bird Decoys, Boston, MA, 1999, p. 27, item 52, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $4,000 247

248 Mallard Drake JOEL D. BARBER (1876-1952) WILTON, CT, C. 1948

Designed by Joel Barber in his attempt to create the “perfect” decoy. The inscription on the bottom reads: “Owned by C. Disbrow at the time of death - ‘54... Joel for many years tried to design the all-purpose decoy.

This was used for experimental plumage...” The decoy has a laminated cedar body, an inletted mahogany head, and is branded “Barber Decoys.” The bird’s paint was taken down to mostly bare wood in order to repaint plumage to achieve a “perfect” decoy paint pattern.

Taken down to original stained wood and gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Charles W. Disbrow Collection William J. Mackey, Jr. Collection The University Club of Milwaukee Decoy Collection Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

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$500 - $800

249 Black Duck BENJAMIN HOLMES (1843-1912) STRATFORD, CT, C. 1890

A classic Stratford decoy with scratch-painted head, carved bill detail, and shoe-button eyes.

Bottom retains original weight and a “Mackey Collection” ink stamp. In early working repaint possibly by Shang Wheeler (1872-1949) with even gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

William J. Mackey, Jr. Collection Private Collection, Pennsylvania $1,500 - $2,500

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250 Swimming Merganser Drake DANIEL TUSHENSKE (1886-1982) BAY SHORE, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1940

A superb cork-bodied decoy with painted tack eyes, carved bill detail, a carved crest, and intricate paint. Original paint with gunning wear. $400 - $600

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251 Bluebill Drake VERITY FAMILY SEAFORD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1900

A solid-bodied decoy with carved eyes, incised bill outline, and old rigging. Original paint with an old working second coat of white, heavy gunning wear, and cracks in bill and neck. $300 - $500

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252 Curlew EUGENE “CHIEF” CUFFEE (1861-1941) SHINNECOCK RESERVATION, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1910 14 in. long

A large shorebird decoy with carved eyes, a curved bill, and dropped wings. Original paint with touch-up around neck joint, throat, and breast, gunning wear, and tight age cracks in one wing tip and the tail. $1,500 - $1,800

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253 Black-Bellied Plover VERITY FAMILY SEAFORD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1880

A full-bodied shorebird with carved eyes, raised wings, and incised primary feather delineation. Original paint with even gunning wear.

Richard W. Oliver’s, American Bird Decoys, Kennebunk, ME, July 1991, p. 19, lot 64, exact bird illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $6000

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256 Golden Plover

258 Flattie Yellowlegs

VIRGINIA, C. 1890

NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1880

An Eastern Shore of Virginia shorebird with raised v-cut wing tips. Original paint, mostly worn to the wood, gunning wear, a replaced bill, and chips at bill insertion, wing tip, and tail.

An alert shorebird decoy with a split tail and painted eyes from this historic island, renowned for its 19th century plover migrations. Original paint with some overpaint, gunning wear, and a replaced bill.

HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1890

$1,000 - $2,000

PROVENANCE:

255 Golden Plover CAPE COD, MA, C. 1890

A tack-eyed, split-tail shorebird decoy, in winter plumage, with a small screw eye for stringing. Old paint with gunning wear and a faint age line on one side of the head.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove

Collection $400 - $600

Mary Allis Collection Claude and Alvin Bisnoff Collection Private Collection, Pennsylvania $600 - $900

257 Golden Plover Pair NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1890

A rare pair of rigmate shorebird decoys with “beetleheads,� worn hard wax eyes, inserted bills, and two stick holes on the underside of each. Original paint with light gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Martin Mullin Collection Private Collection $1,000 - $2,000

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A rare Shourds silhouette shorebird decoy. Original paint with minor gunning wear. $600 - $800

259 Sandpiper LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1890

A working peep decoy with carved eyes, wings, and wing tips. Original paint with even gunning wear. $500 - $800

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262 Two Black Duck Decoys

VIRGINIA, C. 1890

NEW JERSEY, C. 1900

An Eastern Shore of Virginia shorebird with carved eyes.

Original paint with minimal flaking and gunning wear.

A repainted black duck by Chris Sprague and a heavily weathered and gunned-over decoy by Birdsall or Grant.

As found.

$200 - $400

$200 - $400

261 Broadbill Hen HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1900

263 Hooded Merganser and Brant J. EUGENE HENDRICKSON (1899-1971) NORTHFIELD, NJ, C. 1950

A hollow decoy with painted eyes, a “F.W. Cassedy” brand, and a “H” brand. In repaint with gunning wear and a neck crack.

A hollow merganser decoy with tack eyes, carved bill detail, and a “J E H” brand on the bottom.

PROVENANCE:

F.W. Cassedy Rig Private Collection, Georgia

HURLEY CONKLIN (1913-1983) MANAHAWKIN, NJ, C. 1950

$300 - $500

A hollow swimming brant with a “H. Conklin” brand on the bottom. Both are in original paint with light gunning wear.

The brant has a tight neck crack. $300 - $500

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264 Two Decoys

266 Wigeon Drake

268 Black Duck

A hollow, early-style canvasback by John McLoughlin (1911-1985), Bordentown, NJ. An Alexandria Bay, NY, goldeneye drake. As found.

NELSON “AVERY” TILLETT (1903-1963) OR ALPHONSO D. TILLETT (1881-1954) KITTY HAWK, NC, C. 1920

J. N. DODGE FACTORY (1883-1885) DETROIT, MI, C. 1885

UPPER CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD, C. 1920

The Tilletts were father and son Coast Guard Surfmen who also made decoys.

A canvas-over-wire body with a two-piece head signed “A.T.” on the bottom. Original paint, gunning wear, two breathing holes in breast and tail possibly added for drying.

As found.

$400 - $600

$150 - $250

265 Three Canvasback Decoys

$300 - $500

267 Two Decoys C. 1910

A bufflehead drake from Chincoteague, Virginia, and a redhead decoy from Accomack County, Virginia. As found. $150 - $250 129

An early factory tack-eyed decoy.

As found. $100 - $150

269 Wood Duck Hen A tack-eyed decoy, branded “R I S” on the bottom. Original paint with light wear and a crack along the bottom. $400 - $600

270 Pintail Drake MITCHEL LAFRANCE (1882-1979), CHARLES NUMA JOEFRAU (1913-1983), AND GEORGE FREDERICK, JR. (1907-1977) PHOENIX-DAVANT, LA, C. 1930.

Displays glass eyes, lightly raised wings, and a swimming posture. Original paint with craquelure, flaking, gunning wear, bill edge damage, and a tail repair. $1,000 - $1,500

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271 Swimming Mallard Hen MITCHEL LAFRANCE (1882-1979), CHARLES NUMA JOEFRAU (1913-1983), AND GEORGE FREDERICK, JR. (1907-1977) PHOENIX-DAVANT, LA, C. 1930.

Displays glass eyes, carved bill detail, and lightly raised wings. Original paint with some flaking, gunning wear, and a neck repair. $400 - $600

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272 Green-Winged Teal Hen DENIS PEREIRA (1894-1981) SHELL BEACH, ST. BERNARD, LA, C. 1920

Displays outlined bill carving and raised wings.

Old paint with gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Originally collected by Jack White and Kevin Viguerie Cheramie Collection Private Collection $200 - $400

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273 Coot Pair NEW ORLEANS, LA, C. 1930

Two tack-eyed decoys with carved bill outlines.

In old working repaint with gunning wear. $400 - $600

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274 Mallard Hen S. NEW ORLEANS, LA, C. 1930

An early round-bottom decoy with nice high-head form. In old repaint with gunning wear and a reset head chip. $400 - $600

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275 Pintail Drake CALIFORNIA, C. 1940

A high-head decoy with raised wing tips. Original paint with touch-up to neck area, gunning wear, and tail and neck repairs. $400 - $600

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RANDY TULL B. 1947 | HAYWARD, WI

276 Canvasback Pair RANDY TULL (B. 1947) HAYWARD, WI, 1985

An unsigned decorative resting hen and a drake signed and dated by the maker on the bottom.

Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $400 - $600

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277 Mallard Drake RANDY TULL (B. 1947) HAYWARD, WI, 1986

A decoy with comb-painted feather detail, signed and dated on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $300 - $400

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278 Two Canvasback Hens RANDY TULL (B. 1947) HAYWARD, WI, 1985 AND 1987

An alert hen and a resting hen, both signed and dated by the maker on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $400 - $600

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279 Two Shorebirds EDDIE WOZNY (B. 1959) CAMBRIDGE, MD, C. 1980

Two early life-size shorebird carvings: a turned-head yellowlegs and a ruddy turnstone.

Both have black glass eyes, raised wings with carved primaries, metal rods, and are signed with the maker’s underlined incised “W.” Original paint with minor wear. $500 - $700

280 Wood Duck KENNETH (1927-1995) AND BEVERLY (1929-2010) BASSETT SUTTONS BAY, MI, 1985

A hollow decorative wood duck drake signed and dated on the bottom. Original paint with minor wear.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $100 - $200

281 Standing Canvasback Drake

282 Dowitcher Pair

283 Three Decoys

DAVID PERSONIUS (B. 1953) TWO RIVERS, AK, 2014

GEORGE W. WALKER (1914-1992) CHESTERFIELD, NJ, 1970

Both dowitchers have glass eyes, raised wings, and are signed and dated on the underside by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear.

A hollow canvasback drake, a wigeon drake, and a shoveler drake. Each displays extensive carving, highly detailed paint, and is signed by the maker on the bottom. Walker was a life-long, award-winning carver, and a member of the Easton Waterfowl Festival’s Hall of Fame. The wigeon was a runner-up in the 1970 U.S. National Decoy Show.

Original paint with minor wear.

The shoveler has a tail chip.

$150 - $250

ALFRED OLSON (1920-2013) BALSAM LAKE, WI, 1978 15 by 21 by 13 in.

A life-size decorative bird carving signed and dated on the base by the maker. Original paint with minor wear, some carved feather loss above tibia.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $100 - $300 133

282A Feeding Yellowlegs DAVID PERSONIUS (B. 1953) TWO RIVERS, AK, 2014

A feeding yellowlegs with glass eyes, raised wings, signed and dated on the underside by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear. $100 - $150

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection $500 - $800

284 Four Waterfowl Carvings A decorative ring-necked drake decoy by Herb Miller, Ship Bottom, NJ, 1973. A bufflehead drake initialed “J.K.,” 1984.

A decorative pintail drake by H.E. Foor, 1985. A decorative ruddy duck drake by Ken Harris, Woodville, NY, c. 1970, with the maker’s brand on the bottom. As found.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $200 - $300 284

285 Four Waterfowl Carvings An old factory mallard repainted as a gadwall hen by J. Mabry, 1972. A pintail drake by Capt. Harry Jobes, 1980.

A wood duck drake by Charles Moore, 1981. A onequarter size Canada goose by Randy Tull, 1983. As found.

PROVENANCE:

Charles “Buddy” Harris Collection By descent in the family to the current owner $200 - $300

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286 Six Miniature Decoys 8 to 10 in. long

A pair of long-tailed ducks by Sean Sutton (b. 1967) Paulsboro, NJ, c. 2000, signed on the underside. A pair of pintails and a pair of canvasbacks by George Strunk (b. 1958) Glendora, NJ, c. 2000, with the maker’s stamped weights. Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

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287 Sandpiper on Driftwood DELBERT “DEL” SMITH (B. 1922) OTIS, OR, 1978

A life-size resting bird carving signed and dated by the maker on the top of the base. Original paint. $200 - $300

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288 Two Songbirds KEN KIRBY (B. 1946) LITTLE EGG HARBOR, NJ, C. 2000

A life-size robin with the maker’s stamp under the tail and a red-winged blackbird. Original paint with minimal wear. $200 - $400

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289 Robin Tree KEN KIRBY (B. 1946) LITTLE EGG HARBOR, NJ, 2015

25 in. high

Five miniature robin carvings on a natural tree branch mounted on a turned wooden base. Signed and dated by the maker on the bottom. Original paint with minimal wear. $300 - $500

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290 Carolina Parakeet PENNSYLVANIA (ATTR.) 13 in. long

“Carolina Parakeet” is printed on the bottom of base. This bird carving appears to have good age.

Original paint with wear, a couple dings, toes missing, and chip to underside of tail. $800 - $1,200

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291 Penguin Pair 10.5 in. tall

A handsome pair of penguins with applied heads and incised raised wings. In original paint with wear, craquelure, and a weathered surface, the straight head bird is missing part of its right foot. $2,000 - $3,000

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292 Owl and Crow HERTERS MANUFACTURING INC. (EST. 1890s) WASECA, MN, C. 1940 18 in. high

Two crow hunting decoys consisting of a Model Perfect #90 great horned owl and a Model Perfect #12 clutch crow Feather Weight.

Original paint with some flaking, gunning wear, a cracked eye, and some varnish on head.

Robert Shaw, Bird Decoys of North America, New York, NY, 2010, p. 100, similar decoy illustrated.

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$2,000 - $3,000 292

293 Two Upland Bird Dog Plaques BRADLEY AND HUBBARD MANUFACTURING CO. MERIDEN, CT, C. 1920

A rare matched pair of hand-painted cast iron plaques with model number 2145 “English setter and grouse” and 2144 “Irish setter with partridge” and a “B&H” encircled mark on the back.

Both have matching brass 2144 and 2145 frames. Original paint with minimal wear. $1,500 - $2,500 293

294 Canada Goose Hooked Rug GEORGE WELLS (1906-1988) GLEN HEAD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1930 wool, 27 by 45 in. signed “W” lower left

Minor wear with some stain spots in background. $200 - $300

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295 Oyster Trade Sign PARKS’ OYSTER HOUSE, C. 1920 oil on plywood, 36 by 60 in.

A hand-lettered restaurant sign with even wear, edge chips, and tight age lines. $500 - $800

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296 Builder’s Model Half Hull SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY 54 by 10 in.

Laminated wood with white paint and ink measurements. Original paint with minor wear and a couple tight age cracks. $300 - $500

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297 Four Glass Shell-Shaped Flasks WILLIAM T. MURPHY NEW YORK, NY C. 1890

A 3 1⁄2 in. and a 5 1⁄4 in. clam-shaped flask marked “Pat. Apl. For.” A 4 3⁄4 in. scallop-shaped flask with worn paint and a “Tony Faust” 5 in. oyster-shaped flask. Other oyster flasks like this have “Faust” engraved on the top of the metal cap, this one does not have its cap, so the Faust is attributed. In the second half of the 19th century, in St. Louis, Tony Faust had the largest Oyster House and Saloon in the Mid-West. This flask could have contained liquor or his famous oyster sauce. As found.

PROVENANCE:

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$500 - $600

298 Uncle Sam Statue 1895 plaster sculpted figure, 26 by 10 1â „4 by 7 1â „2 in.

Plaster figures were enormously popular from the time of the Civil War through to the end of the 19th century. Fashionable subjects included President Lincoln, Civil War generals, and ordinary men, women, and children performing daily tasks. Old paint with some repairs and touch-up. $6,000 - $9,000

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299 Stag’s Head BLACK FOREST, GERMANY 1900 wooden plaque is 16 by 14 in.

11 1⁄2 by 15 3⁄4 by 15 in. without the antlers

A life-size, hand-carved, wooden red deer head with an actual set of deer antlers (which are removable) mounted on a walnut plaque.

As found. $1,000 - $1,500

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300 Carved Moose ALBERT DEMERS (1910-1989) (ATTR.) CANADA, C. 1950

Minor wear with one antler reset and chips to both. $1,500 - $2,500

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301 Three Miniature Snowshoes NEW ENGLAND, C. 1910 6 3⁄4 by 2 1⁄8 by 1⁄4 in.

Likely made as salesman’s samples, these miniature snowshoes have yarn decoration on the outside edge stitching, a feature commonly associated with Native American work. As found. $200 - $300

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302 Brook Trout JIM FOOTE (1925-2004) PT. MOUILLE AND GIBRALTOR, MI, C. 1990

An eleven-inch-long fish carving with detailed paint signed by the maker on the underside of one fin. Original paint with minimal wear. $1,400 - $1,800

reel seat has a metal plate in the rod which is stamped “C. F. Orvis, Maker, Manchester, VT, Patented June 6th, 1882.” The end cap is also stamped “C. F. Orvis, Maker, Manchester, VT.” The wooden tube is gone, but there is an old sock with some stitched repairs.

As found. $200 - $400

303 Early Orvis Fly Rod CHARLES F. ORVIS (1831-1915) MANCHESTER, VT, C. 1885

An early Calcutta Bamboo fly rod. The reel section measures 41 1⁄16 in. long, two mid-sections measure 41 3⁄16 and 41 1⁄16 in., and the tip measures 40 3⁄4 in.

All four sections have a “153” marked on them. Each year, Orvis renumbered their rods, so serial number #153 was the 153rd rod made that year. The reel section has it stamped twice in the metal reel seat rings and on the other sections it is written on the wood. The

304 Salmon Reel EDWARD VOM HOFF (1846-1920) NEW YORK, NY

Model 423, 3-0 salmon reel, marked “Edward Vom Hofe, Maker, N.Y., Pat. May 20.02” Serial number U185. This classic fly reel has a 3 7⁄8 in. diameter and a 1 1⁄2 in. wide spool. Features a head-plate-mounted, sliding switch and a tail-plate drag-adjusting ring with red indicator dots. As found. $1,500 - $2,000

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305 Salmon Plaque RAKEL WEYERSVANG NORWAY, C. 1950 9 3⁄4 by 37 3⁄4 by 1⁄2 in.

Weyersvang was a Norwegian designer who produced wooden objects for the home, from teak wood primarily, with a group of craftsmen and furniture makers. The fish has hand-chiseled detail and retains a small “R W, Norway” brand on the back. As found. $200 - $400

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309 Pointer Boot Scraper

C. 1920

C. 1920 6 3⁄4 by 13 1⁄4 by 1⁄2 in.

A carved duck tail with a lead counterweight and an old leather anchor line loop. When deployed, the decoy appears to be feeding underwater. In original paint with even gunning wear.

Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Decoys, New York, NY, 1965, p. 114, plate 99, similar tip-up illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$400 - $600

A metal boot scraper mounted on a larger base.

As found.

310 Canada Goose Tip-Up VIRGINIA, C. 1910

A weighted back half of a goose body which tips up to replicate a half-submerged feeding goose. Original paint with gunning wear. $200 - $400

A plover and a sandpiper.

As found.

$200 - $400

A bell-shaped, hardwood butter mold with an incised swan motif that leaves a raised swan impression in the top of a round three-andone-half-inch butter pad.

As found. $100 - $150

A Hopi woven eagle plaque from the Southwest, c. 1930.

A shallow woven basket attributed to the Tlingit tribe, Pacific Northwest, c. 1940.

As found.

317 Metal Sporting Collectibles

315 Three Native American Miniature Bags

As found.

