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| Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Spanish Fork, Utah : Hillcrest Publications, c1984 Inscription to the museum by the author on half title page. | ||
| Wildlife in wood Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wildlife in wood Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published : Chillicothe, Ill. : Model Technology. Inscribed by the author "To Wendell Gilley, with best wishes to one of the pioneers in this field. We have all benefited from your efforts." | ||
| How to make working decoys Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| How to make working decoys Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: New York : Winchester Press. Page 69 is signed by Frank C. Wilson, a Massachusetts decoy carver who is featured in the book. Wilson's work was for sale in the Wendell Gilley Museum shop. | ||
| Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Southwest Harbor, Maine : Publisher's Northeast. Inscription to Nina Gormley by the author on title page. | ||
| Original Christmas card painted by Daisy Doane. Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Original Christmas card painted by Daisy Doane. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane ("Daisy") for her aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881 from which the window in St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor, was done. | |
| Catalog of Woodcarvings and other designs by Charles Savage 1918-1970 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Catalog of Woodcarvings and other designs by Charles Savage 1918-1970 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photographs and descriptions of the carvings of Charles K. Savage. | |||
| Game bird carving Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Game bird carving Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: New York : Winchester Press. Inscription to Wendell Gilley by the author on half title page. | ||
| Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2009. Inscription to Nina Gormley, Museum Director, by the author on half title page. | ||
| Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Janet Roberts ceramics Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Pottery, Collection of 3 clay pieces made on GCI by Janet Roberts, showing how local indigenous groups, might have made a cooking pot; a) proto-bottom showing the coiling of clay rope to form a surface, 2.5" diam; b) continuing spiraling the clay rope upwards to make a wall, and a part cut away to better show the construction, 3.5" diam x 2" H; c) smoothed, decorated, and fired final pot with incised chevrons near the mouth, raked on the body, also net-like impresses on the body, and a rounded bottom, 5.5" L, 4.25" diam, 0.5" thick [show more] | |||
| Drafting or drawing board ca. 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Drafting or drawing board ca. 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Equipment. Drafting or drawing board. Wood board with a wooden ruler-like guide that slides out for use in making straight edges. Small black ink stamp of a schooner under sail at top of guide, and "Tarbell G. W" written in pencil on the back of the guide. A larger black ink print of same schooner under sail with inked signature "G. Tarbell" stamped on front center of the drafting board. To right of schooner stamp, upside down in script pencil "Gridley & Tarbell"; many tack holes and some faint pencil marks on board including "October 12, 1926". [show more] | ||
| Carved wooden tree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Carved wooden tree Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Art, carved wooden fir tree, with branches shaved away from the trunk, made in one piece by Sam Chapman; separate square base; note taped on bottom of base "Sam Chapman Made This"; see also item 1302, also made by Sam Chapman. | |||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Bottom inscribed "Black Duck by W.H. Gilley. Made for Robert Kurtz." Dated 4/18/67. | ||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of carved wooden base marked: "Herring Gull by W. H. Gilley 1978" | ||
| American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; undated | |||
| Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "G. Winged Teal" and signed "by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base | |||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult bald eagle, approximately one-sixth life-size, sitting upright on small driftwood knot ; lead feet with talons realistically gripping the base ; undercut wing tips crossed over carved tail ; Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; marked "Hilda, Hulda Bragdon, Xmas 1973" on underside of base | ||
| Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum 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." | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of adult herons on roughly "x" shaped driftwood mount. On lower right arm of the "x" a heron in hunting posture is loosely mounted. On upper arm of the x, another heron is depicted in a guarding posture. Twin metal-strip crest, glass eyes, metal feet and legs realistically painted. Signed "Gilley" on top side of sand-finished oblong base, lower right. | |||
| Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Black-capped chickadee head down on branch. Artist's stamp on underside of carved oblong base | ||
| Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult on small driftwood base ; body appears to be "bobbing" downward ; tail swept up, wing tips folded over ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet ; body covered overall with finely incised lines. Signed, dated and marked "Semipalmated Plover (Lifesize) by W.H. Gilley, 1975" on underside of base. | ||
| Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult standing on weathered driftwood base, right leg retracted, neck slightly outstretched, head erect and looking ahead, bill curved slightly downward ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Signed on top of base near left foot: "Gilley" in felt tip pen ; also on underside, "Spotted Sandpiper by W.H. Gilley, 1979" | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. No date | |||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked "Made especially for Francis W. Rawle" and signed "by W.H. Gilley". |
