guyette and deeter

Summer Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
August 8 & 9, 2023

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Featuring the Russ and Karen Goldberger collection

The Venue at Portwalk Place
Portsmouth, New Hampshire


- Guaranteed Condition Reports
- Approximately 550 Investment quality decoys & related items.
- Quality consignments accepted until June 1 or until full.

*New items listed below Goldberger collection*

FEATURING
The Russ and Karen Goldberger collection
The Lay Family collection
The George Quay collection
The George and Miriam Van Walleghem collection



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The Russ and Karen Goldberger Collection

Though we have made the decision to downsize our home, and will no longer have the room to display the collection we have built and enjoyed for decades, we will still remain active in the decoy community. Karen and I have been offering quality decoys for a long time and have built many business and personal relationships that we plan to continue.

Same business, just a new home.

- Russ Goldberger


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Extremely rare rigmate pair of red breasted mergansers by Elmer Crowell

Outstanding, fat body example, running black bellied plover by Elmer Crowell

Exceedingly rare feeding dowitcher by Obediah Verity

Outstanding pair of red breasted mergansers by Harry V. Shourds

Very rare and early rigmate pair of mergansers by George Boyd

Extremely rare swimming, double wing up and calling black ducks by Gus Wilson

Extremely rare preening, wingup black duck by Gus Wilson

Very rare, turned head black bellied plover
by Elmer Crowell

Golden plover by William Bowman

Black bellied plover by John Dilley

Very rare ruddy turnstone in
spring plumage by John Dilley

Long body, beaver tail style pintail
by the Ward Brothers

Excellent 1936 style bluebill by the Ward Brothers

Very rare long-tailed duck by Joseph Lincoln

Very rare bluebill drake by Joseph Lincoln

Canada goose by Joseph Lincoln

Brant by Joseph Lincoln

Very rare and important widgeon drake
by George Stevens

Very rare and important full-size bluewing teal by George Boyd

Bluebill by Robert Elliston

Early rigmate pair of mallards by Charles Perdew

Classic canvasback by Joseph Sieger

Canvasback by Ferdinand Bach

Pintail by Charles Walker. From the Skinner rig

Excellent Canada goose by the
Dodge Decoy Factory

Very rare rigmate pair of American mergansers by the Mason Decoy Factory. Pictured on the cover of "Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide"

Large curlew by the Mason Decoy Factory

Outstanding black duck by Charles "Shang" Wheeler

Very rare preening white-winged scoter by
Gus Wilson

Bluebill by Harry V. Shourds

Excellent Canada goose by Harry V. Shourds

Rare swimming Canada goose by George Boyd

Rare, Bishops head Canada goose
by the Ward Brothers

Oversize merganser by
Orlando Sylvester "Os" Bibber

Outstanding red breasted merganser
by George Huey

Rigmate pair of mergansers by Willie Ross

Excellent Canada goose by George Warin

Very rare flying Canada goose weathervane
by Elmer Crowell

Large mallard drake by Elmer Crowell

Exceptionally well carved dowitcher by Ira Hudson

Large curlew by Thomas Gelston

Excellent selection of miniature penguins by Charles Hart

Outstanding 7' model canoe from the Chestnut Canoe Company

Black bellied plover in summer plumage by George Boyd

Black bellied plover in winter plumage by George Boyd

Petite yellowlegs by George Boyd

Yellowlegs from Long Island, New York

Rare and excellent dowitcher in spring plumage from the Theodore Rogers rig

Bluewing teal by the Mason Decoy Factory

Rare and excellent miniature mergnaser by Willie Ross

Early miniature hooded merganser by Elmer Crowell

Early miniature pintail by Elmer Crowell

Rare and early trade sign from St. Louis, Missouri, last quarter 19th century

"R" bannerette weathervane, 19th century

"G" bannerette weathervane, 19th century

Oil on canvas hunting scene illustration cover art. Used on cover of Hunting & Fishing Magazine, August 1924.

