Boston – -(Ammoland.com)- Copley’s Sporting Sale 2016 was a great success. The auction achieved $1.4 million in sales and saw an impressive 90% of lots sold.
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A small number of items are available for post-auction sale until August 19 2016. If you would like to view these items, click here.
To purchase an item, please contact us by phone at 617.536.0030 or by email at info@copleyart.com.
Copley Fine Arts 2016 Sporting Sale Highlights
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.
About Copley Fine Arts
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world’s leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Boston, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Copley’s bi-annual sales are the premier events for collectors of sporting art, decoys, fishing collectibles, and other related folk art. Quality objects start at $100 and range to over a million dollars. Visit : https://www.copleyart.com/