312 Winchester Knives Counter Display Case

NEW ENGLAND, C. 1850

Two four-inch-long dove shooting gallery targets, two painted cast metal partial corn cobs, and five assorted decoy line anchors. As found. $10 - $20

C. 1920 8 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄4 by 2 3⁄8 in.

308 Vintage Powder Horn

316 Swan Butter Mold

Hopi 10 1⁄2 in., Tlingit 8 1⁄2 in. diameter

$100 - $200

$100 - $200

An ox horn with scrimshawstyle etched waterfowl and deer hunting scenes, filling end plug is a replacement, pouring end plug is missing, with a maker’s etched signature “R LOPER”.

As found.

314 Tlingit and Hopi Basket

311 Cat Door Stop

$100 - $200

R. LOPER C. 1880 3 1⁄2 in. diameter by 24 in. long

$100 - $300

$200 - $300

307 Two Tin Shorebirds STRATER AND SOHIER (1874-1910) BOSTON, MA, C. 1880

original box. A 1960s Texaco jet fuel truck by Brown and Bigelow of St. Paul, MN, measuring 23 in. long, with an original box. As found.

beaded bag 2 1⁄2 by 2 3⁄4 in.

A small beaded bag, sewn shut, and a deerskin bag with beaded decoration, both are attributed to the Lakota Sioux and thought to be prayer bags. A trade cloth bag with beaded decoration from the Pacific Northwest attributed to the Tlingits. As found.

14 by 17 1⁄2 by 2 1⁄4 in.

A glass-topped, lift-back display case. As found. $200 - $300

$300 - $400

313 Two Toy Texaco Trucks A 1959 Buddy L Texaco tank truck by Moline Pressed Steel Co., E. Moline, IL, measuring 23 3⁄4 in. long, with a partial

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318 Dog Ashtray and Wood Plaque A 4 by 5 1⁄2 in. carved flying miniature ruddy duck plaque or box lid. A cast metal ashtray with a 1 1⁄2 in. high metal dog. As found. $10 - $20

319 Native American Weaving 19 1⁄2 by 19 in.

As found. $20 - $40

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327 Fish Decoy with Red Head

OSCAR PETERSON (1887-1951) CADILLAC, MI, C. 1930 6 in. long

OSCAR PETERSON (1887-1951) CADILLAC, MI, C. 1930 5 1⁄8 in. long

C. 1940 7 1⁄2 in. long

Original paint with some wear, flaking, and a couple tight age cracks.

Original paint with flaking and wear.

PROVENANCE:

Collection $500 - $800

321 Fish Decoy C. 1910 13 1⁄2 in. long

A large painted-eye fish decoy with applied lead weights to the surface of the bottom. Original paint with craquelure, worn to the wood in places, and the galvanized forward fin pair may be in-use replacements.

PROVENANCE:

$500 - $700

Davison B. Hawthorne

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $1,000 - $2,000

322 Trout OSCAR PETERSON (1887-1951) CADILLAC, MI, C. 1930 5 3⁄4 in. long

Original paint with flaking and wear, mostly along bottom. $500 - $700

A thin tack-eyed fish decoy with its original jigging line. Original paint with areas of in-use repaint and wear.

PROVENANCE:

324 Three Fish Decoy Blanks Two five-inch-long fish decoy carvings, one with carved gills, and one six-and-one-half-inch-long carving.

All three are carved out for pouring lead-inletted weights and curved for circular swimming motion. All three are unfinished.

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $500 - $800

328 Two Miniature Fish Decoys

Collection

A diminutive two-inch-long white fish decoy with black spots, wear, and a tail chip. A fish decoy with a red face, vertical stripes, and light wear measuring two and five-eights inches long. As found.

$200 - $400

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection

325 Trout

$200 - $400

OSCAR PETERSON (1887-1951) CADILLAC, MI, C. 1930 7 in. long

329 Three Fish Carvings

Original paint with minor flaking and wear.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $500 - $800

326 Sturgeon C. 1940 8 1⁄2 in. long

C. 1920

All three fish carvings are made by the same carver and measure five and one-quarter inches long. One displays cross-hatched detail, one has vertical chiseled detail, and the third has glass eyes. As found. $2,200 - $2,600

Old paint with wear, tail chips, and missing a glass bead eye. $500 - $800

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337 Snake and Lizard Cane

c. 1930 33 1⁄2 in. long

JACKSON, MI, C. 1920 35 1⁄2 in.

C. 1900 37 3⁄4 in. long

A carved wooden cane with an antler top, a carved face, a couple snakes, a frog, and an insect. As found.

One hundred years ago prisoners were “employed” in the prisons of many states. The prison in Jackson, Michigan, opened in 1840 and for the next one hundred years its inmates produced wooden products and furniture. This extensively carved cane exhibits a couple snakes, an alligator, a turtle, a couple dogs, and a carved ball top. As found.

A walking stick with carved snakes and lizards. As found.

$200 - $300

331 Eagle Head Cane SIOUX (ATTR.) 1890 34 1⁄2 in. long

As found.

$600 - $900

$200 - $400

335 Alligator Handle Cane 332 Whimsey Box Cane or Garden Marker C. 1930 40 1⁄4 in. long

A carved penguin-type bird sits atop a carved box with three reptiles below.

As found. $100 - $200

333 Lizard Cane C. 1920 36 1⁄4 in.

35 1⁄2 in.

Retains a stylized alligator carving on the top of the handle. As found.

$200 - $400

338 Snake Cane MASSACHUSETTS, C. 1900 35 1⁄2 in. long

A silver cap on the top of the cane is engraved “Presented to the President of the Plymouth Cordage Company

by E.E. Dreyfus 1906.” The Plymouth, Massachusetts, Cordage Company (1824-1964) produced rope and twine for 140 years. As found. $3,000 - $5,000

$200 - $400

336 Elephant Cane 36 1⁄4 in. long

A lathe-turned, tropical wood shaft with carved elephants and a ball top. As found. $200 - $400

A walking stick with two carved lizards facing one another. As found. $300 - $500

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97 Preening Whistling Swan MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

This hollow life-size decoy displays exceptional form and classic lines. The bird has lightly carved bill detail, tack eyes, the maker’s incised signature, and an original weight on the bottom. Original paint with light wear and an old age crack along the bottom.

LITERATURE: Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Sporting Sale 2009,

Plymouth, MA, July 2009, lots 15 and 16, similar examples illustrated. $5,000 - $10,000

Mark McNair in his studio, c. 1985

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98 Whistling Swan MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

A life-size hollow decoy with carved eyes and bill detail. This bird displays a long graceful neck, the maker’s incised signature, and heavy original rigging on the bottom. Original paint with even wear and age lines.

Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Sporting Sale 2009, Plymouth, MA, July 2009, lots 15 and 16, similar examples illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$5,000 - $10,000

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99 Eider Drake with Mussel MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

A classic Down East inspired decoy with carved eyes, bill detail with a carved mussel, an inletted head, and raised primaries. Signed with the maker’s incised signature on the bottom. Original paint with minor wear.

wear, the hen has an age line in the head and the drake has a couple age lines.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

$2,000 - $3,000

104 Rocking-Head Coot MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

$2,000 - $3,000

A full-bodied hollow decoy with tack eyes, raised heart-shaped wings, and the maker’s incised signature on the bottom.

Original paint with minor wear.

100 Wood Duck Drake

$1,000 - $1,400

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 2005

A hollow decoy with raised wing tips and carved primary feathers. An incised “McNair” signature and the original rigging are on the bottom. Original paint with even gunning wear. $2,500 - $3,000

105 Tern MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

A stylized bird carving with applied sides, a splined bill, and the maker’s incised signature on the underside. Original paint. $600 - $900

101 Wigeon Drake MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990

A hollow working decoy with the maker’s incised signature and a “Walsh” rig brand on the bottom. Original paint with gunning wear, a reset bill, and gunning repair to tail by the maker.

Provenance: Clune Walsh Rig Private Collection $1,200 - $1,800

102 Pintail Drake MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1980

An early, hollow, low-headed decoy with glass eyes, detailed comb painting, raised primaries, an oak tail, and the maker’s incised signature on the bottom. Original paint with minor wear. $1,500 - $2,500

103 Canvasback Pair MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1980

Two early divers with glass eyes, carved bill detail, and knife carving. Signed with the maker’s incised signature on the bottom of each. Original paint with minor

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106 Yellowlegs MARK S. MCNAIR (B. 1950) CRADDOCKVILLE, VA, C. 1990 17 3⁄8 by 14 by 4 1⁄4 in.

A life-size greater yellowlegs with raised wings, a through-splined bill, old wire legs, and a tiger maple base. Signed by the maker on the underside. Original paint with wear. $400 - $600

EDDIE WOZNY B. 1959 | CAMBRIDGE, MD

107 Wing-Up Curlew EDDIE WOZNY (B. 1959) CAMBRIDGE, MD, 2015

A life-size, long-billed curlew with carved wing and tail feather detail.

Signed and dated on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear. $2,000 - $2,500

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108 Bobwhite Quail EDDIE WOZNY (B. 1959) CAMBRIDGE, MD, 2015

A life-size game bird with carved wing and tail feather detail.

Signed and dated on the bottom of the base. Original paint with minimal wear. $1,000 - $1,200

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109 Life-Size Turkey FRANK S. FINNEY (B. 1947) CAPEVILLE, VA, C. 1990

An exceedingly rare, life-size turkey carving with extensive feather detail. Signed by the maker on the top edge of the base. Original paint with minimal wear. $4,000 - $6,000

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JIM SCHMIEDLIN B. 1945 | BRADFORDWOODS, PA

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111 Pintail Drake

112 Fulvous Tree Duck

JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 1992

JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, C. 1980

JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 1983

An alert decoy with a slightly turned head and carved wing and tail feathers. Signed by the maker with the decoy’s gunning history on the bottom. Original paint with light gunning wear.

A hollow, slightly turned-head decoy with carved primary and tail feathers, the maker’s pencil signature, a dedication, and the “JAS” brand.

Original paint with light wear.

A rare decoy species by the maker.

“The first of 2 I’ve ever made” is written on the bottom along with a dedication, the maker’s signature, and his initial brand. Original paint with minimal wear.

$4,000 - $6,000

$4,000 - $6,000

$6,000 - $8,000

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JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 1985

JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 2002

A hollow turned-head decoy with a raised wing and carved tail feathers. Signed and dated on the bottom by the maker with his “JAS” brand.

Original paint.

A slightly oversize, hollow, turned-head decoy with raised wings and etched tail feathers.

Signed and branded on the bottom by the maker.

Original paint with minor gunning wear.

$4,000 - $6,000

$4,000 - $6,000

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JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 1985

JIM SCHMIEDLIN (B. 1945) BRADFORDWOODS, PA, 1986

A hollow, slightly turned-head decoy with raised wings and carved tail feathers. The bottom of the decoy is signed and dated by the maker with his “JAS� brand and also has a written dedication and a keel with a swing weight. Original paint with minimal wear.

A hollow oversized decoy with detailed bill carving, textured sides, raised wing tips, and carved tail feathers. Signed and branded by the maker, with an extensive written gunning history on the bottom.

Original paint with even gunning wear.

$3,000 - $5,000

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FRANK S. FINNEY (B. 1947) CAPEVILLE, VA, C. 1990

CAPE COD, MA, C. 1950

GEORGE STRUNK (B. 1958) GLENDORA, NJ, C. 2000

A life-size game bird carving with carved wing and tail feather detail.

Incised, scrolled “FF” maker’s signature on back of wall mount. Original paint with minimal wear.

A shorebird carving with raised wings, wire legs, and a conjoined “DHB” initial signature. Original paint with some flaking and minor wear. $300 - $500

$1,200 - $1,600

PROVENANCE:

121 Miniature Turkey 118 Flying Grouse MIKE BORRETT (B. 1960) MADISON, WI, 2001 16 by 18 by 13 in.

Signed and dated by the maker on the top of one wing and mounted on a grainpainted beveled base. Original paint with minimal wear. $600 - $900

119 Mourning Dove FRANK S. FINNEY (B. 1947) CAPEVILLE, VA, C. 1990 13 in. long

A life-size bird carving with incised raised wing tips, tail feathers, and an incised “F” signature on the bottom of the base.

Original paint with minimal wear. $800 - $1,200

A hollow, slightly turned-head confidence decoy with glass eyes, bill detail, and carved wing tips and tail feathers. Signed on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with minor gunning wear.

STAN SPARRE (1922-2011) EAST FALMOUTH, MA, C. 1970 4 1⁄2 in. long

A slightly turned-head carving with raised wings, carved feather detail, and the maker’s signature on the bottom.

Original paint with minimal wear, one leg spur is missing. $100 - $300

122 Decorative Willet WILLIAM GIBIAN (B. 1946) ONANCOCK, VA, C. 2000

A life-size shorebird carving displaying an open bill, extensive wing and tail feather carving, a raised foot, and the maker’s incised signature on the bottom of the base. The bird is carved in a feigning posture used by birds to distract predators from their nest. Original paint with minor wear and touch-up to feet. $1,200 - $1,800

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124 Early Yellowlegs C. 1860

Adele Earnest’s crown-head yellowlegs were prized by Earnest and other early collectors, with examples landing in the William J. Mackey, Jr. collection and important collections in Connecticut and New Jersey. This early shorebird decoy has a metal bill and metal stick-up rod. The underside of the bird has an “Adele Earnest Collection” stamp. Original paint with gunning wear, an original check runs along the body on the left side.

PROVENANCE:

Adele Earnest Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

David S. Webster and William Kehoe, Decoys at Shelburne Museum, Burlington, VT, 1961, p. 110, No. S-9-B, rigmate illustrated.

Kenneth L. Gosner, Working Decoys of the Jersey Coast and Delaware Valley, Cranbury, NJ, 1985, p. 163, figure 76, rigmate illustrated.

Adele Earnest, noted antique decoy collector and author of The Art of The Decoy and Folk Art in America, shown here in August, 1968 with her “favorite decoys”.

Photograph courtesy of Private Collector, Florida

Adele Earnest, Folk Art in America, Exton, PA, 1984, p. 134, similar decoy illustrated.

James R. Doherty, Classic New Jersey Decoys, Louisville, KY, 2011, p. 183, rigmate illustrated. $3,000 - $5,000 74

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125 The Adele Earnest Running Sickle-Billed Curlew CAPE COD, MA, C. 1880 20 1⁄2 in. long

This decoy holds a distinct place in the realm of early American folk art. Seven years into decoy collecting, Adele Earnest considered this curlew her favorite decoy.

She documents this in Hal Sorenson’s Decoy Collector’s Guide in the October-November-December 1963 issue.

Earnest prominently featured this bold decoy with flowing lines in her The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings and Folk Art in America books.

Tom Geismar and Harvey Kahn discuss a related curlew carving in Spiritually Moving: A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture.

“Rare form, brilliant execution and original surface combine to make this long-billed or sickle-billed curlew a true masterpiece of American sculpture...

At twenty and a half inches in length, it ranks among the largest of shorebird decoys. The overall affect is greatly enhanced by a muted surface of brown and blacks that features painted feathers applied with delicate strokes reminiscent of Japanese or Chinese brushwork.”

The carving exhibits full-bodied form, finely painted outlines around shoe button eyes, a split tail containing a painted “K” with serifs, and a small “Adele Earnest Collection” stamp on the underside.

Original paint with even wear and flaking to the wood, a crack in bill has been reset.

PROVENANCE:

Adele Earnest Collection Private Collection, Florida Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings, New York, NY, 1965, p. 53, plate 31, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Adele Earnest, Folk Art in America, Exton, PA, 1984, p. 128, exact decoy illustrated.

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, W. Farmington, ME, April 1993, lot 648, exact decoy illustrated. $12,000 - $18,000

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126 Running Yellowlegs A. ELMER CROWELL (1862-1952) EAST HARWICH, MA, C. 1915

An exemplary running yellowlegs, this decoy displays painted tack eyes and superb paint. Excellent original paint with minor even gunning wear, lightly hit by shot on one side.

PROVENANCE:

Ralph Lasbury Collection Andi and David Fischer Collection Private Collection, Florida Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, St. Michaels, MD, July 29-30, 2004, lot 174, exact decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings, New York, NY, 1965, pp. 170 and 171, plates 145 and 147, similar decoy illustrated. $15,000 - $25,000

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127 Yellowlegs JOSEPH W. LINCOLN (1859-1938) ACCORD, MA, C. 1890

A tack-eyed shorebird decoy with finely executed stippled paint. Original paint with light gunning wear and neck has been reset with minimal touch-up.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection,

Florida $1,500 - $1,800

LITERATURE:

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, W. Farmington, ME, April 1998, lot 222, exact decoy illustrated.

lived and farmed along Hummock Pond Road. Original paint worn to the wood in places, gunning wear, and a replaced bill.

Sotheby’s and Guyette & Schmidt, American Waterfowl Decoys: The Distinguished Collection of Dr. James M. McCleery, New York, NY, 2000, lot 556, related flattie illustrated.

PROVENANCE:

$2,000 - $3,000

128 Sanderling SOUTH SHORE, MA, C. 1900 6 in. long

A petite peep from the Dr. James M. McCleery Collection. Original paint with light gunning wear and a reset bill tip.

PROVENANCE:

Dr. James McCleery

Collection Private Collection, Florida

129 Yellowlegs GARDNER FAMILY NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1880

A tack-eyed shorebird decoy with raised wings, four carved primary feathers, and notched tail feather definition. This bird is from the Gardner Family rig, used at their gunning stand on Hummock Pond.

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Gardner Family Rig Private Collection, Florida $1,000 - $1,200

130 Black-Bellied Plover NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1880

A flat-topped, beetle-head shorebird, partially hollowed out from the bottom, with painted eyes, raised wing tips, and a stringing hole through the tail. Original paint with heavy gunning wear and an original patch to wood in lower breast.

PROVENANCE:

Joseph B. French Collection Private Collection, Florida $1,000 - $1,500

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131 Golden Plover NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1850

An exceptionally light and hollow two-piece decoy with a vertical body seam. The bird displays pronounced raised wings, scalloped carving on the top and bottom of the tail, shoe button eyes, and a small stick hole. This decoy likely pre-dates the Civil War. Original paint with light gunning wear and a reset wing tip.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

Richard W. Oliver’s, American Bird Decoys, Kennebunk, ME, July 1991, p. 18, lot 60, exact bird illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$10,000 - $15,000

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132 Golden Plover CAPT. WILLIAM J. WYER (1822-1913) NANTUCKET, MA, C. 1870

A tack-eyed shorebird with a split tail, and a small “JF” stamp on the underside.

Original paint with gunning wear and a possible replaced bill.

PROVENANCE:

Russell Holst Collection Fred Ellerman Collection Joseph B. French Collection Private Collection, Florida $1,000 - $1,500

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133 Plover MASSACHUSETTS, C. 1890

A shorebird decoy painted in eclipse plumage, with black glass eyes and precisely cut raised wing tips. Original paint with gunning wear, touch-up to head, and replaced bill.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$2,000 - $3,000

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134 Yellowlegs GEORGE BOYD (1873-1941) SEABROOK, NH, C. 1900

An early Boyd plover. Original paint with gunning wear, chipped eyes, and neck repairs.

