The Sporting Sale 2021
Copley’s Sporting Sale 2021 realized over $4.4 million in sales. The two-day, 507-lot auction, live-streamed on July 9 and 10, was 92% sold by lot and averaged over $9,500 per lot sold. The largest number of participants in the firm’s history filled both days with energetic bidding. The “Dust-Jacket” Black-Bellied Plover Trio by Elmer Crowell brought an impressive combined $984,000 total for the three.
Kankakee Pintail Drake
Herman R. Trinosky Rig (1874-1956)
Kankakee Marsh, IN, c. 1895
SOLD FOR $186,000
Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885)
Bob White Quail
oil on canvas, 19 ½ by 17 ¼ in.
SOLD FOR $90,000
The Bibber Long-Tailed Drake
Orlando "Os" Bibber (1882-1970)
South Harpswell, ME, c. 1910
SOLD FOR $150,000