Portsmouth, New Hampshire-Guyette & Schmidt,Inc, conducted their annual summer decoy auction on July 19 & 20.2011. the auction was held at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth. New Hampshire,.The auction grossed $1.5 million with 31 lots selling for over $10.000. As was the case in their April 2011 auction. prices remained steady. Top lot in the sale was a willet by Elmer Crowell of East Harwich. Massachusetts, which sold for $57.500. A very rare curfew by Walter Brady (Oyster.Virginia) sold for $48.875. Shorebird decoys brought strong prices throughout the sale. A black bellied plover by Daniel Lake Leeds sold for $20.800, a knott from Cobb Island,Virginia brought $25.875,a feedind yellow legs from Massachusetts brought $11.500 ,and a golden plover by Elmer Crowell sold for $13.800. A more detailed auction report is viewable on the Guyette & Schmidt ,Inc, website http://www.guyetteandschmidt.com/ The auction was accompanied by a 40 table decoy show with decoy dealers from all over the US.
Frank Schmidt, Gary Guyette and John Deeter assembled over 600 decoys and related items from collections and directly out of houses all over the United States and Canada.prices for Virginia decoys, Mason Factory decoys. decoratives by the Ward Brothers, and Maine decoys were particularly strong. The sale featured decoys from the collections of Don Clark. Betty Williford, Phil Williamson Richard Perkins.Herb hancock,Lynn Robertson,Harold Coe, Howard Wadell. and Jack Milne.
A significant increase in internet bidding was noted at the auction. Internet bidders usually bid on less expensive items at Guyette & Schmidt Inc, auctions but at this one they bid on multi-thousand dollar items as well resulting in over $87.000 in internet sales. At this auction Guyette & Schmidt ,Inc .used "live streaming' video of the sale on screen with their Artfact bidding.
Guyette and Schmidt ,Inc, established in 1984,is the world's largest decoy auction firm.They hold three auctions per year and have sold over $130.000.000 worth of decoys. Since 1989, Guyette & Schmidt Inc,has dominated the decoy auction field, leading by large margins in most of the statistical categories (see Decoy Magazine)by which auction houses are measured, in January 2000, Guyette & Schmidt .Inc,in a one -time partnership with Sotheby's,sold the decoy collection of Dr.James Mccleery for $11.000.000. In January 2007 Guyette &Schmidt,Inc, in conjunction with Christie's ,sold the Alvin Freidman-Kein Decoy Collection for $2.3 million, In the sale a merganser hen circa 1870 by Lothrop Holmes was sold for the current auction record for any decoy at $856,000
Guyette & Schmidt ,Inc's next decoy auction will be held on November 9 &10, at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton,Maryland. Consignment deadline for this auction is September 16. To view a preview of decoys that will be sold in this auction go to http://www.guyetteandschmidt.com/ The auction will be held in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival and have a 75 table decoy show.Another 100 vendors sell decoys in the parking lot, Guyette & Schmidt .Inc. provides free decoy appraisals to anyone sending a decoy photo and stamped ,self addressed envelope to Guyette & Schmidt .Inc, PO Box 1170 .St Michaels,MD 21663 Phone 410-745-0485, fax 410-745-0487, Frank Schmidt 207-625-8055,fax 207-625-4742,Email at decoys@guyetteandschmidt,com Guyette &Schmidt .Inc,also operates an online shopping site which features decoys in the $100-$1000 price range,visit http://www.decoysforsale.com/ Their retail gallery is located at 4 School Street in Freeport.Maine,(one block from L.L.Bean)
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