PROVENANCE:

Joseph B. French Collection Private Collection, Florida $1,000 - $1,400

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135 Dowitcher JOHN DILLEY QUOGUE, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1890

Original paint with even gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings, West Chester, PA, 1965, p. 60, Fig. 41, similar decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

William J. Mackey, Jr., American Bird Decoys, New York, NY, 1965, color plate IV, similar decoy illustrated.

Timothy Sieger, The Decoys of Long Island, Water Mill, NY, 2010, p. 48, similar example illustrated.

Oliver’s, American Bird Decoys, Kennebunk, ME, October 1994, lot 610, exact decoy illustrated. $8,000 - $12,000

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136 Peep OBEDIAH VERITY (1813-1901) SEAFORD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1890

A plump sanderling decoy displaying carved eyes, stippled paint feathering, a throughsplined bill, signature Verity raised wings, and a ridged crown along the middle of the tail feathers. Finding documented Verity shorebirds is exceptionally difficult. This example, acquired directly from The Hillman auction in 1996 by the consignor, bears a “Hillman Collection” ink stamp on the underside. Original paint with gunning wear, lightly hit by shot.

PROVENANCE:

John Hillman Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., The Hillman Collection: Rare Antique Waterfowl

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Decoys, W. Farmington, ME, April 1996, lot 233, exact decoy illustrated. $7,000 - $9,000

137 Curlew WILLIAM H. SOUTHARD (1874-1940) SEAFORD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1900 16 3⁄4 in. long

A rare, early shorebird decoy, one of a few Southard curlews known to exist. It displays carved eyes, raised wings with incised primary feather definition, and a “McCleery” collection stamp on the underside. Original paint with gunning wear, age lines in body, and bill is a professional replacement.

PROVENANCE:

Dr. James M. McCleery Collection Private Collection, Florida

LITERATURE:

John M. Levinson and Somers G. Headley, Shorebirds, Centreville, MD, 1991, p. 65, exact decoy illustrated.

Sotheby’s, American Waterfowl: The Distinguished Collection of Dr. James M. McCleery, January 2000, lot 428, exact decoy illustrated. $15,000 - $20,000

138 Yellowlegs WILLIAM H. SOUTHARD (1874-1940) SEAFORD, NY, C. 1900

A classic South Shore Long Island shorebird decoy. Original paint worn to the wood in places, gunning wear, a couple age lines, touch-up to belly, and an older replaced bill.

PROVENANCE:

Mort Hanson Collection Private Collection, Florida $1,000 - $1,500

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139 Black-Bellied Plover CHARLES SUMNER BUNN (1865-1952) SHINNECOCK, NY OR WILLIAM “BILL” BOWMAN (1824-1906) OF BANGOR, ME AND LAWRENCE, NY, C. 1890

A Long Island shorebird decoy displaying glass eyes, raised wings, and a “R.L” rig brand on the underside. Mostly original paint, gunning wear, age lines, and a replaced bill with touch-up to face.

PROVENANCE:

Robert Lawrence Gunning Rig, Lawrence, Long Island, New York Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

Sotheby’s, Sale Catalog, New York, NY, October 1997, exact bird illustrated.

Timothy Sieger, The Decoys of Long Island, Water Mills, NY, 2010, p. 40, similar example illustrated. $6,000 - $9,000

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140 Yellowlegs JOHN HENRY VERITY (1788-1866) SEAFORD, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1850

John Henry Verity is one of the earliest documented shorebird carvers in the country and the father of Obediah (18131901). This bird displays carved eyes and Verity’s signature carved wings. In old working repaint, gunning wear, age lines, and old repairs to a couple age cracks and the bill.

PROVENANCE:

Peter Brams Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., Shorebird Decoys, Exton, PA, 1980, p. 87, plate LIX, similar bird illustrated.

Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Sporting Sale, Boston, MA, 2007, p. 105, lot 283, exact decoy illustrated.

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$2,500 - $3,500

141 Black-Bellied Plover SOUTH OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1870

This early shorebird displays dramatic form, carved eyes, a through-splined bill, and Seaford-style carved raised wings.

Original paint worn to bare wood, gunning wear, numerous shot scars, a replaced bill, old tail chips, and dings.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

LITERATURE:

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, W. Farmington, ME, April 1999, lot 104, exact decoy illustrated. $2,500 - $3,500

142 Roothead Yellowlegs LONG ISLAND, NY, C. 1870

A slightly turned-head shorebird with a “stringing” hole in the tail. Underside of the bird bears an “Adele Earnest Collection” stamp. Old paint, worn to the wood, with heavy gunning wear and the tip of the bill is missing.

PROVENANCE:

Adele Earnest Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, W. Farmington, ME, April 1993, lot 865, exact decoy illustrated. $2,000 - $3,000

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143 Long-Billed Dowitcher NEW JERSEY, C. 1890

A robin snipe with a through-splined bill and detailed brush strokes to replicate plumage.

Original paint with gunning wear and wear to the wood on lower breast.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$1,500 - $2,000

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144 Black-Bellied Plover

145 Dowitcher

146 Ruddy Turnstone

CAPT. ALBERT KETCHAM (1845-1926) (ATTR.) COPIAGUE, NY, C. 1900

BERNARD “NOAH” STERLING (1885-1954) CRISFIELD, MD, C. 1910

OTIS TOWNSEND (B. 1877) TOWNSEND INLET, NJ, C. 1910

This shorebird decoy exhibits carved eyes, a through-splined bill, raised wings with defined primaries, and stippled paint. The Ketchams were one of the founding families of Amityville. Parts of Copiague were once in Amityville and both villages were part of the township of Babylon. In 1900, Albert worked for the U.S. Lifesaving Service after previously being a fisherman. Appears to be original paint with even gunning wear and a partial bill replacement.

A “Gray-Back” or winter plumage shorebird decoy with metal wire legs.

Original paint with gunning wear.

A painted-eye shorebird with a throughsplined bill, lightly raised wings, and etched tail feather detail. Original paint with gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

John Levinson Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE:

John M. Levinson and Somers G. Headley, Shorebirds, Centreville, MD, 1991, p. 101, plate 7-3, exact decoy illustrated. $600 - $900

PROVENANCE:

David Fannon Collection Private Collection, Florida $3,000 - $4,000

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PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

LITERATURE:

Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., Shore Bird Decoys, Exton, PA, 1980, p. 64, plate 62, similar decoys illustrated. $4,000 - $5,000

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147 Ruddy Turnstone FRANCIS H. TOWNSEND (1843-1911) TOWNSENDS INLET, NJ, C. 1900

A shorebird with delicate form and an incised “T” and a “Hillman Collection” stamp on the underside. Original paint with some over-paint taken down and remnants still evident, even gunning wear, and an old working bill replacement.

PROVENANCE:

John Hillman Collection Private Collection, Florida LITERATURE: Guyette and Schmidt, Inc.,

The Hillman Collection: Rare Antique Waterfowl Decoys, W. Farmington, ME, April 1996, lot 593, exact decoy illustrated. $1,000 - $1,500

148 Ruddy Turnstone NEW JERSEY

A shorebird with a through-splined bill, a stringing hole through the tail, and initials “F.D.B” on the underside.

Original paint with gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$1,000 - $1,500

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149 Ruddy Turnstone C. 1890

A painted-eye shorebird with a label on the underside. Original paint with even gunning wear and a replaced bill.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Florida

$1,000 - $1,500

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151 Mallard Drake CHARLES H. PERDEW (1874-1963) HENRY, IL, C. 1930

A hollow Illinois River decoy in excellent Edna Perdew paint. Original paint with gunning wear. $2,000 - $3,000

152 Mallard Hen HIRAM “HY” HOTZE (1886-1977) PEORIA, IL, C. 1930

This hollow Illinois River mallard decoy displays all the aspects of the maker’s master craftsmanship, including its original rigging.

Originally collected in lieu of payment for medical services by an Illinois doctor, this decoy descended to his daughter, the spouse of Jim Fowler, noted zoologist and host of the Emmy Award-winning Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Original paint with gunning wear and chip out of underside of bill.

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PROVENANCE:

Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection LITERATURE: Stephen O’Brien and Julie Carlson,

Masterworks of the Illinois River, Boston, MA, 2005, p. 115, similar decoys illustrated.

Alan Haid, Decoys of the Mississippi Flyway, Exton, PA, 1981, p. 172, similar bird illustrated. $1,500 - $2,500

153 Mallard Drake CHARLES H. PERDEW (1874-1963) HENRY, IL, C. 1920

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Retains an original “Henry Perdew Ill.” lead strip weight. Painted by Catharine Elliston.

Possibly original paint with gunning wear and some flaking to head. $1,000 - $1,500

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“ Of his many styles, Perdew is most revered for his masterful sleepers and preening decoys. Both Robert Elliston and Charles Perdew felt that the presence of sleepers and preeners added a suggested calm to the rig that was more enticing to waterfowl. Whether this actually made any difference to the circling birds is subject to debate; however, the graceful pose inherent in these styles is desirable among collectors.”

– Stephen O’Brien, Jr., Masterworks of the Illinois River

154 Sleeping Mallard Hen

155 Early Mallard Drake

CHARLES H. PERDEW (1874-1963) HENRY, IL, C. 1935

CHARLES H. PERDEW (1874-1963) HENRY, IL, C. 1900

An exceptional sleeping mallard hen with Charles Perdew’s best paint. Behind the neck is a small metal tube.

A very early and important hollow decoy showing Perdew’s three-piece body construction. The decoy’s crowned head and pronounced cheek carving show the influence of pioneer Illinois River carver Henry W. Ruggles (1830-1897). The paint by Edna Perdew (1882-1974) is subtly blended, revealing her abilities at a young age. Original paint with light gunning wear, touch-up to a hairline neck crack, and minor touch-up along edges of lead weight.

This decoy has all the traits one looks for in a premier Illinois River decoy, including elegant form, superb paint, fine craftsmanship, and excellent history having been gunned over by a founding member and past president of Ducks Unlimited, Louis H. Barkhausen.

In Perdew: An Illinois River Tradition, author Ann Tandy Lacy discusses this rig: “Further down the river, south of Peoria near Beardstown, one of Illinois’ most highly respected conservationists also hunted over a rig of Perdew decoys. This hunter, Louis H. Barkhausen, was a co-founder in 1937 of Ducks Unlimited, an international organization for the preservation and reclamation of wetlands and waterfowl breeding grounds… Located on the back of each decoy, at the base of the neck, was a small metal tube that had been inserted to leave an opening from the hollow cavity in the body of the decoy to the outside air. This opening appears to be a breathing hole, the theory being that it would allow the decoy to ‘breathe’ and dry evenly on the inside and out. Supposedly this would decrease the chances of its cracking or splitting along the seams where the wood is joined. This breathing hole appears to be unique to the Barkhausen rig of Perdew decoys…” In original paint with very light gunning wear, two very small old drops of paint on the left side, and right side of bill is reset.

Ann Tandy Lacy, Perdew: An Illinois River Tradition, Muncie, IN, 1993, p. 118, similar decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$25,000 - $35,000

PROVENANCE:

Louis H. Barkhausen rig Private Collection Stephen B. O’Brien, Jr. and Julie Carlson, Masterworks of the Illinois River, Boston, MA, 2005, p. 81, rigmate illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Preening Mallard Hen from the Barkhausen Rig, illustrated in O’Brien’s Masterworks of the Illinois River. This decoy, looking over her right shoulder, is a nearly identical rigmate to lot 154, which reaches back over her left shoulder.

Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, American Vernacular, Boston, MA, 2002, p. 31, similar decoy illustrated.

Ann Tandy Lacy, Perdew: An Illinois Tradition, Muncie, IN, 1993, pp. 96-97. $80,000 - $120,000

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156 Mallard Drake MICHAEL VALERO (1906-1992) SPRING VALLEY, IL, C. 1930

One of the finest Valero decoys to have surfaced, this decoy displays Edna Perdew’s (1882-1974) best combed-paint detail and original rigging. Valero loved carving decoys, but paid some of the Illinois River’s finest decoy artists to paint his birds. In this sale we have three Valero mallard drakes, each by a different painter including Edna Perdew, Henry Holmes, and Jack Franks.

Original paint with even gunning wear and hairline cracks to bill and neck.

PROVENANCE:

Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection LITERATURE:

Stephen O’Brien and Julie Carlson, Masterworks of the Illinois River, Boston, MA, 2005, p. 135, decoys with Perdew paint illustrated.

PROVENANCE:

Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection $1,000 - $2,000

159 Mallard Hen HECTOR “HECK” WHITTINGTON (1907-1981) OGLESBY, IL, C. 1940

An early decoy by the maker and a rigmate to lot 160. Original paint with minor flaking and gunning wear.

Donna Tonelli, Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 185, rigmates illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$1,000 - $2,000

160 Mallard Drake HECTOR “HECK” WHITTINGTON (1907-1981) OGLESBY, IL, C. 1940

Paul W. Parmalee and Forrest D. Loomis, Decoys and Decoy Carvers of Illinois, DeKalb, IL, 1969, p. 247.

An early hollow decoy with extensive comb-painting and a rigmate to lot 159.

Original paint with flaking, gunning wear, and a tight neck crack.

$2,000 - $3,000

LITERATURE:

157 Mallard Drake MICHAEL VALERO (1906-1992) SPRING VALLEY, IL, C. 1930

WILLIAM T. “BILLY” SHAW (1849-1927) LACON, IL, C. 1920

A hollow Illinois River decoy with glass eyes, the maker’s signature carved bill detail, defined wing tips, and a small “H & R” brand on the underside. Original paint with gunning wear and a hairline neck crack. $600 - $900

162 Pintail Pair BERT GRAVES (1880-1956) PEORIA, IL, C. 1930

A hollow rigmate pair of Illinois River decoys displaying glass eyes, incised bill detail, and detailed paint by Catherine Elliston (1849-1953). Branded “J.L.S.” on the underside of each with an original Graves raised-letter strip lead weight.

Original paint with gunning wear and a minor professional repair to right side edge of hen’s bill.

Donna Tonelli, Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 185, rigmates illustrated.

Stephen O’Brien, Jr. and Julie Carlson, Masterworks of the Illinois River, Boston, MA, 2005, p. 103, similar decoys illustrated.

$1,000 - $2,000

$5,000 - $7,000

A hollow Illinois River decoy with combpainted wing feather detail by Henry Holmes (1870-1940) of Bureau, Illinois, and a strip weight on the bottom. Original Henry Holmes paint with gunning wear, a tight neck crack, and a bill chip.

PROVENANCE:

Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection LITERATURE:

Paul W. Parmalee and Forrest D. Loomis, Decoys and Decoy Carvers of Illinois, DeKalb, IL, 1969, p. 247. $600 - $900

158 Mallard Pair MICHAEL VALERO (1906-1992) SPRING VALLEY, IL, C. 1930

A pair of Illinois River decoys carved by Valero and painted by John “Jack” Franks (1891-1972) with their original rigging.

Second coat of paint by Jack Franks, both with even gunning wear and tight neck cracks.

161 Mallard Drake

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163 Mallard Pair GEORGE A. KESSLER (1868-1955) PEKIN, IL, C. 1940

Two hollow decoys with tack eyes, carved bill detail, and original lead strip weights. Both are fine examples of the maker’s work and are rig stamped “E C B” on the underside. Original paint with gunning wear. The drake has a neck crack, a tail chip, and cracks.

Donna Tonelli, Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 175, similar decoys illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000 163

164 Mallard Pair JOHN “NEWT “ RULE (1870-1949) BEARDSTOWN, IL, C. 1930

The maker of this decoy also guided and owned a hunting club and a shooting gallery. Original paint with light gunning wear, the drake has a tight neck crack.

LITERATURE:

Paul W. Parmalee and Forrest D. Loomis, Decoys and Decoy Carvers of Illinois, DeKalb, IL, 1969, p. 431, plate 380, similar decoys illustrated. $1,500 - $2,500

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165 Oversized Mallard Pair GLEN WANKEL (1923-1991) LINCOLN, IL, C. 1940 22 1⁄2 in. long

Two hollow, goose-sized Illinois River decoys.

Original paint with light gunning wear and removed keels.

Donna Tonelli, Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 182, rigmates illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

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166 Blue-Winged Teal Hen ROBERT ELLISTON (1847-1925) BUREAU, IL, C. 1890

Branded “Trego” on the underside. Charles Trego was a prominent member of the Nee-Pee-Nauk Club and a grain broker from Chicago. The Nee-Pee-Nauk clubhouse sat at the head of Lake Puckaway in Montello, Wisconsin. This duck hunting club was first organized in 1882 by A.H. Sellers, President of Chicago Guaranty Trust Company. Original paint with second coat of blue, gunning wear, age line in neck, and a replaced bill. $3,000 - $5,000

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167 Pintail Drake

169 Mallard Hen

GEORGE “SKIPPY” BARTO (1880-1957) JOLIET, IL, C. 1940

ILLINOIS RIVER, IL, C. 1920

A superb hollow decoy with tack eyes, carved bill detail, and a tapered tail. Original paint with light gunning wear, a neck crack, and a hairline crack in bill.

A hollow decoy displaying the maker’s combed-paint wing detail. “Skippy” “Home Run” Barto was an avid hunter who also played semi-professional baseball for Joliet. Original paint with even wear, possible touch-up around eyes, never rigged.

$600 - $900

$800 - $1,200

170 Two Decoys GEORGE SIBLEY (1861-1938) WHITEHALL, MI C. 1890

168 Mallard Drake ROY HANCOCK (1888-1964) BATH, IL, C. 1940

A hollow mallard drake with a loose interior weight.

A hollow Illinois River decoy with glass eyes and carved bill detail. Original paint with even gunning wear.

CHARLES PERDEW (1874-1963) HENRY, IL, C. 1910

$800 - $1,200

A hollow pintail drake with an original Perdew weight and a “FATTY” brand on the underside.

Both are in old working repaint with flaking and heavy gunning wear. The pintail has a replaced eye, a tail chip, and a tacked metal neck repair. $200 - $300

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171 Miniature Mallard Pair

173 One-Third-Size Mallard Pair

175 Miniature Mallard Pair

OTTO GARREN (1890-1968) CANTON, IL, C. 1940 5 1⁄4 in. long

HECTOR “HECK” WHITTINGTON (1907-1981) OGLESBY, IL, 1972 9 in. long

WILFRED J. BUSH (1920-1999) PEKIN, IL, C. 1950 6 in. long

Original paint with minor wear and minor flaking.

Signed and dated on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with minimal wear.

Original paint with minimal wear.

The hen has a small area of sap bleed.

$1,000 - $1,500

$600 - $900

$400 - $600

172 Miniature Mallard Pair

174 Miniature Pintail Drake

GEORGE E. REISINGER (1880-1953) PEKIN, IL, C. 1930 6 in. long

PERRY WILCOXEN (1862-1954) LIVERPOOL, IL, C. 1920 5 1⁄4 in. long

Original paint with minimal wear.

