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| 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." | ||
| Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum Description: "Made for Len and Dianne with love" inscribed on underside of base | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum 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." | ||
| Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Athos and Sara Menaboni, published by Rinehart & Co. | ||
| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Ludlow Griscom, Alexander Sprunt, Jr. and other ornithologists of note. Illustrated by John Henry Dick. Published by The Devin-Adair Co. | ||
| American water and game birds. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| American water and game birds. Wendell Gilley Museum 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". | ||
| The art of wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds : a demonstration in color reproduction from The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, by permission. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds : a demonstration in color reproduction from The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, by permission. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Front cover signed "W. H. Gilley, S.W. Harbor, Maine". | |||
| A book of ducks. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| A book of ducks. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Penguin Books. Plates by Peter Shepheard. On cover: "A King Penguin Book." Endpaper signed "Wendell Gilley." | ||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of Canada geese on driftwood base ; "McInnes" written on underside of base ; stamped "1950" | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Slightly larger than miniature; male ; signed and dated "Gilley '57" on front top corner of driftwood base | ||
| Bald Eagle Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Columnist Wes Lawrence, visiting Southwest Harbor, writes about Wendell Gilley. Gilley's last name is misspelled "Gillie". | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Pintail Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pintail Drake Wendell Gilley Museum 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 | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum 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". | ||
| Downy Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downy Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Mallard Drake Box Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Box Wendell Gilley Museum 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). |