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| 1246 | Spotted sandpiper |
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| 1273 | Laughing Gull |
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| 1276 | Bald Eagle with Fish |
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| 1319 | Canada Goose |
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| 1320 | Canada Goose |
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| 1338 | Woodcock |
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| 1342 | Canada Goose |
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| 1357 | Ring-necked pheasant |
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| 1531 | Ruffed Grouse |
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| 1526 | Canada Geese |
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| Description: Pair of Canada geese on driftwood base ; "McInnes" written on underside of base ; stamped "1950" |
| 1524 | Ring-necked Pheasant |
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| Description: Slightly larger than miniature; male ; signed and dated "Gilley '57" on front top corner of driftwood base |
| 1614 | A book of ducks. |
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| Description: Published by Penguin Books. Plates by Peter Shepheard. On cover: "A King Penguin Book." Endpaper signed "Wendell Gilley." |
| 1617 | Birds : a demonstration in color reproduction from The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, by permission. |
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| Description: Front cover signed "W. H. Gilley, S.W. Harbor, Maine". |
| 1618 | The art of wood carving. |
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| Description: Published by D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. |
| 1619 | American water and game birds. |
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| Description: Silhouettes by Ugo Mochi. Photographs by Allan D. Cruikshank and others. Prepared in cooperation with the Chicago Natural History Museum. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Flyleaf inscribed : "To Wendell Gilley - May this book help a bit to inspire you to still more perfection in your art - Friend Billy B., 1956". |
| 1622 | The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Description: By Ludlow Griscom, Alexander Sprunt, Jr. and other ornithologists of note. Illustrated by John Henry Dick. Published by The Devin-Adair Co. |
| 1625 | Menaboni's birds |
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| Description: By Athos and Sara Menaboni, published by Rinehart & Co. |
| 1627 | Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland |
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| Description: By Richard H. Pough, color illustrations by Don Eckelberry, line drawings by Earl L. Poole. Maps on end papers. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Published by Doubleday & Co. First edition. |
| 1110 | Black Capped Chickadee, Pair |
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| Description: Two life-sized chickadees on a driftwood base, one hanging upside down on branch, one standing on bottom left of base; both have pin head eyes, wire legs, painted details. Signed and dated "Gilley '59" on left side of base. Bottom of base covered with grey felt. |
| 1046 | Black Duck |
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| Description: Miniature; mounted on carved, oblong, grey wood base, upright posture, head turned slightly left; glass eyes, carved feet, painted plumage. Signed "Gilley '59" on side of base. Marked and dated "Addie Gilley, Black Duck, 4/22/'59" on underside. |
| 1132 | Bald Eagle Plaque |
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| Description: Decorative flying eagle; clutching flagpole in left talon with attached banner:. "E Pluribus Unum" carved and painted decorative detail. Attached hanging wire. Signed "Wendell Gilley," marked "Addie Gilley" on back. |
| 1030 | Canada Goose |
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| Description: Miniature; 3-D feet, mounted on round, smooth wooden base, erect posture, faces forward; pinhead eyes, painted detail. Underside signed, dated, marked: "Gilley, '59. Addie Gilley." |
| 1058 | Pintail Drake |
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| Description: Miniature; mounted on driftwood, upright posture, preening breast - only one in this position in this size; glass eyes, molded feet, aluminium wing tips and tail. Signed "Gilley" on right of base, marked "Addie Gilley on underside of base. Carved out of pine-head separate piece |
| 1081 | Osprey with Flounder |
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| Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; perched on driftwood base, carved flounder under left talon, bird is hunched over prey, beak partially open; glass eyes, cast talons, painted, burned and carved detail, flounder unpainted. Unsigned. |
| 1275 | Black-capped Chickadee Pair |
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| Description: Two chickadees, near life size, on driftwood, both with glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail ; both upright, left chickadee has head down. Signed, dated on rear of base "Gilley '58". |
| 1169 | Ruffed Grouse |
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| Description: Miniature; adult male perched on yellow birch base, head erect, tail spread; glass eyes, metal feet, carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on lower left of base. |
| 1172 | Common Loon |
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| Description: Miniature; adult standing on driftwood base, neck bent, head turned left; glass eyes, metal feet, carved and painted detail. Signed on right of base. Partial felt bottom. |
| 1173 | Downy Woodpecker |
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| Description: Almost life size; male on driftwood "tree" attached to oblong sand-covered wooden base; glass eyes, wire feet, carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on side of driftwood. Felt bottom. |
| 1175 | Great Blue Heron, Pair |
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| Description: Miniatures; two adults on driftwood base, left heron stands with neck erect, right heron bent over; both with glass eyes, wire legs, metal crest feathers, carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on right front of base. |
| 1462 | Snowy Egret |
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| Description: Miniature adult on driftwood base stands erect, neck [?] back, head up, glass eyes, metal legs, feet, and crest feathers, painted details. Signed on lower right of base "Gilley." |
| 1316 | Little Blue Herons |
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| Description: Juvenile standing with wings raised on branch, adult standing on base ; signed "Gilley" on right rear corner of base ; no date |
| 1235 | Mallard Drake Box |
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| Description: Six-board pine box, lap-joined and nailed, with clear acrylic finish ; rounded-edge lift cover, carved underneath to set in box cavity. Five-inch long mallard is screw-mounted lengthwise in the center of cover ; has two curled lead-strip tail-curls, glass eyes. Marked "Made for Hilda and Hulda Bragdon" on underside of box. Signed "Made by Wendell Gilley" and dated 1950 (in a circle). |
1422 | Blue-winged Teal, Pair |
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| Description: Photograph of a pair of blue-winged teal carved by Wendell Gilley. Marked "Sec. of Treas. Robert Anderson 1958" on reverse. | |
1423 | Cinnamon Teal, Pair |
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| Description: Photograph of a pair of cinnamon (?) teal carved by Wendell Gilley. Marked "Sam Rayburn" on reverse. "1958" written in blue ballpoint lower right corner. | |
1552 | Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. |
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| Description: Letter from the founder of the Order of Demolay, Frank S. Land, instructing Wendell Gilley to choose and send carvings to Harry S. Truman, Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Leon Leonidoff, producer of Radio City Music Hall shows, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and White House aide Bernard Shanley. The cost of the five carvings was $250. | |
1557 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover |
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| Description: Letter typed on FBI letterhead and signed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in gold ink thanking Wendell Gilley for the gift of carved bobwhites sent on behalf of Frank S. Land. | |
1558 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight |
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| Description: Thank you letter from the Governor of California thanking Wendell Gilley for a carving of a quail, which he placed on his desk in the Governor's Mansion. | |
1559 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington |
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| Description: Letter typed on Kansas City Star letterhead from Executive Editor Clarence G. Wellington thanking Wendell Gilley for carved birds sent on behalf of Frank S. Land. | |
1577 | Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956 |
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| Description: Columnist Wes Lawrence, visiting Southwest Harbor, writes about Wendell Gilley. Gilley's last name is misspelled "Gillie". | |
1168 | Black Capped Chickadee, Pair |
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| Description: Almost life size; two chickadees on driftwood, both standing upright, left chickadee has head down; both with glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '58" on rear of base. | |
1232 | Wendell H. Gilley holding Official Seal of the State of Maine, 1955 |
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| Description: Wendell Gilley holding the carving of the Maine state seal he carved for the Northeast Harbor Public Library |