Original paint with minimal wear and a tight neck crack.

$400 - $600

$400 - $600

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176 Canada Goose FRANK L. HIMMEL (1873-1940) PEKIN, IL, C. 1900

A folky hollow decoy with a wire-swing weight.

Appears to be original paint with even craquelure, gunning wear, body and neck seam separation, and an age crack along the bottom. $2,000 - $3,000

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177 Bluebill Pair RAY V. DAVIS PEORIA, IL, 1938

Two hollow Illinois River decoys, painted by Edna Perdew (1882-1974), with the maker’s “R V D” initial signature and date on the bottom.

Original Edna Perdew paint with even wear. $2,000 - $3,000

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178 Mallard Pair WILFRED J. BUSH (1920-1999) PEKIN, IL, C. 1940

Two hollow Illinois River decoys with lead strip weights. The hen has glass eyes. Original paint with gunning wear, hen has a tight neck crack. $800 - $1,200

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179 Mallard Pair

Original paint with even gunning wear.

mergansers on a bench in his workshop on the cover.

This news magazine cover is illustrated in Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes. Original paint with minor wear, the drake has an age line in the neck.

$1,000 - $1,500

LITERATURE:

ROY HANCOCK (1888-1964) BATH, IL, C. 1930

Donna Tonelli, Fish and Fowl Decoys of the Great Lakes, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 175, related examples illustrated.

180 Blue-Winged Teal Drake

$1,000 - $2,000

PAUL LIPKE WHITING, IN, C. 1930

The decoy displays glass eyes and detailed bill carving.

Original paint with even gunning wear and a crack in neck. $900 - $1,200

182 Shoveler Pair VIRGIL E. LASHBROOK (1913-2003) PEKIN, IL, 1992

A pair of hollow decoys, signed and dated on the bottom by the maker. Original paint with light wear.

181 Merganser Pair

$600 - $900

CHARLES SCHOENHEIDER, JR. (1921-2003) PEORIA, IL, C. 1960

The October 29, 1966, “Weekender” edition of the Peoria Journal Star Newspaper illustrated a pair of Schoenheider’s

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WALTER PELZER 1911-1998 | MILWAUKEE, WI

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183 Wigeon Hen WALTER PELZER (1911-1998) MILWAUKEE, WI, C. 1935

Pelzer was a long time employee of the Milwaukee Public Museum and specialized in collecting big game specimens from around the world. He is said to have only made decoys for his own use and reported making just four widgeon for his rig.

Original paint with even gunning wear and a chip out of right side of tail.

LITERATURE:

T. Thompson Bosworth, “Museum Style Master: Walter Pelzer,” Decoy Magazine, Nov/Dec 2001, pp. 12-15, exact decoy illustrated. $4,000 - $6,000

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186 Redhead Hen

WISCONSIN, C. 1930

CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH (1861-1938) ALGONAC, MI, C. 1910

A solid-bodied decoy with tack eyes and initials “EW” incised in the bottom. Original paint with wear and a crack along the bottom. $300 - $500

A hollow St. Clair Flats decoy with glass eyes, bill detail, and a “Chipley” rig brand. In old in-use repaint with gunning wear. $300 - $500

185 Blue-Winged Teal Drake

187 Scaup Drake and Goldeneye Drake

C. 1930

MILES D. PIRNIE (1898-1976) EAST LANSING, MI, C. 1930

Original paint with gunning wear and an age crack along the bottom.

One is signed “MDP” with incised letters by the maker; the other is branded “Pirnie.” As found.

$400 - $600

$300 - $500

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CHARLES PICE 1890-1958 | ASTORIA, OR

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188 High-Head Mallard Pair CHARLES PICE (1890-1958) ASTORIA, OR, C. 1930

An exemplary rigmate pair of hollow mallards with uplifted heads.

Original paint with light wear and an age line in hen’s breast. $3,000 - $5,000

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189 Swimming Brant

191 Black Duck

CHRIS T. SPRAGUE (1887-1983) BEACH HAVEN, NJ, C. 1920

GEORGE A. HARVEY (1875-1945) RUMSON, NJ, C. 1900

A hollow decoy with “D.S.C.” stamped in the bottom.

Original paint with light gunning wear and a hairline neck crack.

A hollow decoy with black glass eyes, subtle bill carving, and an original weight. Original paint with gunning wear, a reset neck crack, and a chip to underside of bill with touch-up.

PROVENANCE:

Dave Campbell Collection Private Collection

$600 - $900

$600 - $900

192 Brant CHRIS T. SPRAGUE (1887-1983) BEACH HAVEN, NJ, C. 1940

190 Mallard Pair GEORGE RUNYON (1873-1922) BORDENTOWN, NJ, C. 1910

A pair of folky decoys with black shoe button eyes, carved bills, and rocked back heads. In old working re-paint with craquelure, flaking, and gunning wear. $2,000 - $3,000

Richard H. Moeller donated this decoy along with the rest of his decoy collection to the Shelburne Museum in 1958. A “Shelburne Museum Collection” ink stamp and inventory code are on the bottom. In the 1980s several birds were deaccessioned by the museum and sold at Bourne Auctions. In working repaint with light gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Richard H. Moeller Collection Shelburne Museum Collection Private Collection $300 - $500

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LLOYD PARKER 1858-1921 | PARKERTOWN, NJ

193 Brant LLOYD PARKER (1858-1921) PARKERTOWN, NJ, C. 1900

One of the finest Lloyd Parker brant decoys known to exist. A hollow swimming decoy with carved bill detail, an ice groove between the wings, and an inletted weight. Original paint with minimal gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Tom Eshenbaugh Collection William Butler Collection Private Collection James R. Doherty, Classic New Jersey Decoys, Louisville, KY, 2011, p. 127, rigmate illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $6,000

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NATHAN ROWLEY HORNER 1882-1942 | WEST CREEK, NJ

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194 Black Duck NATHAN ROWLEY HORNER (1882-1942) WEST CREEK, NJ, C. 1920

A classic, hollow, New Jersey black duck displaying flocked paint.

Original paint with minimal gunning wear and a pinhead-size bill chip.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Georgia

James R. Doherty, Classic New Jersey Decoys, Louisville, KY, 2011, p. 107, related example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $6,000

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195 Turned-Head Canada Goose MASSACHUSETTS, C. 1890

Less than a dozen T. Gray rig decoys are known to have surfaced in any condition, of these a number are in repainted or heavily distressed condition, and this is the only preener in original paint.

This exact decoy has been published on the cover of no less than three volumes, including two appearances on Decoy Magazine, including a “Year in Review,” and one on the North American Decoys At Auction catalog from July 25 & 26, 2002. This decoy realized the second highest price for a decoy at auction in 2002, setting the world record for any Gray rig decoy. Additionally three rigmates are published in David Tieger’s monumental Spiritually Moving.

regional stylistic norms, conceptual precedents and various decoy collector experiences, Massachusetts is the most logical location of inception.”

With its rare pose, excellent condition, and strong provenance, this decoy ranks among the top of this “great rig.” Original paint with even gunning wear and darkening around nail holes.

PROVENANCE:

Decoy scholars Gene and Linda Kangas published an in depth article on the T. Gray rig in Decoy Magazine. They note that “Although no maker’s name was available, the intriguing sculptural attributes of the decoys were readily apparent.” The authors go on to compare the works to the famous Osgood rig held at the Shelburne Museum, the notch-neck geese, and Elmer Crowell’s Harry V. Long geese. They go on to say that it is “...the vigorous sculptural vocabulary evident from decoy to decoy that elevates them to the relatively rare status of ‘great rig’… Collectively they comprise the illusion of energetic activity.”

The authors conclude that “the particulars of T. Gray and his rig of migrant Canada geese, for now, remain an enigma… Based upon

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T. Gray Rig Gordon and Virginia Hayes Collection, purchased in 1959, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Private Collection LITERATURE:

Gene and Linda Kangas, “T. Gray’s Migrant Goose Decoys,” Decoy Magazine, Lewes, DE, July/August 2011, front cover, pp. 24-29, exact decoy illustrated.

Jackson Parker, “The Year in Review: The Decoy at Auction 2002,” Decoy Magazine, Lewes, DE, 2002, front cover, p. 9, exact decoy illustrated.

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., North American Decoys at Auction, W. Farmington, ME, July, 2002, front cover, lot 138, exact decoy illustrated. $20,000 - $40,000

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CLARK MADARA 1883-1953 | PITMAN, NJ

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196 Black Duck NATHAN ROWLEY HORNER (1882-1942) WEST CREEK, NJ, C. 1910

An early, rare, hollow plump model decoy with an oversize body. According to Cape May carver and historian Jamie Hand, early collectors Jack Conover and Dick Morton collected decoys from this rig. The circumference of the body is over twenty-two inches. Original paint with traces of working touch-up and gunning wear.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove

Collection Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., New Jersey Decoys, Exton, PA, 1983, p.51, plate 61, related decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

Richard A. Bourne Co. Inc., American Bird Decoys From the Collection of the late William J. Mackey, Jr., Boston, MA, July 1973, lot 554, related decoy illustrated.

PROVENANCE:

William J. Mackey, Jr. Collection Private Collection, Georgia $2,000 - $4,000

$6,000 - $9,000

198 Pintail Drake 197 Broadbill Drake HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1900

A hollow, painted-eye decoy with carved bill detail and the classic form of New Jersey’s most prominent carver.

An inletted weight and a “Mackey Collection” ink stamp are on the bottom.

Original paint with even gunning wear and a tight neck crack.

CLARK MADARA (1883-1953) PITMAN, NJ, C. 1920

A hollow decoy exhibiting painted tack eyes, carved bill detail, exceptional form, and the maker’s best painted vermiculated feathering. Original paint with even gunning wear and a tight neck crack.

James R. Doherty, Classic New Jersey Decoys, Louisville, KY, 2011, p. 162, plate 339, related example illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$6,000 - $9,000

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LEVI RHODES TRUEX 1860-1934 | ATLANTIC CITY, NJ

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199 Merganser Drake LEVI RHODES TRUEX (1860-1934) ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, C. 1910

A superb example of the maker’s work with a pronounced crest and crisp lines.

Original paint with light gunning wear and a professionally restored bill.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., New Jersey Decoys, Exton, PA, 1983, p. 131, plate 61, similar decoy illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$5,000 - $7,000

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200 Green-Winged Teal

202 Canada Goose

C. RIDGWAY MARTER (1893-1977) BURLINGTON, NJ, C. 1950

CLARK MADARA (1883-1953) PITMAN, NJ, C. 1910

A hollow Delaware River decoy exhibiting raised primaries with incised definition and carved tail feather and bill detail. A maker’s metal engraved tag on the bottom reads “C.R. Marter, Burlington, N.J.” Marter was an early 1920s auto mechanic who ran Marter’s Garage on Beverly Road in Burlington and carved decoys. Original paint with minimal wear.

A hollow decoy with tack eyes, carved bill detail, the maker’s signature raised tail feather, and original rigging.

In old working repaint with flaking, gunning wear, and restoration.

PROVENANCE:

203 Canvasback Pair

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

WILLIAM CRANMER (1917-2008) BEACH HAVEN, NJ, C. 1960

$800 - $1,200

This turned-head pair is representative of the maker’s best efforts. Original paint with light gunning wear, some overspray droplets, a couple dings, and bottom board separation on one side of the hen.

201 Blue-Winged Teal C. RIDGWAY MARTER (1893-1977) BURLINGTON, NJ, C. 1950

A hollow Delaware River decoy exhibiting raised primaries with incised definition and carved tail feather and bill detail.

A maker’s metal engraved tag on the bottom reads “C.R. Marter, Burlington, N.J.” Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

$1,200 - $1,800

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

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PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove Collection

$600 - $900

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204 Goldeneye Drake

209 Black Duck

HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1890

ROBERT “TURK” LIBENSPERGER (1932-2012) LEVITTOWN, PA, C. 1950

In working repaint with gunning wear.

A slightly turned-head Delaware River decoy with raised wing tips. Original paint with light gunning wear, bill chip, and keel removed.

$300 - $500

205 Goldeneye Drake HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1900

A hollow decoy with painted eyes, carved bill detail, and an inletted weight in the bottom. In old working repaint with gunning wear. $400 - $600

206 Swimming Canada Goose HARRY V. SHOURDS (1861-1920) TUCKERTON, NJ, C. 1910

210 Goldeneye Hen NEW YORK, C. 1920

A goldeneye hen with highly refined carving, including sharp chines along the sides, fluting under the tail, shoulder carving, and a pinched breast. The underside features a custom-fit swing weight that folds neatly into an inlay in the

$600 - $900

207 Canada Goose WILLIAM H. CRANMER (1917-2008) BEACH HAVEN, NJ, C. 1950

PROVENANCE:

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Richard and Lynn Gove

Collection $400 - $600

208 Pintail Drake TONY BIANCO (1915-1968) BORDENTOWN, NJ, C. 1940

A balsa-bodied, low-head decoy with glass eyes and raised primary feathers.

Original paint with even gunning wear, a few dents, and a chip to tail tip.

PROVENANCE:

Richard and Lynn Gove

Collection $400 - $600

PROVENANCE:

John Delph Collection

Private Collection $3,000 - $5,000

$200 - $300

A hollow decoy with painted eyes, an inletted weight, and an incised “A” on the bottom. In working repaint with gunning wear, a deep ding on one side, and an in-use repaired neck crack.

A goose decoy with glass eyes, a slightly turned head, a laminated body, and a “W H Cranmer” brand on the bottom. Original paint with light gunning wear, touch-up at neck seam, and restoration to bill.

body. The head features pronounced cheek carving and some of the most refined bill carving we have seen on any decoy.

Original paint with light gunning wear.

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WILLIAM SCHALDACH 1896-1982

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339 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Brook Trout signed “Wm J. Schaldach” lower right watercolor, 13 by 16 in.

William Joseph Schaldach was born in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1896.

From a young age, he showed great interest in hunting and fishing.

Schaldach moved to Michigan with his family in 1908. As a teenager he spent much of his time writing, drawing and exploring the countryside. An ambitious young man, Schaldach published an article of his own illustrations at the age of nineteen. After high school and a stint in the Navy, William Schaldach attended the Art Student’s League in New York. He studied the techniques of painting, drypoint, and etching with revered professors John Sloan, George Bridgman, and Harry Wickey. Many of Schaldach’s paintings and etchings reflect his background as a sportsman. His favorite subjects were wildfowl, anglers with fly rods in rivers, streams and lakes, and game fish in the water. Schaldach was employed by the magazine Forest and Stream as a managing editor until the late 1930s.

He returned to the magazine, then renamed Field and Stream, after World War II. In addition to writing many magazine articles about

sporting art, Schaldach wrote and illustrated a number of books, including Fish by Schaldach, Currents and Eddies, Coverts and Casts, Upland Gunning, and Path to Enchantment: An Artist in the Sonora Desert, a book about his own paintings of the Sonora Desert that he had completed between 1948 and 1956. He was also the author of a biography of the well-known wildlife artist, Carl Rungius.

Schaldach was a member of the Society of American Etchers, the Independent Society of Printmakers, and the Salmagundi Club of New York. His work has been exhibited at the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Artists for Victory at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society in New York, and in numerous other galleries and museums throughout the country.

PROVENANCE:

Acquired from the artist by the father of the consignor

$1,500 - $2,500

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340 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Flushing Pheasant signed “W.J. Schaldach” lower right watercolor, 14 by 11 in.

Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY label on back

$500 - $700

341 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Leaping Brown Trout signed “Wm J. Schaldach” lower right watercolor, 12 1⁄2 by 17 in.

There is a hand-written note affixed to the back from the artist to the original buyer that reads: “Dear Mr. Trevor: This is the painting you saw and which I reserved until hearing from you. It is one of the best fish pieces I’ve done, I think.”

PROVENANCE:

Acquired from the artist by the father of the consignor $1,500 - $2,500

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OGDEN M. PLEISSNER 1905-1983

342 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) The Gorge – Salmon Fishing signed “Pleissner” lower right watercolor, 17 by 27 1⁄2 in.

Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied figure painting and portraiture with Frank DuMond and Frederick J. Boston at the Art Students League of New York. Despite growing up in the city, Pleissner was attracted to the outdoors and as a teen he visited dude ranches in Wyoming, where he sketched from life. In later years, Pleissner and his first wife Mary were regular guests at the C-M Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming.

Pleissner wanted to be classified as a landscape painter first, who also loved to hunt and fish. During World War II, Pleissner painted for the United States Air Force and Life magazine. During his years in the service, he primarily completed watercolors as the portability and immediacy of that medium accommodated working in the field.

Pleissner’s work is included in more than thirty public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and hangs in the offices of the Pentagon, West Point, and the Air Force Academy.

While Pleissner’s subjects range from the landscapes of Europe to salmon fishing in Quebec, his style is informed by the classical traditions. He is quoted as saying, “A fine painting is not just the subject... It is the feeling conveyed of form, bulk, space, dimensionality, and sensitivity. The mood of the picture, that is most important.”

This classic fishing scene depicts an angler hooked up to a very large Atlantic salmon on the St. Anne River. In it, the two guides hold the blue boat steady, anticipating the next move of the powerful fish.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

$30,000 - $40,000

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343 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Fading Light signed “Pleissner� lower right watercolor, 14 by 21 in.

Harlow, McDonald & Co., 667 Fifth Ave. New York, NY label affixed to back

With its focus on the guide and angler, Fading Light gives the viewer an intimate view of angling for wild Atlantic salmon during the last part of the day, the magic hour.

PROVENANCE:

The Estate of Gertrude Carter Bullock

$30,000 - $40,000

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344 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Mountain Pool, Brown Trout signed “Wm. J. Schaldach” lower right watercolor, 13 1⁄4 by 16 1⁄4 in.

$2,000 - $4,000

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AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY 1896-1969

345 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Woodcock Hunting signed “A. Lassell Ripley” lower left watercolor, 19 by 29 1⁄4 in.

Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Aiden Lassell Ripley was the son of a Boston Symphony Orchestra musician. From an early age he excelled at music, but he soon discovered a deeper interest in painting. By his mid-teens, Ripley was committed to a career in art, commuting into Boston to take classes. After returning from service in World War I, he attended the Boston Museum School where he studied with the country’s top artists, including Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1934) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951).

Ripley was awarded a Paige Traveling Fellowship to study in Europe. While abroad, he painted watercolors “en plein air” in North Africa, France, and Holland. On his return, in 1925, he was elected to the prestigious Guild of Boston Artists. His work focused on the New England countryside as well as depictions of city life and railroad commuting scenes. The Great Depression, however, limited the sales potential for these works. Following a successful one-man show in 1930 of his sporting art, Ripley decided to change tack and specialize in hunting, fishing, and outdoor scenes as subjects.

