Lombard, Illinois – Guyette & Deeter, Inc. conducted their 37th annual spring decoy and sporting art auction on April 29 & 30 at the Westin Lombard in Lombard, Illinois.  This was the first spring sale with a live audience since the April 2019 auction and attendance was strong.

The sale featured decoys and sporting art from the collections of Jeff Munson, Preston Lowe, Herb Desch, Jonathan & Virginia Chua, Ron Gruber, Dr. Trent Spolar, Beans Wheatherly, and the family of A.T. Shearer.  Excellent and rare fish spearing decoys from the collections of Steven Michaan, Dave Fannon, and Norman & Alicia Volk received spirited bidding and duck calls from the collection of Jimmy Thompson also sold well.

After two days of auctions, gross sales totaled $3.5 million, 10% over the high estimate, with 92 lots selling for over $10,000, 29 of which brought over $25,000, and 7 over $50,000.  The top lot in the sale was an excellent black bellied plover from the Parker Whittimore rig carved by Elmer Crowell that brought $69,000.  Following closely behind the plover was a rare fish spearing decoy by Hans Janner that sold for $66,000 and a rigmate pair of 1936 Ward Brothers mallards for the same price.  The top paintings in the auction were a watercolor by Aiden Lassell Ripley at $54,000 and an oil on canvas by Percival Leonard Rosseau at $48,000.  A great mix of sporting art, duck and fish decoys, duck calls, fish plaques, powder tins, and folk art added to a very strong auction.

Guyette & Deeter’s next sale will be held July 29 & 30 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. Quality consignments are being accepted until June 1st. 

Call Jon Deeter at 440-610-1768 or Zac Cote at 207-321-8091 to consign to this sale.