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