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.
"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