Along with his contemporary, Ogden Pleissner (1905-1983), Ripley exemplified the life of a successful sporting artist. Collectors of Ripley’s sporting art endorsed his numerous trips to the salmon rivers of New Brunswick and the quail plantations of Georgia, where the artist indulged his passion for hunting and fishing while recording material he would use in his art.

Woodcock Hunting, with its boldly painted hunters, perfectly rendered cover, and sense of motion created by the hunters, dogs, and woodcock, demonstrates Ripley at the height of his artistry. $30,000 - $50,000

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346 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Grouse in Grapes, 1917 signed and dated “A. Lassell Ripley 1917” lower right watercolor, 18 by 25 in.

Ever popular with his patrons, grouse in grapes is the subject depicted on the dust cover of the book The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley.

PROVENANCE:

Estate of Anne C. Allen

$8,000 - $10,000

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347 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Grouse in Pine Bough estate stamp lower right charcoal, 11 3⁄4 by 17 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $1,500 - $2,500

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348 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Canada Goose Shooting signed “A. Lassell Ripley ©” lower right watercolor, 17 by 29 inches

Canada Goose Shooting depicts a hunter and his companion hunched in a blind hunting over flattie stick-up decoys.

PROVENANCE:

Thomas W. Sheppard Collection

Stephen O’Brien Jr. and Julie Carlson Wildfeuer, The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley, Boston, MA, 2009, p. 140, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$8,000 - $10,000

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DAVID A. MAASS B. 1929

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349 David A. Maass (b. 1929) Grouse in Birch Grove, 1967 signed “Maass” lower right oil on board, 24 by 36 in.

An avid sportsman and ardent contributor to conservation organizations, David Maass has been actively painting game birds for more than thirty years.

In the past twenty years he has designed more than thirty conservation stamps and prints, a distinction few artists can claim.

Over the last several years, Ducks Unlimited, the National Wild Turkey Federation, and the Minnesota Wildlife Heritage Foundation have each named David Maass their Artist of the Year.

Maass’ original paintings and limited edition prints have been exhibited in galleries and shows throughout the country, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, and the annual Minnesota Wildlife Heritage Foundation Show in Minneapolis. An original Canada goose painting by David Maass is part of the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. PROVENANCE:

Purchased at Crossroads of Sport, Inc. New York, New York Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut $6,000 - $9,000

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350 David A. Maass (b. 1929) Ruffed Grouse signed “Maass” lower right oil on board, 18 by 24 in.

$4,000 - $6,000

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351 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Woodland Scene signed “David Hagerbaumer” lower left watercolor, 15 by 20 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection,

California $2,000 - $4,000

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352 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Mourning Doves, 1964 signed and dated “David Hagerbaumer 1964” lower right watercolor, 13 by 17 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Washington

John Orrelle, The Art of a Sporting Life: The Wildlife Art of David Hagerbaumer, Vol. II, La Conner, WA, 2009, frontispiece, p. 155, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$1,000 - $1,500

353 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Common Snipe signed “David Hagerbaumer” lower right watercolor, 21 1⁄4 by 24 1⁄2 in.

An early and important work by the artist revealing his sense of wonder and scale of the natural world.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Washington

David Hagerbaumer and Sam Lehman, Selected American Game Birds, Caldwell, ID, 1980, plate 4, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

John Orrelle, The Art of a Sporting Life: The Wildlife Art of David Hagerbaumer, Vol. II, La Conner, WA, 2009, p. 156, illustrated. $1,000 - $1,500

354 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) In The Willow Brakes - Woodcock, 1981 signed “David Hagerbaumer” lower right oil on canvas, 10 by 8 in. inscribed and dated “IN THE WILLOW BRAKES-WOODCOCK-’81” on back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Washington

John Orrelle, The Art of a Sporting Life: The Wildlife Art of David Hagerbaumer, Vol. II, La Conner, WA, 2009, p. 167, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$1,000 - $1,500

355 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Ceramic Bobwhite Quail, c. 1956 6 by 7 by 4 in.

A rare painted ceramic sculptural piece by this sporting artist.

Original paint with minimal wear.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Washington

$500 - $700 160

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356 Charles “Charlie” Dye (1906-1972) Country Polling Place signed “Charles Dye” lower right oil on board, 22 1⁄2 by 16 1⁄2 in.

$2,500 - $3,500

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357 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975) Flushing Pheasant, 1943 signed “Richard E. Bishop” lower right oil on board, 16 by 12 in.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne

Collection $2,000 - $3,000

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358 Everett S. Ward (1911-1994) Flushing Pheasant, 1943 signed “Everett S. Ward” lower left oil on canvas, 30 by 40 1⁄4 in.

This painting is closely associated with the Field and Stream cover piece from November, 1943, also painted by Everett Ward. Both works depict the same hunter, dog, and pheasant, at different points in the hunt.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne Collection

$4,000 - $6,000

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359 Rodger McPhail (British, b. 1953) Grouse on a Dyke, c. 1980 signed “R. McPhail” lower right watercolor, 11 by 18 1⁄2 in.

Titled Grouse on a Dyke in the 1980 Tryon & Moorland catalog, a more proper and ironic title would be Grouse on a Butt.

Exhibited: London, England, Tryon & Moorland Gallery, A Naturalist’s Year, May 18 - June 1, 1982. Exhibition catalog affixed to back.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$1,000 - $2,000

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360 Samuel W. Griggs (1827-1898) Bob White Quail, 1871 signed and dated “... W. Griggs, 1871” lower left oil on canvas, 16 1⁄2 by 11 5⁄8 in.

Samuel W. Griggs was a native Bostonian artist and founding member of the Boston Art Club. He trained as an architect before turning to art full-time, and exhibited his works throughout the city at the Boston Athenaeum and Boston Art Club, as well as at an exhibition coordinated by Albert Bierstadt in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Griggs lived at the #63 Studio Building for many years and was known for his White Mountain landscapes.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$2,000 - $3,000

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ROLAND H. CLARK 1874-1957

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361 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Winter Canvasbacks signed “Roland Clark” lower right oil on canvas, 20 by 24 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$4,000 - $6,000

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362 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Canvasback Hunting signed “Roland Clark” lower left watercolor, 12 by 19 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia $2,000 - $3,000

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363 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975) A Blue Bird Day, 1939 signed and dated “Richard E. Bishop ‘39” lower right oil on canvas, 20 by 30 in.

Abercrombie & Fitch, New York City, NY label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$3,000 - $5,000 364

364 William Henry Dethlef Koerner (1878-1938) Duck Hunters signed “W H D Koerner” lower right oil on board, 10 1⁄2 by 8 1⁄4 in. titled and numbered “Duck Hunters B-5” on back artist label “W.H. Koerner No B-5” on back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$4,000 - $6,000

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365 Chet Reneson (b. 1934) Sea Ducks, 1986 signed “Reneson” lower left watercolor, 17 3⁄4 by 28 in.

Chet Reneson graduated from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1960. Under the watchful eye of his teacher Henrik Mayer, Reneson learned the value of simplicity: meaning light, dark, and strong. For the past fifty years, Reneson’s painting has remained true to his early mentor’s teaching, encompassing many subjects including wildlife, duck hunting, upland bird shooting, big game fishing, fly-fishing, and Bahamian scenes.

Reneson’s work has graced the covers of Sporting Classics, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Sports Afield among others. He is a past member of the Connecticut Watercolor Association and the Old Lyme Art Association. He was the Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year in 1982 and the Atlantic Salmon Federation Artist of the Year in 1982 and 2001.

Reneson lives in Lyme, Connecticut, and is also a decoy carver and hunter. This painting appeared on the cover of the Winter 1986 issue of Gray’s Sporting Journal.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia, purchased from Gray’s Sporting Journal in 1986

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Gray’s Sporting Journal, Vol. 11, Winter 1986, cover, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$2,000 - $3,000

366 Chet Reneson (b. 1934) Driven Grouse Shooting signed “Reneson” lower right watercolor, 17 3⁄4 by 28 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$3,000 - $5,000

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367 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Lower Restigouche, c. 1960 signed “Pleissner” lower right watercolor, 7 by 14 1⁄8 in.

Depicting one of North America’s most famous salmon rivers, this serene watercolor shows an angler and guide involved in the delightful rhythm of casting and dropping down through a pool, awaiting the transformative pull!

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$6,000 - $9,000

368 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Study for Upper Malbaie, Grande River, 1958

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watercolor, 6 3⁄4 by 9 5⁄8 in. inscribed and dated “To Martha 1966 Pleissner” lower left inscribed on artist label on back “Merry Christmas to Martha from Ogden. This watercolor is the original study for the large painting Upper Malbaie, Grande River, from which a color reproduction was made by Frost & Reed, of Bristol, England - OMP” PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

David R. Godine, The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner, Boston, MA, 1984, pg. 108, related work illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$3,000 - $6,000

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OGDEN M. PLEISSNER 1905-1983

369 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Upland Bird Shooting signed “Pleissner” lower left watercolor, 17 3⁄4 by 28 in.

This watercolor is a classic Pleissner upland scene in every sense. The colors, composition, figures, and landscape blend perfectly matching the artist’s greatest efforts in medium and subject.

Exhibited: New York, New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, “Call of the Wild,” October 18 - November 10, 1984.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$25,000 - $35,000

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370 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Ross Lake, 1940 signed “Pleissner” lower left oil on board, 12 by 16 in.

This western fly fishing scene set upon historic Ross Lake shows the grandeur of Wyoming’s Wind River Range.

According to a letter from the previous owner, the painting was “done in the summer of 1940 while trout fishing at Ross Lake near Dubois, Wyoming, east of the Tetons. My father and his friend, Pleissner, fished together at Ross Lake while staying at the CM Ranch.”

PROVENANCE:

Miriam C. Wallis Collection Private Collection, Virginia $6,000 - $9,000

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OLIVER KEMP

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1887-1934

371 Oliver Kemp (1887-1934) Fishing, c. 1910 oil on canvas, 32 by 24 in.

Maj. Oliver Kemp was an accomplished artist and illustrator who created many covers for popular periodicals including The Century, Colliers, Scribner’s, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. He traveled regularly to experience the adventures he illustrated, and served as a major in World War I. He studied art in Europe under James McNeill Whistler and Jean Leon Gerome, and in the U.S. under William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, and Howard Pyle. Kemp worked in New York but made his home in Michigan, where he died in 1934 at the age of 48.

This dynamic fly fishing work was used by the Horton Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Connecticut, the makers of Bristol Steel Fishing Rods, to promote their popular products in a 1910 advertisement. The painting was also illustrated in a 1981 article on the artist that appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal.

It is one of Kemp’s finest known fishing scenes.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

“The Art of Oliver Kemp,” Grays Sporting Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Winter 1981, p. 44, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$10,000 - $15,000

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372 Brett J. Smith (b. 1958) Fishing by Camp

373 Eric Sloane (1905-1985) Hyde Park Bridge, VT

signed “Brett J. Smith” lower right oil on canvas, 19 by 24 in.

Ponderosa Art Gallery, MT label affixed to back

signed “Sloane” lower right oil on board, 18 by 24 in. incised in paint “Hyde Park Bridge, VT” lower left

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Thomas W. Sheppard Collection Private Collection, Virginia $5,000 - $7,000

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Private Collection, Virginia

$4,000 - $6,000

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374 Arthur Shilstone (b. 1922) Spring Run Off

375 Arthur Shilstone (b. 1922) Fly Fishing

signed “Arthur Shilstone” lower right watercolor, 16 3⁄4 by 25 in.

signed “Arthur Shilstone” lower right watercolor, 19 3⁄4 by 27 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$1,500 - $2,500

Private Collection, Virginia

$1,500 - $2,500

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FRANK W. BENSON 1862-1951

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376 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Winter Wildfowling, 1927 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 11 7⁄8 by 9 7⁄8 in.

Paff #265, edition of 150

Along with The Gunner, Old Tom, and Marsh Gunner, Winter Wildfowling is considered one of Benson’s “Big Four” hunting portraits.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$3,000 - $4,000

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377 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Casting for Salmon, 1929 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 7 3⁄4 by 10 in.

Paff #288, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$2,000 - $3,000

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378 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Morning Flight, 1918 signed “Frank W Benson.” lower left etching, 7 7⁄8 by 9 7⁄8 in.

Paff #152, edition 45 of 150 PROVENANCE: Private

Collection, Virginia

$400 - $600

379 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Sunrise, 1920 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left etching, 6 7⁄8 by 10 3⁄4 in.

Paff #180, edition of 150 Tierney Fine Art, Bozeman, MT label affixed to back R.S. Johnson International, Chicago, IL label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$800 - $1,200

380 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Flying Bufflehead, 1930 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching and drypoint, 3 by 4 in.

Paff #308, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$400 - $600

381 8875 (18XX-19XX) Nightfall (Second Plate), 1926 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left drypoint, 5 7⁄8 by 7 7⁄8 in.

Paff #262, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$400 - $600

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382 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Cloudy Dawn, 1922 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left etching, 9 7⁄8 by 11 7⁄8 in.

Paff #215, trial proof (a) edition of 12 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$400 - $600

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383 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Marsh Gunner, 1918 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 10 7⁄8 by 8 7⁄8 in. numbered “63” lower right Paff #149, edition 63 of 150

Along with The Gunner, Old Tom, and Winter Wildfowling, Marsh Gunner is considered one of Benson’s “Big Four” hunting portraits.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection,

Virginia $4,000 - $6,000

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384 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Supper, 1920 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 6 7⁄8 by 4 7⁄8 in.

Paff #182, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia.

$1,200 - $1,800

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385 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Scaling Down, 1917 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 4 by 3 in.

Paff #120, edition of 150 Tierney Fine Art, Bozeman, MT label affixed to back R.S. Johnson International, Chicago, IL label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$400 - $600

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386 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Start, 1922 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left etching, 4 7⁄8 by 3 7⁄8 in.

Paff #211, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Virginia

$1,200 - $1,600

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387 Francis Golden (1916-2008) Coyote in Colorado signed “Francis Golden” lower right watercolor on fabric, 14 1⁄2 by 23 1⁄2 in.

Francis “Frank” Golden was born in Adams, Massachusetts and began painting from an early age. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1939 and shortly thereafter was hired to paint the background for Salvador Dali’s work “The Dream of Venus” for the World’s Fair in New York. He worked steadily for many years, creating commissions for magazines such as Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and many others. Golden’s exuberant, colorful paintings appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and he was voted one of their top ten artists of all time.

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Golden was a consummate sportsman who enjoyed the outdoors, whether fishing, hunting, skiing, or racing yachts. He travelled extensively and enjoyed painting plein-air watercolors, saying “I love the medium of watercolor! It allows me to paint loose, fast and smooth without hesitation and that is what creates action and the illusion of movement.”

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Massachusetts

$800 - $1,200

388 Robert G. Hancock (20th Century) Two Foxes Playing, 1988

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signed and dated “Robert G. Hancock 1988” on back of base bronze, 5 1⁄4 by 7 1⁄2 by 3 7⁄8 in. inscribed “4/50” on back of base edition 4 of 50

$300 - $500

389 Ben France (20th Century) Bear, 1982 signed and dated “Ben France ‘82” on base bronze, 8 3⁄4 by 8 1⁄2 by 5 3⁄4 in. inscribed “51/100” on base edition 51 of 100

$300 - $500

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MICHAEL COLEMAN

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B. 1946 390 Michael Coleman (b. 1946) Resting Antelope, 1979 signed and dated “Michael Coleman 1.9.7.9” lower left gouache, 16 by 12 in.

Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

$2,000 - $3,000

391 Michael Coleman (b. 1946) Buffalo Meat, 1977 signed and dated “Michael Coleman-1.9.7.7. VIII” lower right gouache, 12 by 16 in.

Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

$2,000 - $3,000

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392 Michael Coleman (b. 1946) Crow, 1972 signed and dated “Michael Coleman 1.9.7.2” lower right gouache, 10 by 14 in.

Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY label affixed to back PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Greenwich,

Connecticut $2,000 - $3,000

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393 Ben France (20th Century) Pronghorn, 1983 signed and dated “Ben France ‘83” on base bronze, 7 by 10 1⁄2 by 4 1⁄2 in. inscribed “35/100” on base edition 35 of 100

$300 - $500

394 Brass Relief Figure of a Stag, c. 1900 overlaid initials “W” “J” and “S” center right molded brass, 26 3⁄4 by 14 in.

This decorative rectangular panel with repoussé and engraved detail is possibly the work of William J. Schaldach, who authored the 1947 book on wildlife artist Carl Runguis titled Carl Rungius: Big Game Painter. $600 - $900

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395 Glenna Goodacre (b. 1939) Victory, c. 2000 signed “G Goodacre” on side of raised foot bronze, 39 by 13 by 12 1⁄2 in. inscribed “24 of 25” on side of foot edition 24 of 25

Goodacre is a noted artist whose contemporary realist work has found acclaim. She trained at Colorado College and the Art Students League in New York before turning to bronze sculpture mid-career. Her monumental bronze depiction of Ronald Reagan stands outside the Reagan Library in California. She is known for her work at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the portrait of Sacagawea on the U.S. Mint’s dollar coin. In 2002 Goodacre received the James Earle Fraser Award at the Prix de West Exhibition held by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

$3,000 - $5,000

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HENRY BROWN BAKER

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1868-1941 396 Henry (Harry) Brown Baker (1868-1941) Bucking Bronco signed on back “H.B. Baker” gouache on board, 22 by 15 in.

Harry (given name Henry) Brown Baker was born in 1868 in Spencer, West Virginia. At age fifteen Baker travelled west and settled in Shawnee, Kansas. It was perhaps Frederic Remington’s success in peddling pictures in Kansas City to locals that inspired Harry Baker to seek firsthand material for his own art.

After marrying Maude Claire Hainer of Emporia, Kansas, in 1897, Harry Brown Baker moved with his bride to Oklahoma City where he earned a living as a travelling salesman for the McAlester Fuel Company of McAlester, located in the Choctaw region of Indian Territory. Travelling through Indian Territory that had been opened to white settlement by the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, Baker was a witness to the clash of cultures on the southern frontier and the life of cowboys and settlers. With the exception of some inspiration from Remington, it is probable that Baker was a self-taught artist. He achieved a measure of success in selling his work to eastern publishing companies as illustrations for use in the bourgeoning market for low-priced books of adventure stories about life in the west.

Harry Baker’s limited commercial success with his art perhaps motivated him to seek out serious instruction. At the time Paris was the location of art schools favored by American artists so in 1904 Harry and Maude, who was also a self-taught artist herself, took the train to New York and sailed to Europe. The formal instruction he received in Paris had an important effect on Baker’s preferred profession and, upon returning home in 1906, he became a full-time artist and illustrator of books and magazines. He continued his studies at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, founded by William Merritt Chase in 1896, where he became a protégé of Frank Alva Parsons (1866-1930). Promoted to be director of the school, Parsons hired Baker to teach life drawing. Baker and Maude moved again to Paris for the 1927-28 academic year where he taught at the New York School’s Paris ateliers. Baker continued teaching at the New York School (subsequently known as the Parsons School of Design) until his death in 1941. He was survived by his wife who passed away in 1946.

