The Sporting Sale 2022
On July 14 and 15, Copley Fine Art Auctions’ 17th-annual Sporting Sale brought over $3.1 million. This major two-day auction, consisting of 676 lots, was one of the company’s largest to date. The sale had a 95% sell-through rate, came close to cresting its $3.3 million high estimate, and set several new world records.
The top lot of this year’s Sporting Sale was the Harmon Hollow Nantucket Curlew, est. $150/250,000, which sold for $228,000, nearly doubling the previous world record for a Nantucket decoy. With the drop of that gavel, Copley added another 6-figure lot to the firm’s annual total, bringing the count to five. No other firm has sold a decoy for six figures in 2022.
