What a bird brings
Type a maker and a species for the typical price of exactly that bird, or read down the chart to see where every maker's birds sell.
$2,670typical sale · 38 since 2023
A Ward Brothers canvasback has usually brought between $1,700 and $5,900 at Guyette & Deeter and Zebs Auctions since 2023, with original-paint birds at the top of that range. See all 38 sales →
Most birds sell inside this range (middle 80% of sales)A typical saleLog scale — each gridline is ten times the last
- Shang Wheeler10 sales · Connecticut$11,640$100,800$57,000
- Enoch Reindahl11 sales · Great Lakes$1,110$132,000$8,400
- Robert Elliston16 sales · Illinois River$885$33,000$5,700+206% vs last year
- Jim Schmiedlin21 sales · Other$3,360$10,200$5,400
- Elmer Crowell132 sales · Cape Cod$933$77,400$4,500+114% vs last year
- Cameron McIntyre48 sales · Eastern Shore$1,884$10,980$3,750+184% vs last year
- Charles Perdew24 sales · Illinois River$759$94,800$3,450+15% vs last year
- Ward Brothers191 sales · Eastern Shore$840$16,800$3,3000% vs last year
- Joseph Lincoln26 sales · Cape Cod$360$79,800$2,970+141% vs last year
- Chauncey Wheeler41 sales · Other$630$15,600$2,400
- Bert Graves30 sales · Illinois River$897$18,600$2,340-13% vs last year
- John R. Wells11 sales · Ontario$450$19,200$2,100
- Harvey Stevens10 sales · Other$648$28,680$1,920
- George Boyd41 sales · Other$960$3,360$1,800-50% vs last year
- Gus Wilson19 sales · Maine$594$5,040$1,800-25% vs last year
- Thomas Chambers17 sales · Ontario$552$4,800$1,560
- Frank Finney66 sales · Eastern Shore$585$7,200$1,5300% vs last year
- Mike Borrett28 sales · Great Lakes$470$2,790$1,530
- Bob White70 sales · New Jersey$510$3,300$1,500+14% vs last year
- Marty Hanson17 sales · Great Lakes$624$3,720$1,500
- Mark McNair61 sales · Eastern Shore$600$5,280$1,440-25% vs last year
- Oliver Lawson67 sales · Eastern Shore$660$5,040$1,4400% vs last year
- Ira Hudson77 sales · Eastern Shore$378$13,200$1,200+51% vs last year
- Bill Gibian52 sales · Eastern Shore$540$4,032$1,0800% vs last year
- Ken Anger32 sales · Ontario$363$5,310$1,005
- Mason Decoy Factory355 sales · Great Lakes$210$5,100$930+48% vs last year
- Cigar Daisey53 sales · Eastern Shore$425$2,064$870-26% vs last year
- John Daddy Holly11 sales · Chesapeake Bay$480$10,800$840
- Grayson Chesser40 sales · Eastern Shore$567$2,280$780
- Pete Peterson20 sales · Eastern Shore$297$1,464$765-4% vs last year
- Keith Mueller19 sales · Connecticut$408$1,944$750
- Keyes Chadwick23 sales · Cape Cod$342$2,100$750-69% vs last year
- Ben A. Heinemann18 sales · Other$420$1,320$720+4% vs last year
- Harry V. Shourds56 sales · New Jersey$210$6,420$720+26% vs last year
- Sean Sutton21 sales · New Jersey$570$960$720+2% vs last year
- Charlie Joiner109 sales · Chesapeake Bay$474$1,680$690+15% vs last year
- Doug Jester56 sales · Eastern Shore$204$4,950$675+2% vs last year
- Tom Schroeder18 sales · Great Lakes$402$5,940$675+7% vs last year
- David W. Nichol41 sales · Ontario$330$2,520$660
- Tom Matus14 sales · West Coast$283$891$630
- Corb Reed16 sales · Eastern Shore$315$1,365$615
- L. Torry Ward12 sales · Other$420$807$600
- George Strunk96 sales · New Jersey$279$1,440$570-32% vs last year
- Ben Schmidt69 sales · Great Lakes$330$2,580$540-50% vs last year
- John McLoughlin11 sales · New Jersey$300$810$510
- Miles Hancock75 sales · Eastern Shore$270$1,392$444
- Lloyd Tyler37 sales · Eastern Shore$154$3,288$420
- Roe Terry13 sales · Other$283$960$420
- Dodge Factory22 sales · Great Lakes$137$2,970$390-28% vs last year
- Evans Decoy Company14 sales · Great Lakes$135$3,210$390
- Reggie Birch39 sales · Eastern Shore$209$654$330-27% vs last year
- Dan Brown13 sales · Other$162$612$300
- Hurley Conklin13 sales · New Jersey$145$618$300
- R. Madison Mitchell143 sales · Chesapeake Bay$134$780$300-17% vs last year
- William Heverin20 sales · Chesapeake Bay$174$885$286-13% vs last year
- Bob McGaw27 sales · Chesapeake Bay$114$2,040$270-40% vs last year
- Jamie Hand13 sales · New Jersey$156$408$270
- Wildfowler Decoy Company19 sales · Connecticut$90$534$2700% vs last year
- Jim Pierce11 sales · Other$156$324$216
- Ken Harris18 sales · Other$72$318$195+103% vs last year
- Paul Gibson28 sales · Chesapeake Bay$87$300$160
- James Currier21 sales · Chesapeake Bay$60$468$133
Sales at American Sporting Auctions, GC Decoys, Guyette & Deeter and Zebs Auctions, last twelve months, buyer's premium included. Makers with fewer than 10 sales aren't shown. The one in ten above and below each bar are the exceptional birds and the rough ones. A change against last year needs 15 sales at both ends. How these numbers are made