Summer Sale reaches $5.38 million!
The largest grossing company auction,
second only to the McCleery auction held
jointly with Sotheby's!
Portsmouth New Hampshire – With nearly 150 collectors in attendance and over 1000 watching worldwide, the Summer 2023 Guyette and Deeter auction was an offering not to be missed. With an appealing mix of waterfowl decoys, fine American art, quality American folk art, marine and sporting paintings, there were items for many interests.
The top lot and the highest price for a painting in the sale was an oil on canvas by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) for $480,000. Selling just a few lots later was a watercolor portrait of Charles Savage Homer Jr by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) for $360,000.
A great selection of quality American folk art was offered with the highest price of $144,000 achieved for a Henry Gudgell carved walking stick. $72,000 was the high mark for a 'leaner' cigar store trade figure by Thomas Brooks (1828-1895).
A very nice selection of quality decoys from the longtime collection of Russ and Karen Goldberger were offered with five lots from the collection bringing over $100,000. A beaver tail style pintail by the Ward Brothers was $120,000, an early rigmate pair of mergansers by Elmer Crowell, a rare ruddy turnstone by John Dilley , and the only know feeding dowitcher by Obediah Verity all reached $108,000. A plump, carved-wing, running plover by Elmer Crowell was the deal of the auction at $102,000.
20 items sold for over $50,000 and 107 brought $10,000 or more.
Josh Loewensteiner and Mary Tumbleson served as auctioneers.
Our next auction will be a Fine Sporting Arms sale September 11 and 12 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. The next Decoy and Sporting Art auction will feature the Dave Fannon collection and will take place on November 11 & 12 at the Country School, Easton, Maryland. Quality consignments are wanted for this auction and are being considered until Monday, September 4th.
"Mother Resting Her Cheek on Her Daughter's Blond Head," Mary Cassatt, oil on canvas, 18" x 15" |
"Charles Savage Homer, Jr," Winslow Homer, watercolor, 20.5" x 15" |
Important walking stick, Henry Gudgell |
Pintail drake, Ward Brothers
"Bleak Hills" George Bellows, oil on canvas, 16.5" x 24"
Feeding dowithcer, Obediah Verity
Running black bellied plover, Elmer Crowell
Cigar store trade sign, Thomas Brooks
"Eight Bells," etching, Winslow Homer, 19.5" x 25.5"
"Edge of the Woods," Charles Burchfield, watercolor, 11" x 17"
Turned head black bellied plover, Elmer Crowell
7' long model canoe, Chestnut Canoe Company
Auction record for a sample canoe
16" long bass fish decoy, Hans Janner
"Study for the Bath," Mary Cassatt, drypoint, 10.75" x 7.75"
Running curlew, Robert Andrews
World auction record for carver
Canada goose, George Warin
Black duck, Charles "Shang" Wheeler
Jesus Before Pilate plaque, Elijah Pierce
Red throated loon, Long Island, New York
Decorative flicker, Elmer Crowell
Whooping Crane, John James Audubon
Spread wing eagle, Joseph Romuald Bernier. 61" wingspan
Oversize merganser, Orlando Sylvester "Os" Bibber
Redhead, Lee Dudley
Fish decoy, a member of the Charbeneau family.
"Pipe, Tobacco, Books," John Frederick Peto, oil on canvas, 6" x 8.75"
Knot head canvasback, Ward Brothers
Bluewing teal, Mason Decoy Factory
Classic model bluebill, Nathan Rowley Horner
Fall of Man series, Edgar Tolson
Sanderling, Elmer Crowell
Bufflehead, Orel Leboeuf
Pintail, James Arlo Peters
World auction record for carver
Oil on canvas, Antonio Jacobsen, 13.5" x 21.25"
Full body copper steer weathervane, 39" long.
Pair of long tail ducks, Jim Schmiedlin
Oversize mallard, Bert Graves
Barber pole tobacconist trade sign
Canada goose, Mason Decoy Factory
Oil on canvas, James Renwick Brevoort, 13" x 23"
Pair of hooded mergansers, Arthur Tuell
World auction record for carver
Black duck, Elmer Crowell
Watercolor, Edmund Osthaus, 12" x 16"
Early trade sign from St. Louis, Missouri
"Croton on Hudson," John William Hill, watercolor, 11.5" x 16.5"
Loon, Cameron McIntyre
Carved and painted carousel horse, Gustav Dentzel
73" long wood shotgun trade sign
Large working gull, John Ramsay
Brown trout trophy fish, Hardy Brothers
Gadwall, Jett Brunet
"Below the Palisades," John William Hill, watercolor, 11" x 18.5"
Miniature great horned owl, Steve Weaver
Miniature hooded merganser, Elmer Crowell
Standing curlew, Frank Finney
Carved deer head with 10 point antlers
Six miniature gamebirds, James Ahearn
Folk carving of a revolutionary war soldier
Pair of red breasted mergansers, Elmer Crowell
Ruddy turnstone, John Dilley
Preening white-winged scoter, Gus Wilson
Canada goose, Ward Brothers
Bluebill, Ward Brothers
Rigmate pair of canvasbacks, Ivar Fernlund
Long-tailed duck, Joseph Lincoln
Pair of black ducks, Gus Wilson
Pintail drake, Charles Walker
Flying Canada goose weathervane, Elmer Crowell
Rigmate pair of American mergansers, Mason Decoy Factory
Bass fish decoy, Hans Janner
Canada goose, Dodge Decoy Factory
Pair of hooded mergansers, Al Weis
World auction record for carver
Decorative whimbrel, Elmer Crowell
Bluegill fish decoy, Hans Janner
Early heron decoy
Cigar store Indian trade sign, possibly Robb or Brooks
Golden plover, Elmer Crowell
Oil on canvas, James Bard
Dowitcher, Theodore Rogers rig
Decorative feeding kingfisher, Elmer Crowell
Cigar store trade sign, an East Coast maker
Red breaster merganser, George Huey
Atlantic salmon trophy fish, Hardy Brothers
Decorative bluejay, Elmer Crowell
Atlantic salmon trophy fish
Pair of half size mallards, Bert Graves
Rigmate pair of goldeneye, Sam Hutchins
Half size, wingup tern, Elmer Crowell
"Party of Thieves," Frank Finney
Three full size, flying woodducks, Josh Brewer
Racing jorse and jockey weathervane
"Comical Bust," cigar store trade sign, Samuel Robb
Oil on canvas used on 1924 cover of Hunting & Fishing Magazine
Harlequin duck, George May
"The Bahamas," Emile Albert Gruppe, oil on canvas, 19.5" x 23.5"
Sucker fish decoy, Charles Kellman
Rigmate pair mallards, Robert Elliston
Small red knot, Charles Clark
Group of six carved and painted animals, Fred Alten
Pair of Labrador ducks, William Gibian
Preening bluebill, Jim Schmiedlin
"Esopus Near Shokan," John William Hill, watercolor, 9.75" x 13.75"
Fish decoy, Charles Kellman
Pair of full size carved wooden whitetail fawns
Dowitcher from Accomack, Virginia
Greenwing teal, Richard Wilcoxen
World auction record for carver
Miniature preening godwith, Steve Weaver
High head canvasback, Billy Ellis
World auction record for carver
Miniature kingfisher, Steve Weaver
Preening ruddy duck, Jett Brunet
Oil on paper board, William Mathew Prior, 13.5" x 9.5"
Standing black duck, Grayson Chesser