With no descendants Baker bequeathed the contents of his studio to his landlord. His paintings and paper records were eventually divided. Most of the artworks were acquired from the descendant of the landlord by their present owner and the paper records and photographic negatives were donated to the New School in New York.

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397 Henry (Harry) Brown Baker (1868-1941) Saloon watercolor and gouache, 11 3⁄4 by 17 1⁄2 in.

We are grateful to Dr. Alan McNairn, former curator of the National Gallery of Canada, for providing the above information about the artist.

“Shane Newell...purchased a single oil painting signed by Harry Brown Baker, [then,] in pursuit of information on the artist, located the descendant of Baker’s landlord and negotiated the acquisition of the entire collection of artworks from the Baker’s studio. The Newell collection numbers over 70 works by Baker consisting of life pen and ink sketches of cowboys, monochrome watercolor and ink compositional studies for illustrations, watercolor sketches, and finished large gouache and watercolor illustrations.”

PROVENANCE: Shane Newell Collection

– Dr. Alan McNairn

$1,000 - $3,000

PROVENANCE:

Shane Newell Collection

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398 Henry (Harry) Brown Baker (1868-1941) Bucking Bronco

399 Henry (Harry) Brown Baker (1868-1941) Mountain Men

ink wash with a pencil study, 20 by 13 in.

charcoal on board, 20 by 15 in.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Shane Newell Collection

$600 - $900

Shane Newell Collection

$500 - $800

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400 Henry (Harry) Brown Baker (1868-1941) Study of Cowboys and Native Americans ink and pencil drawing, 10 by 13 in.

PROVENANCE:

Shane Newell Collection

$300 - $500

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401 Allan Brooks (1869-1945) Two Watercolors

Moose signed faintly “Allan Brooks” lower left watercolor, 10 1⁄2 by 13 1⁄2 in.

Moose Hunting, 1920 signed and dated “Allan Brooks 1920” lower right watercolor, 11 by 13 3⁄4 in.

$800 - $1,200

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402 Lynn Bogue Hunt (1878-1960) Rams signed “Lynn Bogue Hunt” lower left watercolor, 6 by 8 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, California

$900 - $1,200

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403 Rodger McPhail (British, b. 1953) Scottish Red Grouse on the Moor signed “R. McPhail” lower left watercolor, 17 1⁄2 by 24 3⁄4 in.

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$1,000 - $2,000

404 George Edward Lodge (British, 1860-1954) Gyrfalcon, 1950 signed and dated “G.E. Lodge 1950” lower right watercolor, 22 1⁄2 by 14 3⁄4 in.

George Edward Lodge was an avid sportsman. Born in Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, Lodge trained at the Lincoln College of Art where he excelled in drawing and wood engraving. Over the course of his long career, Lodge exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy and produced plates for over sixty scientific books, including Lord Lilford’s Birds of Northamptonshire, alongside his contemporary Archibald Thorburn. His scientific work culminated with David Bannerman’s Birds of the British Isles, a twelve-volume work for which he created 389 plates of 426 species. Bannerman and Lodge hoped “that both text and illustrations will appeal to the increasingly wide public who find relaxation in art and in the scientific study of bird life.”

Lodge painted the final plates for this book in 1952, when he was ninety-two years old. The artist traveled extensively for sport and birding, and had a strong interest in falconry as well as taxidermy. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and an active member of the British Ornithologists’ Union, serving as Vice-President in 1945. $1,500 - $2,500

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405 Lynn Bogue Hunt (1878-1960) The Gleaners, 1950 signed and dated “Lynn Bogue Hunt 1950” lower left oil on canvas, 22 by 24 in.

Grand Central Art Galleries, NY label affixed to back correspondence between the artist and the original owner accompanies this work

Lynn Bogue Hunt was born in rural Honeoye Falls, New York, into a family that ran a small sawmill operation. He grew up with modest means, but spent hours outside exploring the natural surroundings in the woods near his home. He often collected birds and practiced taxidermy, a hobby that led to his accurate portrayal of his wildlife subjects.

Hunt contributed illustrations to his own articles, as well as cover illustrations to magazines such as Field & Stream, Sports Afield, and Free Press. In his lifetime he painted for private collectors and companies, such as DuPont, illustrated over forty books, and produced roughly two hundred and fifty magazine covers. Though he spent much of his life in New York City, far from nature, Hunt had a strong foundation as a knowledgeable outdoorsman, bird hunter, and fisherman, enabling him to accurately capture the essence of the outdoors.

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PROVENANCE:

James B. Cerreta Collection

$5,000 - $7,000

406 William J. Koelpin (1938-1996) Pheasant & Bobcat, 1992 signed and dated “Wm. J. Koelpin ‘ 92” on side of base bronze, 8 by 10 by 24 in. inscribed “1 of 24” on side of base edition #1 of 24

$3,000 - $5,000

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407 William J. Koelpin (1938-1996) Winnebago Sleigh Ride, 1993 bronze, 13 by 23 1⁄2 by 8 1⁄2 in. inscribed “1 of 32” on lower front side edition #1 of 32

and being named “One of America’s Premier Artists” by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.

William Koelpin was an avid hunter and fisherman from Wisconsin. He went on to become a celebrated sporting artist who excelled in a number of mediums including bronze, paint, and wood. Throughout his career Koelpin displayed his passion for the outdoors in his accurate and detailed works. His first sold-out exhibit was at the Midwest Decoy Collectors’ annual show in the mid-1970s.

Winnebago Sleigh Ride along with Storm Warning are considered not only Keolpin’s top duck hunting bronzes but reside atop the list of any bronze of this subject by any maker. This is a rare opportunity to own the number one casting of this iconic bronze. $4,000 - $6,000

Koelpin enjoyed many honors in his time, including the “Best in World” award from the Ward Museum in Salisbury, Maryland,

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408 Lynn Bogue Hunt (1878-1960) Mallards signed “Lynn Bogue Hunt” lower right oil on board, 20 by 26 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, California

$9,000 - $12,000

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409 Harry Curieux Adamson (1916-2012) Mallards in Snow signed “Harry Curieux Adamson” lower left oil on canvas, 20 by 16 in.

Harry Adamson was one of the premier waterfowl painters of the last fifty years. Born in Seattle in 1916, he studied under Paul J. Fair who is best known for his wildlife photography. Adamson began painting after serving in World War II, selling a painting to the president of Mexico within the first decade of his career. His success continued and he was given the honor of being the first California Waterfowl Association Artist of the Year, as well as the 1979 Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year. His works have been included in shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the British Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Admired by his fellow artists, Adamson had a knack for capturing birds in their natural habitats. His thoroughly detailed landscapes are the perfect backdrop for his accurately painted waterfowl.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, California

$4,000 - $6,000

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410 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) Mallards in Flight signed “M.C. Weiler” lower right watercolor, 14 3⁄4 by 21 1⁄4 in.

$1,000 - $2,000

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411 Robert Bateman (Canadian, b. 1930) Red-Tailed Hawk Head, 1982 signed and dated “© Robert Bateman 1982” on back of crest bronze, 10 1⁄4 by 7 by 4 1⁄2 in. inscribed “89/250” on back of crest edition 89 of 250 $700 - $900

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412 Robert Bateman (Canadian, b. 1930) Merganser Duckling, 1983 signed and dated “© Robert Bateman ‘83” on side of bird bronze, 2 3⁄4 by 5 3⁄4 by 2 3⁄4 in. inscribed “89/250” on underside of bird edition 89 of 250

$700 - $900

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413 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) Woodcock

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signed “M.C. Weiler” lower center watercolor, 7 by 7 in.

The Sportsman’s Gallery, New York, NY label affixed to back

$300 - $500

414 American School (19th C.) Hanging Woodcock oil on canvas, 22 by 17 in.

$500 - $600

415 Richard LaBarre Goodwin (1840-1910) Hanging Quail Pair signed “R. LaBarre Goodwin” lower right oil on canvas, 20 by 16 in.

Born in Albany, New York, Richard LaBarre Goodwin was the son of portrait painter Edwin Weyburn Goodwin (1800-1845). Taking after his father, he painted portraits before turning to the “gibier mort” genre. Most famous for his still life paintings featuring a variety of hanging game birds, Goodwin worked in a highly realistic style along the lines of Alexander Pope, Jr. (1849-1924) and George Cope (1855-1929).

Goodwin began painting these trompe l’oeil still lifes during the 1880s, when he spent a decade traveling through rural Western New York State.

In 1890, Goodwin began his itinerant life, with a move to Washington D.C. While there he found patronage from California senators Leland Stanford (founder of Stanford University) and George Hearst (millionaire investor who founded the Hearst

publishing empire with his son William Randolph Hearst). After D.C., Goodwin went to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair and stayed for the next seven years.

In 1900 he moved West, spending the remainder of his life in California and the Pacific Northwest.

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne Collection

$4,000 - $6,000

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416 Dwight Blaney (1865-1944) Canada Geese signed “Dwight Blaney” lower left watercolor, 13 1⁄4 by 19 in.

$2,000 - $3,000

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417 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Two Watercolors each signed and dated “Roland Clark 1925” lower left each 13 by 20 1⁄2 in.

Canvasbacks, 1925 Ducks in Flight, 1925 PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Indiana

$500 - $800

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418 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) They Stood Like Two Infuriated Gamecocks signed “Roland Clark” lower right oil on canvas, 16 1⁄4 by 12 in.

This painting was created as an illustration for the artist’s classic sporting book Pot Luck. Included with this lot is a copy of the book.

Roland Clark, Pot Luck, West Hartford, VT, 1945, p. 76, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$1,500 - $2,500

419 Gerard R. Hardenbergh (1855-1915) Woodcock Plate, 1885 signed and dated “Gerard R. Hardenbergh, 1885” lower left oil on panel, 14 in. diameter $600 - $900

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420 Gerard R. Hardenbergh (1855-1915) Bobwhite Quail Plate, 1885 signed and dated “Gerard R. Hardenbergh, 1885” lower left oil on panel, 14 in. diameter

$600 - $900 420

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ARTHUR BURDETT FROST 1851-1928

421 Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) English Snipe, 1895 watercolor and gouache, 14 by 21 1⁄2 in.

A. B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, but spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Considered one of the great illustrators of the “Golden Age of American Illustration,” he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s, and Life magazines.

Frost’s illustrative work chronicles the mood and details of the daily life of farmers, hunters, and fishermen, as well as barnyards and pastoral motifs.

By 1876, he was on Harper’s staff working on many books, including Tom Sawyer, Uncle Remus, and Mr. Dooley. He also illustrated Theodore Roosevelt’s sporting book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Frost was an ardent sportsman who spent his summers and autumns fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He completed hundreds of watercolors and oils of the New Jersey seaside. Frost is best known for his hunting and shooting prints which capture the drama of sport in realistic, detailed settings. Frost lived at his estate, Moneysunk, in Convent Station, New Jersey.

This work, English Snipe, is the original watercolor reproduced by Charles Scribner’s Sons in Frost’s Shooting Pictures, a portfolio of twelve chromolithograph prints. It is considered one of the artist’s most iconic and recognized works.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Dorrance Jr. Collection Private Collection Henry W. Lanier, A.B. Frost: The American Sportsman’s Artist, New York, NY, 1933, p. 160, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

A.B. Frost, Shooting Pictures, New York, NY, 1895, illustrated.

Henry M. Reed, The A.B. Frost Book, Rutland, VT, 1967, p. 88, illustrated.

Sotheby’s, The Collection of John T Dorrance Jr: Important Impressionist, Modern, American and European Paintings, New York, October 18, 1989, lot 63, illustrated. $40,000 - $60,000

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422 William H. Machen (1832-1911) Hanging Bobwhite Quail signed “Machen” lower center oil on canvas, 20 1⁄2 by 16 1⁄2 in.

A beautifully rendered quail study with notable restoration to background.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Washington

$300 - $500

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423 George Glenn Newell (1870-1947) Cows in Sunny Pasture signed “G. Glenn Newell” lower left oil on panel, 14 by 16 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection

$500 - $800

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424 Albert Thompson (1853-1906) Cows Streamside signed “Albert Thompson” lower right oil on canvas, 16 by 22 in.

Albert Thompson was an American painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who was known for his idyllic works of the countryside. $800 - $1,200

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425 William McKendree Snyder (1848-1930) (attr.)

White River Fishing, c. 1890 oil on canvas, 26 1⁄4 by 46 in. inscribed “Wm. McKendree Snyder…,” “Owen Co. 1890s,” and “‘White River Fishing’” on label affixed to back William McKendree Snyder was born in Indiana in 1849, the son of a Methodist minister. Snyder was a drummer in the Civil War and had his first art lessons from his father, William. After the war, he studied art in Cincinnati, and between 1872 and 1875, the artist traveled east to study with well-known painters such as William Morris Hunt, George Inness, and Albert Bierstadt.

Snyder married in 1875 and returned to Madison, Indiana with his family, where he settled. Heavily influenced by the Hudson River School, he became known for his paintings of beech trees and the landscape settings of Southern Indiana. Snyder was one of the first artists to paint Brown County, and his works can be found in the collections of

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Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana and the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis.

This painting belonged to the noted author and collector John Delph, who wrote many leading texts on decoys, folk art, and hunting and fishing collectibles. It depicts a fishing scene on the White River in Owen County, Indiana with canoes and fishermen in the classic, detailed Hudson River style.

PROVENANCE:

Estate of John Delph Christie’s, New York, February 1-2, 2005, lot 757 $10,000 - $15,000

ISIDORE JULES BONHEUR FRENCH, 1827-1901

426 Isidore Jules Bonheur (French, 1827-1901) Horse and Jockey bronze, 24 1⁄8 by 29 by 9 in. inscribed “I. Bonheur” and stamped “PEYROL Edteur” on base

Isidore-Jules Bonheur was born in 1827 in Bordeaux, France, to a prominent family of artists and sculptors that included his father and first teacher, Raymond Bonheur, and his older sister, noted animalier artist Rosa Bonheur. After moving to Paris as a young man with his family, Bonheur studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and exhibited for the first time with the Paris Salon in 1848. He became renowned for his mounted equestrian models, which he exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Over the course of his career Bonheur won widespread recognition, including the Gold Medal for an equestrian bronze at the 1889 Exposition Universelle and the Legion d’Honneur in 1895. Bonheur is considered among the leading French animalier artists, along with Antoine-Louis Bayre and Pierre-

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Jules Mene, for the naturalism and realism he brought to sculpture in the nineteenth century.

Bonheur’s works are noted for their close attention to detail, with careful casting that includes the horse’s individual veins, rippling of muscles, and precise modeling of the jockey’s silks, blanket texture, and the ribbon on his hat. This stems from the artist’s close relationship with his bronze foundry since it was run by his brother-in-law, Hippolyte Peyrol. Peyrol was married to Bonheur’s sister Juliette, and the stamp “PEYROL Edteur” indicates that the highest quality and care has been taken in the casting and modeling of this work.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, California By descent in the family to the current owner $25,000 - $35,000

EDMUND H. OSTHAUS 1858-1928

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427 Edmund H. Osthaus (1858-1928) Three Setters signed “Edm. H. Osthaus” lower right watercolor, 19 by 27 in.

Edmund Henry Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1858, the son of a prosperous farmer who subsequently immigrated to Toledo, Ohio. Osthaus studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Dusseldorf from 1874 to 1882 with Andreas Muller, Peter Jansen, E. von Gebhardt, Ernst Deger, and wildlife and landscape painter Christian Kroner. In 1883, after studying painting for six years, Edmund Osthaus became an instructor at the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts. He served as the director from 1886-1893, refining his painting technique and pursuing his passions: hunting and fishing.

In 1893 Osthaus dedicated his full attention to painting, shooting, and field trials. He was a charter member of the National Field Trial Association established in Newton, North Carolina, in 1895. “Edmund Osthaus followed field trials from the fall prairie chicken trials in Canada to the important quail trials in the South in mid-winter, judging,

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sketching, and sometimes entering his dogs. He was a handsome, powerfully built man,” and his artistic talent combined with his love of dogs enabled him to capture the essence of the focused working dog while depicting them in precise anatomical detail.

“Any painter who paints for shooting men had better be a shooting man himself, for no one is more jealously critical of detail than the man who knows guns and dogs and game...

Edmund Osthaus, who trained and shot over his own setters and pointers, transformed oil paint into dog flesh quivering under the stress of a point.”

PROVENANCE:

Davison B. Hawthorne Collection

LITERATURE:

Kay and George Evans, “Dogs that Live Forever,” Field & Stream, Vol. LXXV, No. 2, June 1970, pp. 234-240. $10,000 - $15,000

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428 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Quail, 1930 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 5 7⁄8 by 4 3⁄4 in.

Paff #289, edition of 250

$1,500 - $2,000

430 Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954) Carolina Days

429 Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954) Flushed

$400 - $600

signed “Marguerite Kirmse” lower right etching, 7 1⁄4 by 11 1⁄8 in. inscribed “Flushed” lower left

$400 - $600

signed “Marguerite Kirmse” lower right etching, 7 3⁄4 by 11 1⁄2 in. inscribed “Carolina Days” lower left

431 Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954) Down Wind, 1929 signed “Marguerite Kirmse” lower right etching, 5 3⁄4 by 7 3⁄4 in. inscribed “Down Wind” lower left

$300 - $500

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432 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) The Quail Hunters, 1973 signed “Ogden M. Pleissner” in pencil lower right color print, 18 1⁄4 by 27 1⁄4 in. published and copyrighted in 1973 by the Crossroads of Sport, New York, NY edition of 425

Peter Bergh, The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner, Boston, MA, 1984, pp. 107-8, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$500 - $700

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433 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Salmon Fishing signed “Ogden M. Pleissner” in pencil lower right color print, 14 3⁄8 by 22 7⁄8 in.

Frost and Reed embossed stamp lower left

Peter Bergh, The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner, Boston, MA, 1984, p. 107, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$500 - $700

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434 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Remembrance signed “Pleissner” lower left oil on canvas, 16 by 13 in.

This World War II scene depicts two people standing before a bombed out building, mourning the loss of a loved one. “Shortly after the fighting had stopped LIFE sent artist Ogden Pleissner to Europe to paint the places where Americans had fought before time and the patient work of men had removed all the harsh reminders of battle and before memory had made monuments of the battlefields.”

In the May 13, 1946 Life Magazine Pleissner observed, “…it would have been much easier for the people to move somewhere else and start to build all over again.”

LITERATURE:

“Battlefields of Europe: A “Life” Artist Paints the War’s Memorable Places,” Life Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 19, May 13, 1946, pp. 66-72. $2,000 - $4,000

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FRANK W. BENSON 1862-1951

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435 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Hawk and Mallard, 1927 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left stone lithograph, 12 7⁄8 by 9 1⁄2 in. edition of less than 50

“Hawk and Mallard is a work unique among all of Frank Benson’s prints - intaglios as well as lithographs - for it has qualities of drama and potential violence that are not present in any of his other graphics...the print conveys suspense and apprehension and excitement - rare if not literally unique qualities in the works of Frank Benson.”

