April 27 & 28, 2006 St. Charles, Illinois
750+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of Alan and Elaine Haid, Jim Stewart, ted Murphy, Annie Cooper, and Tom Fuller. The action gross was just over $3.5 million. Sixty-eight items sold for over $10,000 each and four items sold for over $100,000. Top lot in the sale was a pair of mergansers, circa 1900, by Clinton Keith of Kingston, Massachusetts, which sold at mid estimate for $335,000
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Yellowlegs by Fred Nichols
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Redhead drake by Bob Jones
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Wood duck drake by Elmer Crowell
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Canvasback drake by Tom Chambers
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Pair of mergansers from Massachusetts
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Pintail drake by John R. Wells
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"Carriage House" rig mallard drake
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American merganser by Shang Wheeler
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Redhead drake by Walker Morely
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Pair of mergansers by Elmer Crowelll
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White heron by Alphonso Tillet
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Gray heron by Alphonso Tillet
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Black duck by Ira Hudson
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Pair of mergansers by Clinton Keith
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Merganser hen by Sam Toothacher
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Merganser drake by Gus Wilson
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Merganser hen by Gus Wilson
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Pair of mallards by Charles Perdew
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Widgeon hen by Orel Leboeuf
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Sanderling by Obediah Verity
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Mallard hen by Robert Elliston
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Full size blue jay by Elmer Crowell
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Mallard hen by Bert Graves
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Curlew by Obediah Verity