The Winter Sale 2014
Copley Fine Art Auctions had great success offering over 400 lots of American art, antique decoys, and sporting collectibles in Charleston, South Carolina. The auction landed within its estimate and resulted in over $1.7 million in sales to hundreds of different collectors, with approximately 88% of lots selling. The high end of the decoy collecting world was in evidence during the sale, as two McCleery Boyd mergansers both sold right in the middle of their estimates of $100/150,000. The hen fetched $138,000 and the drake crossed the block at $120,000. Both results surpassed the previous world record for the esteemed maker.
Outstanding Dowitcher Pair
Newton Dexter (1838-1901) and Dr. Clarence T. Gardner (1844-1907)
Little Compton, RI, c. 1885
Sold for $220,000
Ogden M. Pleissner
(1905-1983)
Southern Cabin, 1975
watercolor, 17 by 27 in.
Sold for $138,000
The McCleery Dilley Turnstone
John Dilley
Quogue, Long Island, NY, c. 1890
Sold for $96,000
Ogden M. Pleissner
(1905-1983)
Above the Falls, c. 1960
watercolor, 16 1/2 by 28 1/2 in.
Sold for $54,000