John T. Ordeman, Frank W. Benson: Etchings, Drypoints, Lithographs and Prints, Prescott, Wisconsin, 2012, pp. 475, 478, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $5,000

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436 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Three Geese, 1931 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left stone lithograph, 9 1⁄2 by 13 in. edition of less than 50

John T. Ordeman, Frank W. Benson: Etchings, Drypoints, Lithographs and Prints, Prescott, Wisconsin, 2012, pp. 475, 483, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$4,000 - $5,000

437 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Four Mallards, 1931 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left stone lithograph, 11 3⁄8 by 13 3⁄4 in. edition of less than 50

“Four Mallards serves to show the distinct differences between Mr. Benson’s lithographic style and his intaglio style, the most obvious one being the fact that he includes more in the way of trees and grasses in his lithograph than he does in typical etchings and drypoints. In addition, the work is much more ‘painterly,’ the lines being broader, the shapes being less sharply defined...the composition is typically asymmetrical, yet absolutely balanced.

The birds, furthermore, are no less alive, no less natural, no less in motion than those we find in his intaglio prints.”

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“At least thirty-six copies of “Four Mallards,” Mr. Benson’s most popular lithography, were sold. Each was signed by the artist, who apparently also served as printer of this work.”

John T. Ordeman, Frank W. Benson: Etchings, Drypoints, Lithographs and Prints, Prescott, Wisconsin, 2012, pp. 476, 480, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$3,000 - $4000

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438 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Portrait of Charles Martin Loeffler, 1919

440 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Early Gunners, 1920

442 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Alert!, 1925

signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 9 3⁄4 by 7 7⁄8 in.

Paff #156, edition of 22

signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left etching, 1 5⁄8 by 5 in.

Paff #177, edition of 150 Old Staton Brothers, Philadelphia, PA label affixed to back

signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left drypoint, 4 7⁄8 by 7 in.

Paff #242, edition of 150

$1,000 - $2,000

$900 - $1,200

439 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Rainbow Cove, 1927 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 7 5⁄8 by 9 3⁄4 in.

Paff #263, edition of 150

$300 - $500

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, New Hampshire $400 - $600

441 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Mallards at Evening, 1927 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left drypoint, 13 7⁄8 by 11 7⁄8 in.

Paff #271, edition of 155

$900 - $1,200

443 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Rising Geese, 1924 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left drypoint, 6 7⁄8 by 8 3⁄4 in.

Paff #238, edition of 150

$600 - $900

444 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Pair of Yellowlegs, 1916 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left drypoint, 3 by 4 in. numbered “22” lower right Paff #101, second published state, edition 22 of 80 Kennedy & Co., NY label affixed to back

$600 - $900

445 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Turnstones, 1928 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left drypoint, 7 7⁄8 by 11 7⁄8 in.

Paff #283, edition of 150 444

$1,200 - $1,500

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446 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Bridge, 1923 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left drypoint, 13 3⁄4 by 10 3⁄4 in.

Paff #227, edition of 150

$2,000 - $3,000

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447 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) In Island Pond, 1925 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left etching, 9 3⁄4 by 7 3⁄4 in.

Paff #252, edition of 150

$600 - $900

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448 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) On Set Wings (Frontispiece), 1923 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 4 1⁄2 by 5 7⁄8 in.

Paff #223, edition of 535

Frontispiece for Volume Three of the Paff Catalogue $300 - $500

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449 Richard Newton, Jr. (1874-1951) Fox Hunting Scene signed “Richard Newton Jr” lower right oil on canvas, 23 by 32 1⁄4 in.

$2,000 - $3,000

450 Samantha J. Morgan (1843-1926) Grebe, 1900

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signed and dated “Samantha J. Morgan, 1900” lower right oil on board, 12 by 18 1⁄2 in.

Samantha Morgan was born in Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia in 1843 and died in Winfield, Putnam County, West Virginia in 1926 at the age of 83. She studied at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, and one of her portraits of Stonewall Jackson’s daughter, Julia, c. 1870, is in the collection of the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston, West Virginia.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, North Carolina

$300 - $500

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451 Gerard R. Hardenbergh (1855-1915) Three Rail, 1892 signed and dated “Gerard R. Hardenbergh, 1892” lower left watercolor, 11 by 20 in.

Thomas Hosper Framers, NY label affixed to back

$400 - $600

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452 Duckling oil on canvas, 6 1⁄8 by 8 in. possibly the work of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905)

$1,200 - $1,800

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453 Robert Cleminson (British, 1844-1903) Two Oil Paintings Gordon and English Setters each signed “R. Cleminson” lower left each oil on canvas, 10 by 14 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Purchased at Christie’s, South Kensington, c. 2000 $1,500 - $2,500

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454 after Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) American Field Sports: Flush’d, 1857 color lithograph, 18 1⁄2 by 26 3⁄4 in. published and copyrighted in 1857 by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, New York, NY

$1,000 - $2,000

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455 American School (19th C.) Hanging Goldeneye signed and dated indistinctly “...B...Ford ‘’87” lower right oil on canvas, 22 by 18 in.

$300 - $500

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456 Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) Sora Rail, 1899 signed and dated “L A Fuertes ‘99” lower right pencil, watercolor, gouache, 9 1⁄4 by 7 in.

PROVENANCE:

Nancy Dole Collection

$1,500 - $2,500

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457 John Swan (b. 1948) Down the Kedgwick

458 Chet Reneson (b. 1934) Hunter at Sunset

signed “John Swan” lower right oil on canvas, 24 by 36 in.

signed “Reneson” lower left watercolor, 17 1⁄2 by 28 in.

The Crossroads of Sport, Inc. label affixed to back

PROVENANCE:

Thomas W. Sheppard Collection

PROVENANCE:

$4,000 - $7,000

Private Collection, Greenwich,

Connecticut $2,000 - $3,000

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459 Brett J. Smith (b. 1958) Small Covey, 1998 signed “Brett J. Smith” lower right watercolor, 21 by 29 in.

Brett J. Smith was born on March 19, 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His early introduction to sporting art came from his father who worked professionally as an illustrator and moonlighted as a fine artist contributing paintings for covers of the early outdoor and western magazines. Sportsmen nationwide collect Smith’s work because it is not only visually exciting, but also authentic and brings to bear his intimate knowledge of his sporting experience. His work has been featured in such publications as Gray’s Sporting Journal, Ducks Unlimited Magazine, Sporting Classics, Shooting Sportsman, and Double Gun Journal. He has also been recognized for his work with such organizations as Gulf Coast Conservation Association, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Ruffed Grouse Society, Ducks Unlimited, and many others. $5,000 - $7,000

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460 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) The Scout signed and inscribed “To: Ward Mould Very Sincerely - M.C. Weiler” lower right watercolor, 7 3⁄8 by 10 1⁄4 in.

This work was a gift from Weiler to his ophthalmologist.

PROVENANCE:

The artist Dr. Ward Mould Collection By descent in the family $800 - $1,200

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461 Francis Golden (1916-2008) Pheasant Hunter and Dog signed “Francis Golden” lower right watercolor, 10 1⁄2 by 13 1⁄2 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Massachusetts $800 - $1,200

462 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) Golden Trout signed “M.C. Weiler” lower left watercolor on board, 17 by 13 in.

These vibrant watercolors were made into a print run by the Garcia Corporation, a noted fishing tackle distributor based in New Jersey.

They sold high-quality imported reels and later became ABU Garcia.

PROVENANCE:

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Ryan Franklin Collection

$1,000 - $2,000

463 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) Northern Pike signed “M.C. Weiler” lower left watercolor on board, 17 1⁄8 by 13 in.

Original for Garcia Collection print.

PROVENANCE:

Ryan Franklin Collection

$1,000 - $,2000

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464 464 Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974) Striper...! signed “M.C. Weiler” lower right watercolor, 8 by 9 in. inscribed “striper...!” inscribed “Many thanks for keeping us in sight!

Milt” on back

This work was a gift from Weiler to his ophthalmologist.

PROVENANCE:

The artist Dr. Ward Mould Collection By descent in the family $800 - $1,200

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465 Francis Golden (1916-2008) Study for Surf Casting Fishermen signed “Francis Golden” lower left watercolor, 9 1⁄4 by 13 1⁄2 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Massachusetts $400 - $600

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466 Francis Golden (1916-2008) Surf Casting Fishermen signed “Francis Golden” lower right watercolor and gouache, 17 1⁄4 by 27 3⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Massachusetts $1,500 - $2,500

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467 Edgar Burke (1889-1950) Flaring Black Duck, c. 1940 signed “Edgar Burke” lower right oil on board, 10 by 8 in.

$300 - $500

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468 Edgar Burke (1889-1950) Brant, 1924 signed and dated “Edgar Burke 1924” lower right gouache on paper, 15 3⁄4 by 11 3⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Ohio

$300 - $500

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469 Edgar Burke (1889-1950) Pintail signed “Edgar Burke” lower left oil on paper, 7 3⁄4 by 10 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Ohio

$100 - $200

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470 Edgar Burke (1889-1950) Three Geese Landing signed “Edgar Burke” lower right oil on board, 23 1⁄2 by 19 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Ohio

$800 - $1,200

471 Daniel Loge (b. 1954) Drifter, 2015 signed “D. Loge” lower right oil on board, 17 by 24 in.

$900 - $1,200

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472 Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) Diving Ducks, 1993 pencil signed “R T Peterson” gouache, watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper board, 16 1⁄2 by 10 3⁄4 in. estate stamps on back PROVENANCE:

Roger Tory Peterson The Estate of Virginia Peterson By descent to the present owner Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, 5th Edition, Boston, MA, 1993, Plate #16, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$3,000 - $5,000

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473 Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) Harriers and Kites, 1993 pencil signed “R T Peterson” gouache, watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper board, 16 1⁄2 by 10 in. estate stamps on back PROVENANCE:

Roger Tory Peterson The Estate of Virginia Peterson By descent to the present owner

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LITERATURE:

Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, 5th Edition, Boston, MA, 1993, Plate #25, illustrated. $3,000 - $5,000

474 Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) Waders and Sandpipers, 1993 pencil signed “R T Peterson” gouache, watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper board, 16 by 10 1⁄2 in. estate stamps on back PROVENANCE:

Roger Tory Peterson The Estate of Virginia Peterson By descent to the present owner Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, 5th Edition, Boston, MA, 1993, Plate #45, illustrated.

LITERATURE:

$3,000 - $5,000

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475 Bill Elliott (b. 1945) Two Watercolors each signed “Bill Elliott” lower right

Tarpon Fishing 13 1⁄2 by 25 in.

Bonefish 11 by 24 1⁄2 in.

$800 - $1,200

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476 Roger Cruwys (b. 1938) Flats Fishing signed “Cruwys” lower right acrylic on board, 16 1⁄2 by 21 1⁄2 in.

$400 - $600

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477 Ralph Crosby Smith (1907-1962) Trout Fishing signed “Ralph Crosby Smith” lower right oil on canvas, 22 by 30 in.

PROVENANCE:

March in Montana, Great Falls, MT, March 14, 2008, lot 408 Private Collection, California $2,000 - $4,000

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478 William Schmedtgen (1862-1936) Two Paintings each oil on board, 17 5⁄8 by 14 1⁄2 in.

Flying Mallards signed “W. Schmedtgen” lower right

Prairie Chickens signed “W H Schmedtgen” lower left

$400 - $600

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479 Alfred Fredericks (1835-1926) Pilgrim’s Prayer, 1906 signed and dated “Alfred Fredericks, 1906” lower left watercolor, 12 by 18 in.

Fredericks illustrated books for Julian Hawthorne in the 1880s. $400 - $600

480 Four Antique Silhouettes and a Sketch One profile sketch of a young woman, charcoal on paper, 4 1⁄4 by 3 1⁄4 in. Two silhouettes measuring 4 1⁄2 by 5 1⁄4 in. and 5 by 7 1⁄2 in., each depicting a gentleman and a lady with gold-painted highlights. Two profile silhouettes, 4 1⁄2 by 3 1⁄2 in., each made of cut fabric with watercolor detail and signed and dated “I.P. 1779.” $300 - $600

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SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN T. ORDEMAN COLLECTION LOTS 481 – 510

I am a retired school master—40 years teaching English and art history, 28 of them as headmaster of several independent schools—a New Englander who is a happy “come here” to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. My principal avocation for the past 35 years has been researching and writing about American sporting artists. Among my publications are: Frank W. Benson: Master of the Sporting Print, William J. Schaldach: Artist/ Author/ Sportsman, To Keep a Tryst with the Dawn: An Appreciation of Roland Clark, George and Belmore Browne: Artists of the North American Wilderness, The Derrydale Print, The Art of Milton C. Weiler: A Sportsman’s World, The American Sporting Print and Frank W. Benson: Etchings, Drypoints, Lithographs and Prints.

For many years I spent the summer vacation months on an island in the St. Lawrence River, and one July day thirty-five years ago I happened to stop by Ernie Hickok’s table at the Clayton Decoy Show to look over his display of sporting art. Ernie’s love of the etchings and drypoints of Frank W. Benson was contagious, and having been infected, I left that day with a Benson print and with the intention of learning more about this extraordinary artist.

By the time I saw Ernie the next summer in Clayton, I had read everything that was available on Frank Benson, and, with Ernie’s support and with invaluable cooperation from members of the Benson family, I was prepared to turn my research into the monograph Frank W. Benson: Master of the Sporting Print, which we published in 1983.

John T. Ordeman is a graduate of Williams College with graduate degrees from Columbia and Johns Hopkins. He and his wife Mary live in retirement on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where he has served as president of Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore, Eastern Shore’s Own Arts Center and Virginia Eastern Shorekeeper.

The favorable reception of the Benson book encouraged Ernie and me to publish two similar monographs on sporting artists whose work we admired, William Schaldach and Roland Clark; and my interest in American sporting artists, in particular those who produced intaglio prints, broadened and deepened. I have been pleased, therefore, to be have been given commissions for books and assignments for articles during the past two decades that enabled me to continue to research and write for the purpose and pleasure of passing on what I have learned about sporting art to others who share my interests.

sportsmen and artists, however, tell us something of what we would have experienced had we been there. I can, furthermore, go to a Benson print that I’ve owned for decades and have looked at hundreds of times and get the same measure of pleasure that I did the first time I saw it.

That’s what makes me glad to own that etching. If a picture doesn’t do that for you, it’s not worth having.

I have bought pictures so that I would be able to enjoy them long term, and that I have. Now, however, as a mid-octogenarian, it’s time for me to return some—but by all means, not all—of the pictures I have enjoyed owning back to the market and to give others the opportunity to enjoy them.

We can only imagine the pleasure it would have been to share a stretch of the Beaverkill or the Neversink with Bill Schaldach or Milt Weiler or to sit companionably in a blind on Nauset Marsh or Mobjack Bay with Frank Benson or Roland Clark. The etchings and drypoints of these great

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481 Ordeman, John T. Ordeman, John T., William Schaldach: Artist, Author, Sportsman. Baltimore, MD: Schneidereith & Sons, Inc., 1988. No. 126 of 150. Signed by the author and in original slipcase. Includes two etchings by William Schaldach.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$125 - $175

on Your Cheek: More Chips from the Log of an Artist Sportsman, Rockville Centre, NY, 1972, p. 72, illustrated. $200 - $300

482 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Grouse Escaping signed with initials ink drawing, 5 1⁄2 by 8 in.

PROVENANCE: LITERATURE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

William J. Schaldach, The Wind

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$150 - $250

483 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Winter Woods two etchings framed with a copper plate each piece measures 3 by 2 3⁄8 in.

PROVENANCE:

Lippincott Company,1937. No. 973 of 1500.

In original slipcase.

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $300

485 William J. Schaldach (1896-1982) Woodcock, 1931 signed “W. J. Schaldach” in pencil lower left hand-colored lithograph, 11 1⁄2 by 8 in. published by the Derrydale Press as part of the American Game Bird series

This piece was painted by the artist.

484 Schaldach, William J. Schaldach, William J., Fish: Collected Etchings, Drawings, and Watercolors of Trout, Salmon, and other Game Fish. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. 219

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection, purchased directly from the artist in 1977 $1,000 - $1,400

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486 George Browne (1918-1958) Flying Bluebill estate stamp on back oil on canvas, 15 5⁄8 by 19 1⁄2 in.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman

Pronghorns on the Slopes 6 3⁄4 by 9 3⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman

Collection $500 - $800 489

Collection $1,000 - $2,000

487 George Browne (1918-1958) Ducks over the Harbor estate stamp lower right pencil drawing, 8 1⁄2 by 11 in.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman

489 George Browne (1918-1958) Mountain Crag estate stamp and titled on back oil on board, 11 by 9 in.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman

Collection $600 - $900

Collection $400 - $600

488 George Browne (1918-1958) Two Pencil Drawings each with estate stamp

Pronghorns with Skull signed and numbered “George Browne “39115032” lower left 8 1⁄2 by 11 in.

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492 Ordeman, John T. Ordeman, John T., The American Sporting Print: 20th Century Etchers and Drypointists. Ringwood, NJ: The Sporting Gallery, 2007, No. 25 of 150. Signed by the author and in original slipcase. Includes an original signed etching by Gordon Allen.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$50 - $100

490 George Browne (1918-1958) Woodcock and Grouse pencil drawings

Two cutout silhouettes mounted on 11 3⁄4 by 11 in. matboard.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $300

493 Gordon Allen (b. 1953) Two Etchings each signed “G. Allen” lower left

Benson & Guide 7 by 5 3⁄4 in. inscribed “For Jack Ordeman Feb 2012” lower center inscribed “state proof” lower left

Western Spring Catch 491 Gordon Allen (b. 1953) Lady June signed “G. Allen” lower right etching, 3 3⁄4 by 4 1⁄4 in. numbered “III/XC” lower left PROVENANCE:

7 7⁄8 by 6 in. inscribed “1st State” lower left PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$300 - $500

John T. Ordeman Collection

$100 - $200

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494 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Cock Pheasant, 1937

497 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) 1938 Federal Duck Stamp Design

drypoint, 11 1⁄2 by 8 1⁄2 in.

signed “Roland Clark” lower right drypoint, 7 by 11 in. inscribed and dated “Duck Stamp Design 1938” lower left The Sporting Gallery, NY label affixed to back

PROVENANCE:

Estate of the Artist John T. Ordeman Collection LITERATURE:

A. Lassell Ripley and Dana S. Lamb, Sporting Etchings, Barre, MA, 1970, pp. 78-79, illustrated.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $300

Roland C. Clark, Roland Clark’s Etchings, New York, NY, 1938, No. 69, illustrated.

