Guyette & Deeter, Inc. Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
November 10 & 11 2021
Easton, Maryland
www.guyetteanddeeter.com

EASTON, MD — Guyette & Deeter will conduct its next sporting art and decoy auction on November 10 and 11 at the Talbot County Community Center. The auction will feature prominent collections of rare decoys, original artwork and will be accompanied by a 50-table dealer show conducted in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival.
This will be the firm’s first decoy auction with a live audience since 2019. The sale will include items from the collections of Charlie Hunter III, D.C. North, Virginia and Jonathan Chua, Dr John Dinan, Dick and Lynn Gove, Henry Stansbury, Kirby Roberts, Lynnwood Herrington, Dr Preston Lowe, Steven Michaan, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Gene and Linda Kangas and Norma and John Gass.

Highlights from the collections in this sale include a pair of hollow carved Canada geese by Mandt Homme of Stoughton, Wisc. From the gunning rig of Dr Ansley Thomas Shearer these are the only known Canada goose decoys by Homme and have passed down in the Shearer family. This will be the first time these rare geese are offered for sale.
Additionally, the auction features rare Virginia and North Carolina decoys by Nineteenth Century carvers Eli Doughty, Nathan Cobb Jr, Lee Dudley, Ira Hudson and Captain Robert Andrews from the longtime Southern collector Charlie Hunter III. Decoys by brothers Lem and Steve Ward of Crisfield, Md., will include a pinch-breast pintail drake, a 1936 style Canada goose and a rare pair of decorative gadwall.
From the Midwest comes a selection of Ben Schmidt decoys, including rare species like gadwall and shoveler, a pair of mallards and a dove by Charlie Perdew. Also featured are a rare canvas field goose by Enoch Reindahl, a cocked and turned head mallard hen by Ferd Homme and a pair of blue wing teal by Otto Weinert.
For New England collectors, a yellowlegs by Lothrop Holmes, rare Canada goose by Charles Safford, sleeping black duck by Charles “Shang” Wheeler, a pair of mergansers by Keyes Chadwick and many carvings by the highly collectible and sought-after Elmer Crowell will cross the auction block.

Guyette & Deeter said it has seen strength in contemporary and decorative bird carvings over the last few years, and this sale will feature some of the best efforts by artists William Gibian of Onancock, Va., the late Jim Schmiedlin of Bradforwoods, Penn., and Ron Tepley of Racine, Wisc. Also being offered are works by Steve Weaver, Keith Mueller, Marty Hanson, Eddy Wozny, Mark McNair and Frank Finney.

A selection of sporting scenes by artists Edmond Osthaus, Frank Benson, Ogden Pleissner, Aiden Lassell Ripley, Robert Abbett, Chet Reneson, Alexander Pope, Francis Lee Jaques, Lynn Bogue Hunt, Howard Hill and Percival Rosseau will attract spirited bidding.

Several Peterson plaques, folk carvings and trade signs from other longtime collections will be offered publicly for the first time as well, including one of the most famous plaques ever carved, a flip tail trout grabbing a fly, with provenance.
A grouping of carved trophy fish from the Gene and Linda Kangas collection highlighted by three salmon by artist Thomas “Tommy” Bradshaw are sure to bring in bids from far and wide.

At the forefront of the folk art in the sale is a cigars store Princess trade figure, which graced the front of the Louisville, Ky., cigar and tobacco shop of John R. Rose for a century. Guyette & Deeter previously auctioned the figure to a West Coast collector for a then record price of $747,500. A nearly 20-inch-wide Native American burl bowl with carved handles, an early and rare set of four nesting baskets in original green paint and a 30-inch-tall gamecock weathervane in a pleasing verdigris surface will excite Americana buyers.
The Talbot Community Center is at 10028 Ocean Gateway. For information, 410-745-0485 or www.guyetteanddeeter.com.

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1. Cigar store princess, possibly the best in existence, attributed to the shop of Samuel Robb or Thomas Brooks, New York City. (300,000 – 600,000)
2. Oscar Peterson, important fish plaque. (50,000 – 70,000)
3. Edmund Osthaus, 28” x 36” oil on canvas. (60,000 – 90,000)
4. Elmer Crowell, pickerel carving. (25,000 – 35,000)
5. Oscar Peterson, 12.25” long brook trout. (25,000 – 35,000)
6. Mandt Homme, important Canada geese decoys (100,000 – 150,000 each)
7. Odd Fellows Lodge heart in hand staff. (4,000 – 6,000)
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Gary Guyette | 410-924-5678
gary@guyetteanddeeter.com
Jon Deeter | 440-610-1768
jdeeter@guyetteanddeeter.com