July 28 & 29, 2015 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Guyette & Deeter, Inc. Summer Decoy Auction Sizzles
Guyette & Deeter, Inc. conducted their annual summer decoy auction on July 28 & 29 at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was accompanied by a 50 table Buy, Sell, & Swap. The auction grossed $2.4 million, which was near mid estimate. There were an overwhelming number of participants, bidding from the audience, phone, absentee, and over 948 registered online. Bidding battles for key decoys erupted continually as many items sold over estimate, and in some cases multiple times over estimate. Two lots sold for over $100,000 and 45 lots sold for over $10,000.
The sale featured the collections of Sam Dyke, Tom O’Key, Harry Seitz, Jack Milne, Dr. Lloyd Griffith, Bernard M. Billick, Doug and Ellen Miller, the Vermont Folk Life Museum, Reid Newcomb, and the Arizona State University.
The top lot in the auction was an exceptional curlew by Thomas Gelston that was formerly in the decoy collection of well-known folk art collector Stewart Gregory. It sold for $258,750 to a bidder in the audience. The other lot that sold for over $100,000 was a one of a kind decorative feeding yellowlegs by Elmer Crowell that sold for $103,500. Other highlights from the sale included a large gull from Eastern Long Island, New York selling for $48,875, a feeding Canada goose by John Tax selling for $86,250, a Ward Brothers pintail selling from $69,000, and a merganser hen by Charles Osgood selling form $89,125.
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Curlew by Thomas Gelston
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Merganser hen by Charles Osgood
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Pintail by the Ward Brothers
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Gull from Long Island, New York
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Flying pintails by the Ward Brothers
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Goldeneye by Albert Laing
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Scoter by Albert Laing
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Bufflehead by Dan English
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Brant by Jim Schmiedlin
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Snow goose by the Ward Brothers
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Bufflehead hen by Shang Wheeler
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Canada goose by Rowley Horner
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Pair of bluewing teal by Charles Perdew
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Eider by Gus Wilson
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Cobb Family robin snipe
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Winchester advertisement
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Duck call by Victor Glodo
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Mallard by Ferd Homme
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Robin snipe by Robert Andrews
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Pintail hen by Elmer Crowell
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Wood duck by Elmer Crowell
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Redhead by the Mason Decoy Factory
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Black bellied plover by Eli Doughty
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Bluebill by the Ward Brothers
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Union Metallic Advertising
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Feeding yellowlegs by Elmer Crowell
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Canada goose by John Tax
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Golden plover Elmer Crowell
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Canada goose by John Tax
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Merganser by Oscar Bibber
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Old Town Canoe model
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Pair of pintails by
the Ward Brothers
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Pair of canvasbacks by the Ward Brothers
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Black duck by the Ward Brothers
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Winchester Christmas shotgun shell box
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Brant by Elmer Crowell
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Canada goose by Clarence Bailey
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Pair of mallards by the Ward Brothers
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Mallard hen by Ferd Homme
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Tern by Obediah Verity
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Black bellied plover by Harry V. Shourds
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Brant by George Asa Miller
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Greenwing teal by the Mason Decoy Factory
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Pair of widgeon by the Ward Brothers
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Goldeneye hen by the Mason Decoy Factory
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Fish plaque by Hardy
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Pair of mergansers by Ira Hudson
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Merganser by Lee Witherspoon
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Peters advertising