Early, oversize flying mallard by Gus Wilson

Custom bluebird mirror by Eddie Wozny


Excellent rigmate pair of canvasbacks
by Ivar Fernlund

Extremely rare and important red throated loon from Long Island, New York

Ex-Mackey collection heron

Pair of hooded mergansers by Al Weis

Important walking stick by Henry Gudgell

Extremely rare stick up Canada goose by Charles Hart. Ex Dr. James McCleery collection.

Rare hollow carved sandpiper by a member of the Chipman family

Large horse weathervane, Rochester Iron Works

Large and impressive bass fish decoy by Hans Janner

Bass fish decoy by Hans Janner

Bluegill fish decoy by Hans Janner

Classic bluebill by Nathan Rowley Horner

Canvasback by the Ward Brothers

Carved and painted prancer carousel horse by Gustav Dentzel

Golden plover by Elmer Crowell

Sanderling by Elmer Crowell

Black bellied plover by Harry V. Shourds

Large fish decoy by a member of the Charbeneau family

One of a kind fox and raccoon party scene by Frank Finney

Mother and pups carving by Frank Finney

Preening bluebill by Jim Schmiedlin

Pair of long tail ducks by Jim Schmiedlin

1936 model black duck by the Ward Brothers

Bluebill by Lee Dudley

Greenwing teal by the Ward Brothers

Pair of bluebills by Jim Schmiedlin

Pair of canvasbacks by Jim Schmiedlin

Bluewing teal by Jim Schmiedlin

Hooded merganser by Jim Schmiedlin

Shoveler by Jim Schmiedlin

Red breasted merganser by Jim Schmiedlin

Mallard by Elmer Crowell 

Carved pine violin case

Outstaning folk art carved box.

Merganser hen by Jim Schmiedlin

Hackney horse weathervane

Horse and jockey weathervane

Large steer weathervane

Decorative ruddy duck by Joe Wooster

Bluewing teal by the Stevens Brothers

Pair of carved deer fawn

Pair of mallards by Charles Perdew

Set of six animal carvings by Fred Alten

Carved plaque by Elijah Pierce

Fall of Man series by Edgar Tolson

Fall of Man series by Edgar Tolson

Fall of Man series by Edgar Tolson

Folk art carving of George Washington

Carved cornucopia

Outstanding folky carved carousel swan

Pair of pintails by the Ward Brothers

Bass fish decoy by Hans Janner

Sucker fish decoy by Charles Kellman

Fish decoy by Charles Kellman

Bass fish decoy by James Rosin

Perch fish decoy by James Rosin

Walleye fish decoy by James Rosin

Trout fish decoy by Isaac Goulette

Large perch fish decoy by Horace "Bart" Perkins

Small red knot by Charles Clark

Curlew by Daniel Lake Leeds

Yellowlegs by Charles Clark

Canvasback by John Schweikart

Canvasback by John Schweikart

Canada goose by Charles Safford

Outstanding bufflehead hen by Orel Lebouf

Pair of goldeneyes by Sam Hutchins

Pair of pintails by Bernard Ohnmacht 

Goldeneye by Amos Wheaton

Rare snowy owl, 1st quarter
20th century

Full size rooster carving

Full size great horned owl by Philippe Sirois

Pair of stickup Canada geese from New Brunswick

Large working gull attributed to John Ramsay

Pair of bluebills by Bud Tully

Merganser hen by Achilles Hart

Pair of greenwing teal by Billy Ellis

Bluewing teal hen by Bill Cooper

Ruddy duck from Ontario

Bufflehead by Tom Schroeder

Curlew from Accomack County, Virginia

Dowitcher from Accomack County, Virginia

Dowitcher from Accomack County, Virginia

Pair of mergansers by Harold Thengs

Pair of old squaw by Harold Thengs

Folk art carving of hunters, circa 1900

Rare pair of miniature mallards by Bert Graves