The Sporting Sale 2016
Copley's Sporting Sale 2016 was a great success with over $1.4 million in sales and a 90% sell-through rate. The top decoy lot was The McCleery-Holmes Plover, which sold for $144,000. A wigeon drake by John Blair Sr., brought $90,000, and the Konopasek-Graves Preening Mallard by Bert Graves and Catherine Elliston sold for $75,000. The top painting lot was Andrew Wyeth's watercolor, Terns on Little Green Island, Maine, which sold for $63,000, followed by A. B. Frost's Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons, which brought $57,000.
The McCleery-Holmes Plover
Lothrop Holmes
Sold for $144,000
Arthur B. Frost
(1859-1928)
Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons
Sold for $57,000
John Blair Sr. Widgeon Drake
Sold for $90,000
The Konopasek-Graves Preening Mallard
Bert Graves
Sold for $75,000