CORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM & HERITAGE CENTER - 2021 WATERFOWL HERITAGE AUCTION

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If items cannot be picked up at the CSWM & HC on Sunday, DECEMBER 5  from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, then items can be picked up at the Core Sound Museum Store at 806 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC on Monday and Tuesday DEC. 6 and 7  from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day.  All items NOT be shipped must be picked up and paid for by Tuesday, DEC. 7, 2020.

Curt Salter was a member of the Original Seven carvers who went on to become the founders of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. Mr. Curt served as an inspiration and mentor to the next generation of Core Sound carvers, as evidenced by the naming of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild Headquarters the H. Curt Salter Building.

Bondo circle probably left from where it was held in place while the carver worked on it.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

One of Knotts Island's Waterfield renowned family of decoy carvers.

From the Collection of Don & Katie Morris, Atlantic, NC.

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Good shape. Unusual. Whole thing, including base, painted to look like a Scaup. Signed RJS on the bottom in ink or paint

Capt. Harry Jobes studied decoy carving and painting under the famed Havre de Grace, MD decoy carver R. Madison Mitchell.

John Keefer made traditional, hand-carved decoys in Maine.

"Curtis Waterfield, of Knott's Island, began his carving career by making working decoys. Since 1966, Curtis has been carving realistic birds and has won numerous awards for his work. Curtis teaches carving at many of the decoy shows." Waterfowl Heritage: North Carolina Decoys and Gunning Lore, Neal Conoley

James Holly and "Daddy" Holly decoys were brought in great numbers to the Carteret Gun & Rod Club located on Core Banks across from Davis and Stacy. They were often re-headed by local carvers such as Mitchell Fulcher.

Miles Hancock was born in 1887 and lived in Chincoteague, Virginia. He made brant, geese, black ducks, bluebills, canvasbacks, buffleheads, goldeneyes, red-breasted and hooded mergansers, and pintail decoys as well as some decorative carvings. He also made miniatures. His decoys were very inexpensive, serviceable and oversized. He made many of his decoys out of cottonwood. His biggest influence was Ira Hudson. They would work together. Hancock would carve the birds and then Hudson would paint them in order to stay on top of their commissions. There are several baldpates around that are carved by Hancock and painted by Hudson. Hancock died in 1974. --From The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art website

The resin inside of the wood used has leached out through time. It has reacted with the paint on the back (white) to develop a texture / patina that enhances the decoy. Has a circle of what looks like Bondo on the bottom. Probably used to stick on surface to hold decoy still while the carver worked on it.

The resin inside of the wood used has leached out through time. It has reacted with the the paint on the back (white) to develop a texture / patina that enhances the decoy. Has a circle of what looks like Bondo on the bottom. Probably used to stick on surface to hold decoy still while the carver worked on it.

The resin inside of the wood used has leached out through time. It has reacted with the paint on the back (white) to develop a texture / patina that enhances the decoy. Has a circle of what looks like Bondo on the bottom. Probably used to stick on surface to hold decoy still while the carver worked on it.

James Ray began carving in the late 1980s with the help of carvers in the community including David Lawrence.

Carteret County carver, winning several competitions during the early years of the Core Sound Decoy Festival.

A local carver, James Ray Pittman carved both decorative and working decoys.

Bird had damage on the tail feathers but was expertly repaired by Walter "Brother" Gaskill.

This pair of Canvasback was mounted on a set of lamps. "R. Madison Mitchell once said he just wanted to be a good funeral director and carve wood when things got slow. But it was the ducks and geese he fashioned in his spare time -- some of which fetched $10,000 -- that made him famous. Mr. Mitchell's decoys are showcased in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, but most of his work is immortalized in the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum. In the small house, tucked behind the family's funeral home business, were more ducks -- photos of them covering paneled walls, decoys lining shelves, stained-glass ducks, even a wind sock decorated with ducks. The man who would become the undisputed dean of decoy-carvers began carving as a hobby in 1924 when business was slow at the funeral home." --Excerpt taken from a January 15, 1993 Baltimore Sun article.

