Guyette & Deeter To Hold Annual Spring Decoy and Sporting Art Auction

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- The world leading antique decoy auction firm, Guyette & Deeter, Inc., is holding a sale April 27 – 28, 2017 in St. Charles, Illinois, in conjunction with the North American Vintage Decoy & Sporting Collectibles Show. The show is the largest in North America.

This year’s sale, with an expected gross of over $2.5 million dollars, will provide buyers an opportunity to choose from just under 600 lots of investment quality decoys and related items including duck calls, sporting art, and fish decoys.

The auction will feature decoys from the collections of longtime decoy collectors Peter Brown, Bill & Carol Bender, William Berry & Pat Kalinsky, Gene Carr, Harold & Nancy O’Connor, Carl Olson, Maunsel & Ann Pearce, and Hank Thomas.

All geographic areas are well represented, but the strongest include Illinois River, Ontario, and Mason Decoy Factory.

Examples by most of North America’s top old time decoy makers will be included in the sale, including Elmer Crowell and Joseph Lincoln (Massachusetts), Gus Wilson (Maine), Shang Wheeler (Connecticut), Harry V. …Read the Rest

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