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The McCleery auction
Sotheby's and Guyette & Schmidt's auction
of Dr. James M. McCleery's collection

 
This historical auction commands a 16-page color spread in this issue! You'll enjoy reading the perspectives of buyers at the Sotheby's auction - this is an issue you won't want to miss. Take a look at the top 20 selling lots and you'll see why the excitement level was so high!

Top 20 Lots of the Sotheby's/Guyette & Schmidt Auction of the McCleery Decoy Collection
New York, NY, January 22-23, 2000


No. 1 Selling Decoy

Rank  Description (catalog no.)
Av. Est.
Price
*1.
A.E. Crowell (MA) preening Canada goose (66)
$450,000 $684,500
*2.
Lothrop Holmes (MA) ruddy turnstone (537)
100,000 470,000
*3.
William Bowman (ME/NY) long-billed curlew (207)
225,000 464,500
*4.
Mason Decoy Factory (MI) Premier wood duck (252)
275,000 354,500
 5.
William Bowman (ME/NY) nestled lesser yellowlegs (215) 
40,000 244,500
 6.
Unknown (MA/PA) Canada goose, mortised neck (437) 
250,000 233,500
 7.
A.E. Crowell (MA) wood duck (71) 
37,500  211,500
 8.
Harry V. Shourds (NJ) HC gull (387)
125,000  200,500
*9. 
Hucks Caines (SC) mallard (171) 
125,000  189,500
*10.
Obediah Verity (NY) feeding black-bellied plover (423)
30,000 156,500
 11.
John Blair Sr. (MD/PA) HC swimming mallard hen (2)
25,000 112,500
 11.
Unknown (MA) feeding long-billed dowitcher (305)
30,000 112,500
*13.
Gardner/Dexter (RI) HC dowitcher (541)
20,000 107,000
 14. 
Gardner/Dexter (RI) HC dowitcher (542) 
20,000 101,500
 14. 
Nathan Cobb Jr. (VA) HC belligerent brant (178)
90,000 101,500
 14. 
A.E. Crowell (MA) red-breasted merganser (74) 
40,000 101,500
*17. 
Luther Lee Nottingham (VA) Hudsonian curlew (34)
13,500 98,750
 18.
Lothrop Holmes (MA) black-bellied plover (540) 
16,500  96,000
*19.
George Boyd (NH) red-breasted merganser (149)
37,500 87,750
 19.
William Bowman (ME/NY) Hudsonian curlew (210)
100,000 87,750


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For the complete story, please see the Jan/Feb. 2000 issue of Decoy Magazine.

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