Joiner was a renowned decoy carver who began carving as a teen, working out of a small workshop behind the home of a grandparent. Later he came under the tutelage of R. Madison Mitchell (1901-1993), a highly regarded regional carver. In the late 1940s Joiner became acquainted with Steve (1895-1976) and Lem (1896-1984) Ward, with whom he became friends. Joiner would later observe that his style of carving and painting included a combination of Mitchell's and the Ward Brothers' styles. --Excerpt taken from the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art website.

Joiner was a renowned decoy carver who began carving as a teen, working out of a small workshop behind the home of a grandparent. Later he came under the tutelage of R. Madison Mitchell (1901-1993), a highly regarded regional carver. In the late 1940s Joiner became acquainted with Steve (1895-1976) and Lem (1896-1984) Ward, with whom he became friends. Joiner would later observe that his style of carving and painting included a combination of Mitchell's and the Ward Brothers' styles. --Excerpt taken from the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art website.

Decoy is full size and is signed by Jonathan on the bottom. Frame of the print has a small chip on one corner and is signed by Alan in the lower right corner.

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Wood crate used to house mortar shells without the fuse. It has a hinged-top with a lockable latch. The top has wire mesh inserts, probably lined with straw when the mortar shells were in it as there was straw residue inside. Stamped on the front under latch: "1315 935 (a symbol) 0140-C705 2 cartridge 4.2 inch HE M329A1 w/ Supply Charge w/o Fuse for Mortar M30 TNT"

Bag: Stamped in ink, both sides: Johnson Folding Goose Decoys. Contents: 12 Canada Geese with a photo pattern of Canada Geese stamped on them and impregnated with a wax coating. This set originally came with 12 stakes but they are missing. The bag has been wet and probably been stored for a while with one side facing up as one side is more faded than the other. Canada Goose decoys: 12 total (full set) Stakes used with them are missing and not included. All of the ink imprints / wax coating are damaged. Some have mold attacking the surface (turned white) Some have been spray painted. Some have the wood slat tail inserts left. One has "T Horner 548-41-9435" written in permanent marker on the inside. Of the 12: three have been spray painted; one is smaller than the rest; three have "hissing" posture heads, the rest are in an upright / sentinel posture; six still have the wood slat tail inserts. There was an old tag with "$10 ea. 3 / $25" written on it. (Originally part of the Purcell Jones Collection.

Known locally as "Brother,' Gaskill is one of Core Sound's most recognized contemporary decoy carvers with two second place finished in the Ward World Shooting Rig Competition at Ocean City, MD.

Known locally as "Brother,' Gaskill is one of Core Sound's most recognized contemporary decoy carvers with two second place finished in the Ward World Shooting Rig Competition at Ocean City, MD.

Dan, a native of Ocracoke, has a family connection to Eldon & Roy Willis and is a long-time participant at the Core Sound Decoy Festival.

Roy Willis was the 3rd Featured Carver at the Core Sound Decoy Festival in 1990. He was a prolific carver, hunter and avid collector of all things decoy related and beyond.

Eldon Willis was one of Stacy's most prolific carvers, father to Roy Willis.

Stacy legendary carving duo, Eldon Willis and Elmer Salter, helped give the Core Sound community of Stacy its standing as "the decoy capital of Core Sound."

Eldon & Elmer spent years carving together, sometimes selling decoys for as little as $2 each.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

Wayne Davis is the founding president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and was the driving force in building the foundation for what is now the Decoy Carvers Guild, the Core Sound Decoy Festival and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Wayne's hard work and tireless efforts led a small group of carvers and volunteers to create one of the most authentic decoy gatherings on the East Coast. He, along with his best friend David Lawrence, took all they had learned from places like Chincoteague and Currituck, and brought it home to Harkers Island where their vision grew to a movement of preserving waterfowling traditions and Down East culture.

Signed on the bottom: Curt Salter; Harkers Island, NC. Curt Salter was a member of the Original Seven carvers who went on to become the founders of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. Mr. Curt served as an inspiration and mentor to the next generation of Core Sound carvers, as evidenced by the naming of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild Headquarters the H. Curt Salter Building.

Signed on the bottom: Curt Salter; Harkers Island, NC. Curt Salter was a member of the Original Seven carvers who went on to become the founders of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. Mr. Curt served as an inspiration and mentor to the next generation of Core Sound carvers, as evidenced by the naming of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild Headquarters the H. Curt Salter Building.