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Maine Antique Digest, May 2015 9-C
Copley bidding represen-
tative and full-time decoy
carver Ian McNair and his
wife, Becca, of Charlottes-
ville, Virginia, discussed a
circa 1900 hollow bluebill
attributed to Dan Bartlett
(1839-1936). The bluebill
sold with three other deco-
rative decoys for $360 (est.
$100/200). McNair said that
about 95% of the decoys in
the sale were going to col-
lectors who would never put
them in the water to shoot
over. McNair’s father, Mark,
attended the sale and had five
decoy lots in the sale. These
were not Mark McNair’s
consignments; they were his
carved decoys. Not shown,
his 1996 carving of a 19½"
merganser drake brought the
most, $2091 (est. $1200/1800).
Prunkl photo.
The seven bamboo fly rods by E. Everett Gar-
rison (1893-1976) included an 8' model 209
for $4500 (est. $300/600), a 7'9" model 206 for
$5100 (est. $800/1200), another 8' model 209
for $3900 (est. $300/600) and this 7½' model
204 (shown) for $6900 (est. $300/600).
Gary Siemer of Vintage Fly Fishing, Boulder,
Colorado, studied an 8'6" bamboo trout fly
rod by Harold S. “Pinky” Gillum (1896-1966).
At $5100 (est. $800/1200), the rod by Gillum
brought the second-highest price for a bamboo
rod in the sale. Prunkl photo.
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Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (British, 1819-1905) traveled to the United
States in 1850 and soon became one of Currier & Ives’s favorites. His
camping and woodland scenes were reproduced by the thousands.
Deer, a signed and dated (1872) oil on canvas, received an opening bid
from the phones and no one answered, so that bidder won for $36,000
(est. $35,000/45,000).
Two watercolors by Ogden
M. Pleissner (1905-1983)
were in the sale—North
Woods Camp ($13,200, est.
$18,000/24,000, not shown)
and Head of the Pool –
Fosse au Fer ($34,440,
est. $18,000/24,000). North
Woods Camp sold to the
phones, and Head of the
Pool – Fosse au Fer went to
an Internet bidder. During
the bidding for North
Woods Camp, a gentleman
behind me remarked, “He
[auctioneer Peter Cocco-
luto] gives phone bidders a
lot of time.”
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"Sunset Calm Off Ten Pound Island
Light, Gloucester"
by Mary Blood Mellen
(1819-1886), American
8⅛ x 12⅛ inch, oil on canvas, circa 1850