495 Gilmore, Jene C.

$1,000 - $1,500

Gilmore, Jene C., Art for Conservation: The Federal Duck Stamps. Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1971. No 33 of 300. In original slipcase. Frontispiece is an original signed etching of Aiden Lassell Ripley’s 1942 federal duck stamp design. In original slipcase.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $300

496 Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling (1876-1962) 1934 Federal Duck Stamp Design signed, dated, and titled “Design for First Federal Duck Stamp -1934-J. Darling” bottom center etching, 5 3⁄4 by 8 1⁄4 in. framed with stamp PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

LITERATURE:

498 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975) 1936 Federal Duck Stamp Design signed “Richard E. Bishop” lower right drypoint, 5 by 8 in. inscribed “Federal Duck Stamp Design” lower left edition of 1485 with a Federal Duck Stamp PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600

signed “A. Lassell Ripley” lower right drypoint, 6 by 8 1⁄4 in. framed with stamp PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

LITERATURE:

A. Lassell Ripley and Dana S. Lamb, Sporting Etchings, Barre, MA, 1970, pp. 36-37, illustrated. $400 - $600

501 Les Kouba (1917-1998) 1958 and 1967 Federal Duck Stamp Design signed and titled 7 3⁄4 by 9 3⁄4 in. and 7 by 9 1⁄4 in.

Two etchings each matted with original stamp.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600

499 Joseph Day Knap (1875-1962) Mallards Landing signed “J.D.K” lower left ink drawing, 6 3⁄4 by 8 in. framed with stamp PROVENANCE:

500 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) American Widgeon, 1942 Federal Duck Stamp Design

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $400

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502 Ordeman, John T.

504

Ordeman, John T., Frank W. Benson: Master of the Sporting Print. Brooklandville, MD: John T. Ordeman, 1983. No 42 of 50. Signed by the author and the author of the introductory essay.

In original slipcase.

PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$125 - $175

503 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Flying Ducks, 1919 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 8 7⁄8 by 6 7⁄8 in.

Paff #160, edition of 235 Chicago Society of Etchers impressed seal PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600 505

504 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Log Driver, 1924 signed “Frank W. Benson” lower left drypoint, 9 7⁄8 by 11 7⁄8 in.

Paff #230, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$1,500 - $2,000

505 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Geese Drifting Down, 1929 signed “Frank W. Benson.” lower left etching, 8 7⁄8 by 14 in.

Paff #287, edition of 150 PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600

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506.2

506.1

506.3

507.1

507.2

509.1

506 Churchill Ettinger (1903-1984)

509.2

Three Etchings

This etching was used to raise funds for Presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie.

each signed “Churchill Ettinger” lower right

Cans

Pitching 8 by 12 in.

Pintails

PROVENANCE:

8 by 11 3⁄4 in.

Planning the Campaign 9

3⁄4

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John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600

John T. Ordeman Collection

$400 - $600

507 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975) Two Etchings

510.1

510.2

Brants on Padiona Bay signed and dated “David Hagerbaumer 1997” lower right pencil drawing, 9 by 12 in.

Mixed Double signed “David Hagerbaumer” lower right etching, 9 by 11 3⁄4 in. inscribed “artist proof #d 1/10 “ lower left PROVENANCE:

in.

PROVENANCE:

508

John T. Ordeman Collection

$200 - $300

508 Churchill Ettinger (1903-1984) Butterballs signed “Churchill Ettinger” lower right drypoint, 7 3⁄4 by 10 3⁄4 in. inscribed “Butterballs” lower left PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

Up and On

$100 - $200

signed and dated “Richard E. Bishop July 14, 1940” lower right 9 by 11 1⁄2 in. inscribed “For Daniel N. Kirby” lower center inscribed “To Help Wilkie Win” in matrix

509 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Two works on Paper

225

510 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) Two Pencil Drawings each signed “David Hagerbaumer” lower right each measuring 11 by 7 3⁄8 in. inscribed “The Caw of a Crow- Chapter 7” inscribed “Snowing so hard it was difficult to see them on the flesh..Chapter 9” PROVENANCE:

John T. Ordeman Collection

$100 - $200

511.1

511.2

511 Capt. James Keating Two Carved Ship Plaques each wood on plaster, 10 3⁄4 by 8 3⁄4 in. each inscribed “By James Keating 133 Hann St., Reading Mass” on back

Cotspur, c. 1910 Emerald, c. 1910 $800 - $1,200

512

512 Capt. James Keating Intrepid, c. 1910 wood mounted on plaster, 6 1⁄4 by 8 3⁄4 in. inscribed “Keating 133 Hann St. Reading, Mass” on back

$300 - $500

513

513 Reginald E. Nickerson (1915-1999) Six-Masted Schooner “Wyoming”, 1951 signed and dated “R. E. Nickerson 1951” lower right oil on canvas, 21 1⁄2 by 36 1⁄2 in.

$1,500 - $2000

226

514.2

514.3

514 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Three Etchings each signed “Roland Clark” lower right

Four Pintails Rising, 1930 4 3⁄8 by 3 3⁄8 in.

Wigeon Alighting, 1930 4 7⁄8 by 3 in.

A Mallard Trio, 1930 5 3⁄4 by 4 3⁄4 in.

$200 - $400 514.2

515

515 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Black Ducks signed “Roland Clark” lower left oil on celluloid, 4 by 3 in.

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, New York

$300 - $500

516

516 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Winter Yellowlegs signed “Roland Clark” lower right drypoint, 9 1⁄4 by 13 in.

In his book on Roland Clark, John Ordeman writes about the rarity of this Clark image: “A number of drypoints that can be authenticated as Roland Clark’s work are not included in the ‘complete list’...No date or edition size has been determined for these...

Among these are “Winter Yellowlegs - four shore birds standing with three flying.”

John T. Ordeman, To Keep a Tryst with the Dawn: An Appreciation of Roland Clark, Henderson, NC, 1989, p. 109.

LITERATURE:

$200 - $400

517 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Tranquility, 1924 signed “Roland Clark” lower right etching, 6 3⁄4 by 9 3⁄4 in. edition of 75

$200 - $300

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517

518

520

519

521

518 Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) He Hopes He’ll Hit It, 1927 signed and dated “Paul Brown ‘27” lower right crayon drawing, 9 by 12 1⁄2 in.

$500 - $700

519 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975) Out they Come! signed “Richard E. Bishop” lower right etching, 10 by 13 7⁄8 in.

$200 - $300

520 Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Inbound, 1925 signed “Roland Clark” lower right drypoint, 11 3⁄4 by 8 3⁄4 in. edition of 75

$400 - $600

521 Walter E. Bohl (1907-1990) Winter Grounds - Louisiana signed “Walter E. Bohl” lower right drypoint, 7 by 8 3⁄4 in. edition 37 of 75

$100 - $200

228

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523

522.2

524

522 Lot of Federal Duck Stamps and Prints Twenty Three Framed Federal Duck Stamps with Prints 1950, 1958 (2), 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971 (2), 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 (50th anniversary edition). Two Presentation Frames with Thirty Two Federal Duck Stamps 1944-1977 (Years 1955 and 1970 are missing) PROVENANCE:

525.1

525.2

Private Collection, Greenwich,

Connecticut 525.3

$1,000 - $2,000

523 Larry Hayden (b. 1934) Christmas for Kids Illustration signed “LARRY HAYDEN” lower right ink drawing, 9 by 9 in.

This illustration was used in the logo for the “Christmas for Kids- All Year ‘Round- Wildlife Art Auction” Kalamazoo, Michigan. $400 - $600

524 Racket (Warren) Shreve (b. 1944) Golden Eye, 1985

525 Edgar Burke (1889-1950) Studies of Heads and Feet

signed and dated “1985 Racket Shreve” lower right watercolor and gouache, 12 by 8 in. artist stamp on back

each watercolor and gouache on cardboard (2) 12 by 12 in. (2) 7 by 9 in.

PROVENANCE:

$50 - $100

$100 - $150

229

Private Collection, Ohio

525.4

VICTOR A. HARTKOPF 1909-1982

526 Victor A. Hartkopf (1909-1982)

526.2

526.1

Two Paintings

Blue-Winged Teal signed “Victor A. Hartkopf” lower right oil on board, 28 by 21 in.

Mallards Flaring signed “Victor A. Hartkopf” lower left oil on board, 23 1⁄4 by 19 1⁄4 in.

Victor A. Hartkopf was born in 1909 in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota to farming family of German descent. He served in the army during World War II and settled near Cameron, Montana by the Madison River. Hartkopf sold his paintings to visiting collectors and died in 1982.

PROVENANCE:

The artist Floyd and Marilyn Jensen Collection Private Collection, North Dakota 527

$500 - $700

527 Victor A. Hartkopf (1909-1982) Springer Spaniel with Pheasant signed “Victor A. Hartkopf” lower left oil on canvas on board, 22 by 25 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

The artist Floyd and Marilyn Jensen Collection Private Collection, North Dakota $400 - $600

528.1

528.2

528 Victor A. Hartkopf (1909-1982) Two Paintings

Grouse Glancing Back signed “Victor A. Hartkopf” lower right oil on board, 23 3⁄8 by 19 1⁄4 in.

Flying Grouse signed “Victor A. Hartkopf” lower left oil on board, 23 3⁄8 by 19 1⁄4 in.

PROVENANCE:

The artist Floyd and Marilyn Jensen Collection Private Collection, North Dakota $500 - $700

230

529

530.1

530.2

00

531

532.1

532.3

529 A.E. Pearl Rising Mallards signed “A. E. Pearl” lower left watercolor and gouache, 12 1⁄4 by 12 in.

$200 - $400

532.2

532.4

531 Berthold Tiedemann (1916-2011) Old Forester Bourbon, 1948

Grouse, 1976

signed and dated “B. Tiedemann 1948” lower right watercolor and gouache, 11 5⁄8 by 7 in.

Canada Goose

$100 - $200

530 Travis Keese (b. 1932) Two Paintings

532 Peter Hanks (b. 1951) Five Watercolors

Two Teal in Flight

each 7 by 6 3⁄4 in.

oil on canvas, 20 by 26 in.

Black Duck, 1977

Green-Winged Teal

signed and dated “Peter Hanks ‘77” lower right

$400 - $600

signed and dated “Peter Hanks ‘76” lower left signed “Peter Hanks” lower left

Mallard signed and dated “Peter Hanks ‘79” lower left

$300 - $600

each signed “T Keese” lower right

oil on canvas, 18 by 24 in.

532.5

Mallard, 1978 signed and dated “Peter Hanks ‘78” lower left

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INDEX Adamson, Harry Curieux: 409

Chadwick, Henry Keyes: 60, 61

France, Ben: 389, 393

Hotze, Hiram “Hy”: 152

Allen, Gordon: 491, 493

Clark, Charles S.: 89

Fredericks, Alfred: 479

Hudson, Ira D.: 87, 90, 91

American School: 414

Clark, Roland H.: 361, 362, 417, 418, 497, 514-517, 520

Frost, Arthur Burdett: 421

Hunt, Lynn Bogue: 402, 405, 408

Ames, Wilmer L.: 65 Baker, Henry (Harry) Brown: 396-400

Fuertes, Louis Agassiz: 456

Cleminson, Robert: 453

Garren, Otto: 171

Cobb, Jr., Nathan F.: 85, 86, 88

Geo. Petersen Factory: 237

Barber, Joel D.: 247, 248

Coleman, Michael: 390-392

Barhousen Rig, Louis, H.: 154

Collins, Martin D.: 92, 93

Barto, George “Skippy”: 167

Collins, Roy H.: 245

Bassett, Kenneth and Beverly : 280

Conklin, Hurley: 263

Golden, Francis: 387, 461, 465, 466

Cranmer, William H.: 203, 207

Goodacre, Glenna: 395

Crowell, A. Elmer: 1-22, 26-34, 52, 58, 59, 126

Goodwin, Richard LaBarre: 415

Bateman, Robert: 411, 412 Benson, Frank W.: 376-386, 428, 435-448, 503-505 Bianco, Tony: 208 Bibber, Orlando “Os”: 70

Gibian, William: 47, 122 Gilmore, Jene C.: 495

Grant, Henry: 262

Cruwys, Roger: 476

Graves, Bert: 162

Cuffee, Eugene “Chief”: 252

Gray, T. Rig : 195

Birch, Reggie: 80

Darling, Jay Norwood “Ding”: 496

Griggs, Samuel W.: 360

Birdsall, Charles: 262

Davis, Ray V.: 177

Hagerbaumer, David: 351-355, 509, 510

Bishop, Richard E.: 357, 363, 498, 507, 519

Decoys, Inc., Wildfowler: 241-244

Hancock, Robert G.: 388

Blaney, Dwight: 416

deGavre, Brig. Gen. Chester B.: 37, 39

Bohl, Walter E.: 521

Hancock, Roy: 168, 179 Hanks, Peter: 532

Dilley, John: 135

J. N. Dodge Factory: 268 Jobes, Capt. Harry: 285 Keating, Capt. James: 511, 512 Keese, Travis: 530 Kemp, Oliver: 371 Kessler, George A.: 163 Ketcham, Capt. Albert (attr.): 144 Kirby, Ken: 288, 289 Kirmse, Marguerite: 429-431 Knap, Joseph Day: 499 Knives, Winchester: 312 Koelpin, William J.: 406, 407 Koerner, William Henry Dethlef: 364 Kouba, Les: 501 LaFrance, Mitchell, Charles Numa and George Frederick, Jr.: 270, 271

Dittman, Albert J.: 43

Hardenbergh, Gerard R.: 419, 420, 451

Dye, Charles “Charlie”: 356

Harris, Ken: 221, 284

Lashbrook, Virgil E.: 182

Elliott, Bill: 475

Hart, Charles H.: 53, 55

Lawson, Oliver “Toots”: 73, 81

Elliston, Robert: 166

Hartkopf, Victor A.: 526-528

Libensperger, Robert: 209

Brooks, Allan: 401

Ettinger, Churchill: 506, 508

Harvey, George A.: 191

Brown, Paul Desmond: 518

Gardner Family: 129

Hawthorne, Davison B.: 74-78

Lincoln, Joseph W.: 23-25, 57, 127

Browne, George: 486-490

Reeves Family: 220

Hayden, Larry: 523

Bunn, Charles Sumner or William Bowman: 139

Verity Family: 251, 253

Hendrickson, J. Eugene: 263

Finney, Frank S.: 109, 117, 119

Herters Manufacturing, Inc.: 292

Folger, James Walter: 56

Himmel, Frank L.: 176

Foor, H.E.: 284

Holmes, Benjamin: 249

Foote, Jim: 302

Horner, Nathan Rowley: 194, 196

Bonheur, Isidore Jules: 426 Borrett, Mike: 118 Boyd, George: 28A, 48-51, 134 Bradley and Hubbard Manufacturing Co.: 293

Burke, Edgar: 467-470, 525 Burr, Russ E.: 41 Bush, Wilfred J.: 175, 178 Carman, Townsend Garvie: 246

Lapham, James: 35, 36

Lipham, Jr., Leonard N.: 43 Lipke, Paul: 180 Lodge, George Edward: 404 Logé, Daniel: 471 Loper, R.: 308 Maass, David A.: 349, 350 Mabry, J.: 285

232

Machen, William H.: 422 Madara, Clark: 198, 202 Marter, C. Ridgway: 200, 201 Mason Decoy Factory: 222-236, 239, 240

Peterson, Oscar: 320, 322, 323, 325 Peterson, Roger Tory: 472-474 Pice, Charles: 188 Pinkham, Capt. Merritt P.: 64

Sparre, Stan: 121

Wells, George: 294

Sprague, Chris T.: 189, 192, 262

Weyersvang, Rakel: 305

Starr, Jr., Dr. George Ross: 41

White, Robert “Bob”: 44-46

Sterling, Bernard “Noah”: 145

Whittington, Hector “Heck”: 159, 160, 173

Sterling, Lloyd Aaron: 83

Matthews, William J.: 89

Pirnie, Miles D.: 187

McGaw, Robert “Bob”: 71, 72

Pleissner, Ogden M.: 342, 343, 367-370, 432-434

Strater and Sohier: 307

Reed, James “Corb”: 79, 95

Strunk, George: 94, 123, 286

Reinbold, William H.: 38

Sutton, Sean: 286

Reisinger, George E.: 172

Swan, John: 457

Reneson, Chet: 365, 366, 458

Tait, after Arthur Fitzwilliam: 454

Ripley, Aiden Lassell: 345-348, 494, 500

Thompson, Albert: 424

Moline Pressed Steel Co.: 313 Moore, Charles: 285

Rule, John “Newt”: 164

Morgan, Joe: 43

Runyon, George: 190

Morgan, Samantha J.: 450

Schaldach, William J.: 339-341, 344, 482-485

McLoughlin, John: 264 McNair, Mark S. : 96-106 McPhail, Rodger: 359, 403 Miller, Herb: 284 Mittlesteadt, Julius E.: 211, 212

Murphy, William T.: 297 Newell, George Glenn: 423 Newton, Jr., Richard: 449 Nichols, David W.: 215, 216 Nickerson, Reginald E.: 513 Olson, Alfred: 281 Ordeman, John T.: 481, 492, 502

Stevens, George and Harvey: 238

Tiedemann, Berthold: 531 Tillett, Nelson “Avery” or Alphonso D.: 266

Schmedtgen, William: 478

Townsend, Francis H.: 147 Townsend, Otis: 146 Tremblay, Gerald P.: 67

Schmiedlin, Jim: 110-116

Truex, Levi Rhodes: 199

Schoenheider, Jr., Charles: 181 School, American: 455

Tull, Randy: 276-278, 285 Tushenske, Daniel: 250

Shaw, William T.: 161

Valero, Michael: 156-158

Shilstone, Arthur: 374, 375

Verity, John Henry: 141

Orvis, Charles F.: 303

Shourds, Harry V.: 197, 204-206, 258, 261

Verity, Obediah: 136

Osthaus, Edmund H.: 427

Shreve, Racket (Warren): 524

Vom Hoff, Edward: 304

Parker, Lloyd: 193

Sibley, George: 170

Walker, George W.: 283

Patterson, Abe (attr.): 300

Sloane, Eric: 373

Wallace, Amos G.: 63

Pearl, A.E.: 529

Smith, Brett J.: 372, 459

Wankel, Glen: 165

Peltz, Peter: 42

Smith, Christopher C.: 186

Pelzer, Walter: 183

Ward Brothers, Lemuel T. and Stephen: 84

Smith, Delbert “Del”: 287

Perdew, Charles H.: 151, 153-155, 170

Smith, Ralph Crosby: 477

Pereira, Denis: 272

Snyder, William McKendree (attr.): 425

Personius, David: 282, 282a,

Southard, William H.: 137, 138

Ward, Everett S.: 358 Ward, Lemuel T.: 82 Weiler, Milton C.: 410, 413, 460, 462-464

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Wilcoxen, Perry: 174 Wilson, Augustus Aaron: 68, 69 Wozny, Eddie: 107, 108, 279 Wyer, Capt. William J.: 132

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