Annual Spring Decoy & Sporting Art Auction
April 27 & 28, 2023
The Westin Chicago Lombard
Lombard, Illinois
- Guaranteed Condition Reports - Approximately 650 Investment quality decoys & related items. - Quality consignments accepted until February 20 or until full. |
Featuring decoys and sporting art from the collections of:
George & Miriam Van Walleghem - The most important fish decoy collection ever to come to auction
Herb Desch - The finest selection of Wisconsin decoys every offered in a single sale
Jonathan & Virginia Chua
D.C. North
Jack Milne
Davis Pearson
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Golden winged warbler by Elmer Crowell |
Least tern by Elmer Crowell |
Mallard by Charles Pice |
Fresh to the market Delaware River mallards |
Pintail by the Ward Brothers |
Bufflehead by the Mason Decoy Factory |
Merganser by the Mason Decoy Factory |
Hooded merganser from eastern Ontario |
Goldeneye by Harry M. Shourds |
Turned head plover |
Greenwing teal by Charles Reeves |
Bluewing teal by Frank Strey |
Lowhead black duck by Walter Lowry |
Pair of bluewing teal by Otto Weinart |
Pair of bluewing teal by the Evans Decoy Factory |
Pair of canvasbacks by Frank Resop |
Sleeping canvasback by Tom Schroeder
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Decorative mallard by the Ward Brothers |
2/3 size pair of pintails by the Ward Brothers |
Leaping black duck by Corbin Reed |
Pair of pintails by Charles Perdew |
Unique frog and dragonfly carving by Frank Finney |
Large grasshopper carving by Frank Finney |
Pair of passenger pigeon by Harold Haertel |
Pair of band-tailed pigeon by Harold Haertel |
Full body prancing horse weathervane, circa 1900 |
Full body squirrel weathervane, circa 1900 |
Pair of pintails by Marty Hanson |
Gadwall by Cameron McIntyre |
Pair of pintails by Marty Hanson |
Greenwing teal by William Schultz |
Pair of gadwall by Marty Hanson |
Early bufflehead by Madison Mitchell |
Pair of Canada geese by Marty Hanson |
Pair of scoters by Jim Schmiedlin |
Bluewing teal by Jim Schmiedlin |
Scoter by Jim Schmiedlin |
Bluebill by Jim Schmiedlin |
Bluewing teal by Jim Schmiedlin |
Scoter by Jim Schmiedlin |
Pair of canvasbacks by Jim Schmiedlin |
Pair of mergansers by Jim Schmiedlin |
Crow on pumpkin with mice carving by William Gibian |
Pair of mallards by Judge Glenn Cameron |
Ruffed grouse by A.J. Dando |
Canvasback hen by Thomas Chambers |
Pintail by Charles Reeves |
Plover by George Boyd |
Fish plaque by John Tax |
Eskimo curlew by Alonzo Foster |
Dowitcher from the Theodore Rogers rig |
Canvasback by Thomas Chambers |
Long tail duck by Ben Schmidt |
Canvasback by Tom Schroeder |
Pair of canvasbacks by Ed "One Arm" Kelly |
Greenwing teal by the Wilber brothers |
Gadwall by Hector Whittington |
Bluebill by George Warin |
Pair of gadwall by Grayson Chesser |
Pair of gadwall by Harold Haertel |
Pair of red breasted mergansers by Cigar Daisey |
Pair of bluebills by the Ward Brothers |
Pair of canvasbacks by Scott Peters |
Hudsonian curlew by Jess Hepron |
Pair of redheads by Thomas Chambers |
Merganser hen by Oscar Bibber |
Black bellied plover by Elmer Crowell |
Pair of bluewing teal by Frank Resop |
Snow goose by Ben Schmidt |
Black duck by Nathan Cobb, Jr. |
Pair of decorative bluewing teal by the Ward Brothers |
Pair of pintails by Warren Dettman |
Pair of pintails by Walter Lowery |
Pair of canvasbacks by Gus Moak |
Pair of bluewing teal by Walter Pelzer |
Bluebill by Nathan Cobb, Jr. |
Canvasback by Ferd Homme |
Bluewing teal by William Finch |
Pair of mallards by John R. Wells |
Canvasback by John R. Wells |
Pair of pintails by Charles Schoenheider |
Goldeneye hen by John Schweikart |
Canvasback by John Schweikart |
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Canvasback hen by John Schweikart |
Hollow plover from Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
Decorative redtail hawk by Floyd Scholz |
Canada goose by Ben Schmidt |
Redhead by John R. Wells |
Duck call by James Beckhart |
Oil on canvas, Harry Curieux Adamson. 21.5" x 27.5 |
Oil on canvas, W.L. Schultz. 23.5" x 35.5" |
Oil on canvas, Knight. 15.5" x 21.5" |
Oil on canvas, A.F. Tait. |
Watercolor, Chet Reneson. 17.5" x 28" |
Watercolor, Churchill Ettinger. 14" x 20.25" |
Watercolor, Churchill Ettinger. 14" x 20.5" |
Watercolor, David Hagerbaumer. 12" x 9" |
Gouache, Richard Amundsen. 25.5" x 20" |
Watercolor, Chet Reneson. |
Watercolor, Chet Reneson. 17.5" x 28" |
Watercolor, Chet Reneson. 17.5" x 28" |
Gouache on board, David Maass. 23.5" x 29.5" |
Oil on canvas, Les Kouba. 23.5" x 35.5" |
Oil on canvas, Les Kouba. 24" x 35.5" |
Watercolor, James Sessions. 21.25" x 31" |
Watercolor, Brett Smith. 14" x 21" |
Heron by Chief Eugene Cuffee |
Willet by the Mason Decoy Factory |
Black bellied plover by Harry V. Shourds |
Robin snipe by the Mason Decoy Factory |
Robin snipe by Daniel Lake Leeds |
Black bellied plover with turned head by Shang Wheeler
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Sanderling by Harry V. Shourds |
Sanderling by Daniel Lake Leeds |
Dowitcher by the Mason Decoy Factory
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Yellowlegs by the Mason Decoy Factory |
Eider with mussel in bill by Gus Wilson |
Mallard by Charles Walker |
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9" sucker fish decoy by an unknown carver |
10.25" herring fish decoy by Isaac Goulette |
10" trout fish decoy by Horace "Bart" Perkins |
12.5" perch fish decoy by Horace "Bart" Perkins |
Red belly dace fish decoy by Isaac Goulette |
Trout fish decoy by Harry Seymour |
12.5" long trout fish decoy by Ken Bruning |
16.5" trout fish decoy by Ken Bruning |
Trout fish decoy by Ken Bruning |
6.5" trout fish decoy by Tom Schroeder |
Bass fish decoy by Any Trombley |
Walleye fish decoy by Andy Trombley |
Mallard hen by Charles Perdew |
Pair of widgeon by Walter Lowrey |
Tern plaque by Ben Schmidt |
Pair of standing wood ducks by William Gibian |
Sleeping mallard drake by Bert Graves |
Bluebill by Albert Laing |
Pintail by Robert Elliston |
Pintail by Dave "Umbrella" Watson |
Pintail hen by Dave "Umbrella" Watson |
Cocked head black duck by Gus Wilson |
Rocking head black duck by Gus Wilson |
Pintail by the Ward Brothers |