guyette and deeter

Sale Featuring Decoys and Sporting Art

November 10, 2016 - Easton, Maryland

Easton, Maryland - Guyette & Deeter, Inc. conducted their annual fall decoy auction on November 10 at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton, Maryland. The sale was held in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival and was accompanied by a Buy, Sell & Swap. The auction grossed $1.8 million, with 33 lots selling for over $10,000 and two lots selling for over $100,000. The top lot in the auction was a museum quality "humpback" style pintail hen by the Ward Brothers that sold for $201,250, a world auction record for the Ward Brothers.

The sale featured the collections of John Baker, Dr. Lloyd Griffith, Joseph Hegarty, Porter and Patti Hopkins, Paul Tudor Jones II, Doug and Ellen Miller, Harold and Nancy O'Connor, Carl Olson, Gene and Dianne Orgeron, Greg Stanley, and Bruce Williams.

Guyette & Deeter's next decoy sale will be held February 18, 2017 in Charleston, South Carolina. It is held in conjunction with the Southeastern Wildlife Expo. Quality consignments for the sale will be accepted until December 22 or until full.

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"Humpback" style pintail hen, Ward Brothers
World auction record for maker


"Low head" black duck, Ward Brothers


Canvasback hen, John English


Widgeon, Lloyd Sterling


Pair of mergansers, Ira Hudson


Dowitcher, John Dilley


"Geese in the Cornfield," 19.5" x 28.5" watercolor,
A. Lassell Ripley


Canada goose, Harry V. Shourds


Curlew, Mason Decoy Factory


Dowitcher, William Bowman


Blair School pintail


Canvasback, John R. Wells


Pair of wood ducks, Jim Schmiedlin


Mallard hen, Harvey Stevens


Mallard, Ward Brothers


Robin snipe, Mason Decoy Factory


23" x 17.25" watercolor, George L. Viavant


Decorative black duck, Dennis Schroeder


"Mallard Suite," 23.5" x 36" oil on board,
David Maass


Pair of buffleheads, Ward Brothers


Bluewing teal, Mason Decoy Factory


Mallard, Ward Brothers


Robin snipe, Mason Decoy Factory


Shoveler hen, Cigar Daisey


Canada goose, Bob Brown


Miniature decorative lesser yellowlegs, Elmer Crowell


Pintail, Ira Hudson


Buffelhead, Elmer Crowell


"Humpback" pintail drake, Ward Brothers


Ruddy turnstone, Obediah Verity


"The Partridge Hunter," 19" x 25" watercolor,
Ogden Pleissner


Black duck, John Blair, Sr.


16" x 20" oil on canvas, Francis Lee Jacques


Pair of greenwing teal, Mason Decoy Factory


Pair of bluebills, Ward Brothers


Golden plover, Elmer Crowell


Preening black duck, Albert Laing


Canada goose, Harry Mitchell Shourds


"Evening at Mubulo," 24.5" x 19.5" oil on board,
George Browne


Swimming merganser, Elmer Crowell


"A Soft Mouth," 8.25" x 12.5" oil on board,
Arthur Tait


Bluebill, Nathan Cobb, Jr


Merganser, Mark English


Pair of mallards, Ward Brothers


Bufflehead, Mason Decoy factory


Pair of pintails, Ward Brothers


Gull, Pennell Alexander


Decorative tern, Elmer Crowell


Pintail, Leonard Pryor


Pair of widgeon, Ira Hudson


Canada goose, Ward Brothers


Canvasback, Elmer Crowell


Brant, Mason Decoy Factory


Canada goose, Eli Doughty


Ruddy duck, Baily Barco