Click on the auctions below to view highlights from some of our past auctions. The prices realized for each auction is viewable by clicking on the corresponding price key.
2008
July 26 & 27 - 450+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Joe French, David Galliher, and Gene & Linda Kangas, Howard and Jean Wadell and the remainder of the collection of J. Creighton Riepe, Jr.,
Gross sales - $1,690,371.
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April 24 & 25 - 600+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of David Galliher, Lad Zidek, Joe French, Knute Bartrug, Howard & Jean Waddell, and Gene & Linda Kangas.
Gross sales - $3,568,599. This was the 5th highest grossing decoy auction ever.
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March 14 - Cash & Carry Auction, Westlake, Ohio. 173 lots, no absentee, phone or internet bidding. Held at the Ohio Decoy Carvers & Collectors Show.
Gross sales - $107,750.
January 18 - In conjunction with Christies of New York. Approximately 74 decoys in the begining of the sale.
Gross decoy sales - $892,000.
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2007
November 7 & 8 - 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Janet & Ed German, David Galliher, Bob & Pauline White, Steve & Lin Brown, Lars Crispin and Ida Ward Linton. Gross sales - $2,955,028.
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July 27 & 28 - 550+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Bob & Pauline White, Joe French, David Galliher, and Gene & Linda Kangas, also featuring the remainder of the finest collection of Lake Chautauqua fish decoys ever to come to auction. Gross sales - $3,556,735.
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April 26 & 27 - 650+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of Peter & Janet Van Trigt, Dr. John R. Ribic, Annie Cooper, and Gene & Linda Kangas.
Gross sales - $5,023,431. This was the 2nd highest grossing decoy auction ever.
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January 19 - In conjunction with Christies of New York. Features the folk art collection of Dr. Alvin E. Friedman-Kein. Approximately 80 decoys in the begining of the sale. Many of the decoys are pictured in the Adele Earnest books "Folk Art in America" and "The Art of the Decoy".
Gross decoy sales - $2,333,800.
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2006
November 8 & 9 - This was the 3rd highest grossing decoy auction ever. 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Janet & Ed German, Jack Conover, Henry E.I. Dupont II, and also featuring the decoys from the collection of William J. Mackey, Jr. by descent through the Mackey Family. Gross sales - $4,462,400.
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July 29 & 30 - 450+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Peter & Janet Van Trigt and Tom Fuller. Gross sales - $2,640,797.
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April 27 & 28 - 750+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of Alan and Elaine Haid, Jim Stewart, ted Murphy, Annie Cooper, and Tom Fuller.
Gross sales - $3,515,648.
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2005
November 9 & 10 - 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the F. Phillips Williamson collection. Gross sales - $2,011,169.
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July 30 & 31 - 650+ lots. Featuring decoys from the F. Phillips Williamson collection, Linda and Gene Kangas and ROn Adamson. Gross sales - $2,480,826.
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April 28 & 29 - 850+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of William Klein, William Towner, Phil Williamson, Ron Adamson and Joe French. Gross sales - $2,659,547.
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2004
November 10 & 11 - 900+ lots. Featuring the collections of William Towner, Reginald Wright, A. Lyman Parson, Frances Claro, Jim Lewis, Jr., and Tom Wetherell. Gross sales - $2,721,555.
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July 29 & 30 - 850 lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of Ron Adamson, Bowman Graton, Andi & David Fischer and Gus Knapp. Gross sales - $3,436,758.
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April 22 & 23 - This was the 3rd highest grossing decoy auction ever. 900+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of John Delph, Bill Staplin, Willaim Heaton, Ron Adamson, Harry V. Shourds III and Roy Paterson. Gross sales - $4,313,133.
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2003
November 12 & 13 - 900+ lots. Featuring the collections of William D. Cox, Chicago, IL & Thomasville, GA, Bill Staplin, SUmmit, NJ, William Heaton, Detroit, MI, and Laurie Jordan, Kentville, NS. Gross sales - 2,225,385.
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July 24 & 25 - 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collections of Ron Adamson, Jack McKay, Barton Blum and Harry W. Chesley, Jr. Gross sales - $1,457,643.
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April 24 & 25 - 750+ lots. Featuring decoys from the Collection of Bernard Crandell, Ron Adamson, and Gordon & Ginny Hayes. Gross sales - $1,262,048.
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January 18 - In conjunction with Christie's of New York. The Russell B. Aitken Collection of Wildfowl Decoys. World auction record preening pintail drake by Elmer Crowell sold for $801,500. Gross sales - $2,833,636.
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2002
November 6 & 7 - 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of George Combs, Jr., and the collection of Ralph Selby, Jr. Gross sales - $1,184,299.
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July 25 & 26 - 800+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Gordon and Ginny Hayes, William Hickey, and George Combs, Jr. Gross sales - $1,370,463.
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April 25 & 26 - 950+ lots. Collections of Bernard Crandell, Ron Adamson, Herman Votens, Ralph Selby, Jr., and decoys consigned directly by the Gromme family. Gross sales - $1,715,677.
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2001
November 7 & 8 - 800+ lots. Collections of Bernard Crandell. Gross sales - $1,216,637.
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July 26 & 27 - 900+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Bernard Crandell, Sr., Herman Votens, and Herbert Hancock. Gross sales - $1,751,535.
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April 26 & 27 - 900+ lots. Featuring decoys from the collections of Robert Mooree, Ron Bonati, Ron Adamson and Harold Emmett. Gross sales - $2,123,452.
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2000
January 22 & 23 - In conjunction with Sotheby's. The Distinguished Collection of Dr. James M. McCleery. World record auction. 600+ lots. Gross sales - $10,993,151.
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